The Blue Board

It's Clemson, even when they have their best teams they are so incomplete. This year's iteration can not rush the passer nor does it have any experience in the secondary. Clemson will be vulnerable to all passing attacks.

Lol at citing holding LSU to 219 yards as proof that Venebles will improve the defense.

It's LSU for Christ sakes.

Losing Hopkin will hurt Clemson on offense.

Ellington was a big time running back too.

They also lose 3/4 of their starters in the SecOndary and their D-line
Is still inferior.

I guess they just have to beat FSU to win the conference and that is realistic given the changes at FSU and being played in Death Valley.

Being in the ACC screws Clemson in recruiting. The lack of conference prestige cripples any attempt at signing a bad arse 22+ man class. Even when they sign 4 five star guys the bottom 10 in their class should be going to Furman.

Gamecocks really......really.....shouldn't talk much trash. You've done nothing with your advantage.

It's been an advantage for about 5 years now. Only since the national title streak. And before that it probably hurt us because winning in a conference full of established programs was hard to do with our shit coaches. Everyone knows winning is the best recruiting tool and coming into a division with UGA,UF, and tenn make that difficult. Clemson and FSU were the only schools for a long time that prioritized football, so some would argue being a football school in an conference to win in is a big advantage.

Also, this is a rivalry and I will talk trash any year we win and right now that's 4 straight so get off your high horse.

I think Morris' O is a lot like Chip Kelly's was at Oregon: plug-and-play. It doesn't matter who's on the field, the O will be very good because of development.

The only unknown for Clemson in 2013 is the D. Venables has been very good in his career (he's 2-1 against Jimbo's O since 2010) but his success may depend more on player talent than Morris. I will be interesting to see the final 2013 D depth chart--I wouldn't be surprised if the secondary had 2+ underclassmen starting in the secondary.

I disagree a little here. While I think it will be good with other players, I don't think you can downplay Ellington, Watkins Hopkins, and Boyd. Those 4 are very very good, especially Boyd as I think he is easily what's making this system great right now. With solid protection his is very accurate and I don't think that production is just going to carryover when he's gone. I think the biggest key to string it is jamming receivers hard at the line. Hopkins didnt seem to mind it, but Watkins hasn't had a good game against us and supposedly it has to do with our CBs playing him physical. Disrupting the timing is huge and most teams want to play back off of Watkins because of his speed but IMO and I believe our coaches, that's not the way to play him. I'm interested to see how he does being the man again this year and if more teams decide to jam him.

Agreed, losing Hopkins and Ellington was huge

And they don't have Bellamy anymore so RB isn't very scary at all which is a first for them in almost 10 years

WR is still good but damn Hop was good, losing somebody like him always hurts

I agree here. I think clemson beats georgia, but this is finally the year the away team breaks through in the FSU/clemson game. Ellington and Hopkins especially are going to be big losses, because as I said Sammy, I think Sammy is going to get played differently/more physical this year and a team like FSU has the corners to do it effectively. That plus I see FSU again scoring as they please.

Haha we haven't gotten a kill shot on him, but he does get frustrated at the constant jamming because I don't think many teams play him like that. Against us, he's had 4-37 and 4-39 with no TDs and we didnt have great corners this year. Last year we had Gilmore. I would like to see that decleater. It'd probably change his life haha. I know Swearinger would've been happy to deliver this year but Hopkins got all the passes.

I know this won't seem sincere coming from a Clemson fan, but the majority of their fanbase would rather see a Clemson loss, and a Carolina win.

It's a really strange dynamic.

Everybody tries to say this about their rival and its not true of the majority of any fanbase.

Game isn't early

After 5 starts or so you aren't a newbie anymore