Monday November 02, 2009

Video: TDs and Interceptions vs. Coastal Carolina

Here are all the Clemson TDs and Defensive Interceptions from the Coastal Carolina Game on Halloween day 2009.

Subscribe!!

Sunday October 25, 2009

HD Video Highlights of Clemson's 40-37 OT win @ #10 Miami

Here are some video highlights from the Clemson Tigers' 40 - 37 OT win over the Miami Hurricanes.

CJ Spiller is the man! It's really unfortunate he's not getting the attention he deserves nationally. If the Heisman gurus want to change the award so that it goes to the best player on a top 5 team, then they should go ahead and do that. Until then, it's supposed to go to the most outstanding player in College football. That player is CJ Spiller.

Sorry for the poor HD quality. Still working out some kinks with the video. Still should be much better than SD video.

Subscribe!!

Tuesday October 20, 2009

Clemson vs WF game highlights

Clemson Tiger game highlights from their 38-3 win over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons from Oct 17, 2009.

Highlights include CJ Spiller's 36th and 37th career TDs at Clemson further proving he's the best player in College football regardless of ESPN's bias towards QBs.

Make sure you watch in HD

Sunday October 04, 2009

Video of CJ Spiller's 92 yard kickoff return for a TD vs Maryland

Video of CJ Spiller's 92 yard kickoff return for a TD vs Maryland

Sunday September 27, 2009

Thoughts from yesterday...

Clemson and the loss to TCU

Monday September 21, 2009

Clemson's win over Boston College Video highlights

video highlights of the Clemson Boston College game 2009

Sunday September 20, 2009

So Clemson fans, what do we know? (BC version)

Shoeless wrote some stuff about the BC game and the team...

Friday September 11, 2009

I almost hate to do it... some clips from the GT game

I know we lost the game but there were still and handful of clips that were worth another look. Unfortunately the outcome wasn't what we wanted. If you don't want to relive the outcome, don't watch the video.

The last clip is of the "holding" call. Feel free to argue about it to your hearts content.

Go Tigers, beat BC!

Check out my blog!
http://www.shoelessworks.com/blog/Blog.html
Subscribe!!

Thoughts after a tough loss...

CJ Spiller is a beast. If people kick to him they'll lose and if they do everything their power to stop him they might still lose! GT didn't win the game last night b/c Spiller was "contained", because he wasn't. It was good to see him go the whole game and still look fresh in the 4th quarter.

The holding call was bogus but it shouldn't have come down to that. 3rd and 1 from inside the GT 5 was more important to me than a holding call. Not because of the impact of the play individually but the statement that we could have made scoring a TD instead of being held to a FG. I'm in no way saying the holding call wasn't huge but, then again, we didn't get the call or the yard.

When's the last time a Clemson team went on the road and turned around a 20+ point deficit? Last one I can remember is a team coached by Ken Hatfield up in Virginia in 1992 but if I remember correctly, weren't the Tigers the favorite in that game? I like the poise this team showed. I like the fact that we weren't mentally beaten when the score was 24-0 and I like the way the team responded. I really felt like we were the better team after we turned it around.

I still don't think we know what kind of team we are just yet. We've played two teams in less than a week with two COMPLETELY different styles of play. One spreads out the field and throws the ball all over the place and the other likes to run option until you're bored to tears. I don't think we'll really know who we are until after next week when we play Boston College.

With that being said, I think we'll be "okay" this year. I think we'll have weeks where we're riding high and feel like we can't be beaten and other weeks where we are left scratching our heads. We're still young as a team. New coach, new coordinators, new QB, running a new system... there are going to be some ups and downs. I think, our best is in front of us and we are still right where we want to be even with a loss, in control with some confidence.

http://shoelessworks.com/blog/Blog.html
check out my blog and website!

Tuesday September 08, 2009

So Clemson fans, what do we know?

What can we say we "know" after our first game of the season?

We know Kyle Parker had a good first game as Clemson's starter. Unfortunately, we don't know what that will tell us on Thurs or for the rest of the season.

We know Willy Korn had a BAD game. We don't know if that means we should cross our fingers and hope he never sees the field again or just hope the next time he has a little better luck.

We know CJ Spiller looked great in limited action. We don't know if he'll be 100% before Thursday and/or if we should expect that type of play vs a higher quality team just yet.

We know our defense looked tenacious but won't really know what to think about them for a couple more weeks. GT's offense will force us to play a more assignment based and not free to attack as much. I don't think we'll really know where we stand defensively until after Boston College.

