Friday February 10, 2012

Friday Email Bag

Friday Email Bag
Each Friday I publish your comments and answer your questions.  To submit a comment or questions please email me at mickeyplyler@hotmail.com.

Mickey,
What is the significance  of the number 23 on the jacket Danny Ford wore on the sidelines ?

Max

Max,
I heard there was no significance. I heard it was just an unclaimed number one year and the equipment manager just gave it too him. Maybe someone else has heard something more exciting.

Mickey,

David

David,
Thanks for sharing. I continue to hear the same type of stories about Randy. Thanks for adding to the story.

Mickey:
 
I read each and every one of your blogs posted on TigerNet.  I love it.  You are a true Tiger, but could you please use the spell check or proof read your work before pressing the Send button.  As a journalist, you owe it to yourself and your readers to spell words correctly.  Every other blog has a misspelled word.  The most recent was in the Randy Anderson piece.  You wrote his "wive and daughter".  Wive is not a word...wife is correct.  Again, I love your work and your passion for Clemson. Please just clean up your spelling.
 
I'm just saying...

Walt

Walt,
I know no one believes me but I read each blog four or five times before I put it up. I am not a good typist and have a ton of typos. But proofing your own writing is terribly difficult. I read it the way I meant it instead of the way it is written. It is something that a lot of people have a hard time with but I am the worst. My word processing software is the best offered on the iPad and it still misses so many words. I apologize. Believe me I wish I didn't have the issue.

Mickey,

Andy

Andy,
I despise both of those teams and can't make myself get excited about either. The shooting last night was great but the defense was awful. Duke is last in the league in field goal defense. UNC kept cutting under screens and gave up wide open looks. Give them credit for hitting open shots but the defense was atrocious.

Mickey,

Maestro

Maestro,
Swofford is a Tar Heel and will be a Tar Heel. That is where his loyalty lies. He would never lead a charge to give UNC any extra sanctions. He is not a fan of Clemson because he was tired of Clemson kicking the Tar Heels' butts every year in football. That is my opinion but me I am sure others will disagree.

Mickey,
Let me say first and foremost that I think Coach Brownell is doing a great job as our head coach, we are definitely heading in the right direction with him. Now as to why I am writing today. That interview with our AD was ridiculous! Did Terry Don Philips really call out the Clemson fan base as being "bandwagon" fans!?! Really!?!?! Clemson fans are hands down one of the, if not THE most loyal fan bases in the country and for this man to lay the blame out our feet is ridiculous. It is way, way, WAY past time for this guy to GO! Did he really say WE are the reason for Oliver Purnell leaving because of our "negativity", what?!?!! Must have been those "Are you down with OPP" t-shirts that everyone was wearing, that negativity, right??? What was his problem with he crowd the other night, the size, it is the middle of the week, what did he expect, we aren't UNC or Duke, we aren't gonna sell out a midweek game, GET A CLUE! From what I could tell from the TV it sounded like it was loud and behind the team until the end, what was negative about the Clemson fans!?!?! In case TDP has been asleep, which apparently , he has, we haven't exactly been bringing in the championship trophies recently but they sure haven't stopped asking for MORE money! So this is how he expects to get people to donate more, calling them out as negative and bandwagon!?!! Shut up Terry Don and do Clemson a favor and resign, you are a disgrace! Am I wrong, Mickey, am I off base? Because after watching us get hammered on national tv in the orange bowl I sure as heck don't want to hear my AD call me out as being "negative" and "bandwagon"!

Steve

Steve,
I think Terry Don has gotten much better in the past year. He saw that his job was being evaluated and has since picked it up. However, the one thing a coach or AD can't do is criticize the fan base. That is something I am sure doesn't mean. He needs the fan base.

Mickey, 

A.B.

A.B.,
I have followed this expansion thing closely for a couple of years. I have talked to everyone I know to talk to but still have no idea of what will really happen. Tony Barnhart of CBS said it best when he said, "On this subject, you can be 100 percent right and breakfast and 100 percent wrong at lunch." I don't think anyone really knows where it is headed.

Mickey,
I really enjoy your radio broadcast when I am in the upstate, unfortunately I have been working in Charleston for the last year and a half and really miss the 104.9 broadcasts. I took off last Friday and learned the new line up on WCCP did not include Dan Scott show anymore. I know he got the new job at Furman. Is this the reason he isn’t in the new line up or was his show just cut from the line up due to lack of sponsorship?
 
The next question I have concerns your expertise and that’s recruiting. I know Clemson tried to get Keith Marshall and Todd Gurley in this year’s class and both of them signed with UGA which really puzzled me why Gurley went after Marshall had committed with the Stable they have down there. Had Ellington not come back for his senior year we would be hurting at RB and could be anyways if he has another injury plagued year. Do you think Clemson will put Zac Brooks at RB since we are short at the position and please expand on who you think Dabo and Chad will target in next years signing class at the RB position.

Thanks Mickey and I really enjoy your blogs as well!
 
Brett

Brett,
Our general manager made the decision to make a change but I am not sure of what he considered in his evaluation. I am not part of management and have no input.

Behind Ellington is Bellamy, Howard, McDowell and Brooks. Bellamy is the wildcard. He can be as good as any back in the league one day but he still has work to do on the field and off. Howard is solid. Brooks will have a transition to make but this spring will help. He is a terrific athlete but has never seen a college reactive field yet.

So far Clemson has offered Wayne Gallman of Loganville, Tyshon Dye of Elberton, Peyton Barber of Alpharetta and Tyren Jones of Marietta in Georgia.

In North Carolina they have offered Marquez Grayson of Lexington and T.J. Logan of Greensboro.

Clemson as not offered a running back from South Carolina yet.

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