We know our offense has potential, what we don't know if how vanilla the package was we saw vs. GT. I am hoping that what we saw was only about 1% of what GT will see on Thursday night. I expect the offensive line is going to be our biggest question mark all season long and there's a good chance we'll lose games where our defense and special teams don't help out.

We know that something is different this year. Even if it's just the start of something new, the team just wasn't the same as in year's past. Coach Swinney once said something like, "We're going to make mistakes, we just need to make them at 100 miles and hour..." and I felt we did that on Saturday. I'm not saying that we should give him a lifetime contract right now but I do feel as though he's taken a step forward for the time being.

I know this could be a fun year... but I know that we've only played one game and we really don't know anything more about our team just yet.

Subscribe!!

Monday September 07, 2009

Clemson vs. MTSU game highlights

video highlights from the game on Saturday vs. MTSU

Thursday September 03, 2009

Give him the D### ball!!

So, I've seen/heard the arguments about Spiller and his Heisman campaign this year and with those points aside we still should have Spiller be the focal point of the offense (and return game).

What sounds reasonable? 20-25 touches a game? Probably. But how can we get Spiller his needed 25 touches? Easy actually.

Think about it. There are about 75 offensive plays per game and another 15 or more special teams plays (10 or more are punts and kickoffs) so depending on the type of game being played there can upwards as 100 chances for Spiller to get his hands on the ball.

EXAMPLES: In the Alabama game last season there were 48 offensive plays and 8 special team kick return plays... 56 total.

In the SC game there were 64 offensive plays and 9 special teams plays, 73 total.

In the Duke game there were 79 offensive plays and 12 special teams plays 91 total.

Yes, yes... I know, Spiller will never be on the field 100 times during a single game, even a blow out, but that's beyond the point. The point is that Spiller will be on the field 50+ times a game even when the offense is struggling and that's why we need to be creative.

There's more to a touch than a simple hand-off or screen pass. There should be more reverses that send him and Jacoby in motion. Utilize their speed. Even the wild-tiger offense, or whatever they want to call it, should be implemented occasionally but with more twists (IE passes, WRs as the backs and simple screens from the formation).

There are at least 10 different types of running plays in a game: dives, counters, tosses, draws, off tackles, weak sides, strong sides, options, zone runs, traps, reverses, etc etc. There's got to be a mix of these in a single game alone in order to ensure some success offensively.

Same thing goes with the passing game. How many different pass plays are there? 10..12...30... a lot! Why not put Spiller in the flat or even line him up as a WR once or twice a game to go along with the simple HB screens and scat routes out of the backfield? Even as a decoy he's got to be out there in different places. Teams are going to single him out and try to eliminate his touches which is why being creative will be a must.

Our home opener for instance. With no lack of respect for MTSU we should win this game and I hope we can win by more than 20. This is a game of vanilla offenses and defenses but should be a fine indicator of how Spiller is to get the ball in order for us to get the greatest efficiency out of him. CJ should get at least 15 carries, 5 passes thrown to and 5 punt returns without even trying to get him the ball extra times. There's 20 touches right there. Assuming the game stays close and CJ doesn't take 3 of these long distances for TDs that would be a good total for him in this game. This game isn't where Spiller will need to get his touches. Its games like GT, FSU and TCU where his touches will become more important... important for our team to have balance running the ball as well as who is getting the ball.

The Heisman campaign and the wins will come together, not separately. There won't be any 8-5 Heisman talk but there will if we can get to 10 wins and to an ACC title. It's no secret that getting Spiller the ball, into a flow and successfully will give us a better chance to win. That's one of the things our opponents will be focused on stopping as well.

In my opinion, there's got to be an average of 25 touches per game given to Spiller in BIG games if we are going to have any shot to win. This means a handful of things too. Not only would our biggest play-maker in history be given 25 shots per game to make something happen, it means that we are (hopefully) forcing punts and not kickoff returns, creating some running lanes and a rhythm on offense. It's quite simple really. Get into a rhythm, run the ball and play solid defense. Sounds like a good strategy to win huh? Just get CJ the D### ball and I think we can find that rhythm... on offense at least.

more blogs about movie reviews etc at my blog:
http://shoelessworks.com/blog/Blog.html

Monday August 31, 2009

Shoeless college football preview

A short look at the upcoming football season for Clemson, SC and the rest of the country.

Wednesday August 23, 2006

What you've got to look forward to from ShoelessCU!

A bit of a preview for what Shoeless will be offering this season. [Read More]

Posted by ShoelessCU @ 12:00 AM EDT