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A reality check for Clemson Football

Sep 5, 2023, 10:11 PM

Today, our overly-passionate fan base has shown it's usual divisions. While a vocal minority continues to don the orange-colored glasses, a growing majority on TNET is coming to a stark realization: our beloved Clemson football program is at a crossroads.

Last night's game was not just an isolated event but indicative of deeper issues that some of us have been observing and voicing. Does acknowledging this reality make us any less loyal to Clemson? Far from it. It's perhaps because we're deeply invested in its success that we can't ignore the red flags.

For two years, concerns about our RB recruits went unheeded by the pumpers. And while a 10-win season and an ACC championship are commendable achievements, they don't necessarily guarantee a promising future. The concerns many of us shared about the management of our DE, WR, LB, and RB rosters and the apparent lapses in WR and OL development and recruiting weren't pulled out of thin air. They were based on observations, stats, and patterns.

Yet, whenever these concerns were voiced, a certain segment of TNET dismissed them (you know who you are). To those who felt silenced or ridiculed for expressing genuine concerns—what you experienced was a classic case of gaslighting, a tactic to undermine someone's perspective, making them doubt their own observations.

It's time for an observation in reality. It's time to set aside the "sunshine pumping" and face the facts. By acknowledging the challenges head-on, we stand a better chance of navigating them and supporting our team.

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of our program or the outcome.

This persecution complex you have is beneath you. We're all equals here, none better than another. Just fans discussing our opinions with little, if any, influence on any of the decisions our coaches, AD or any Clemson officer makes.

You are welcome to doom and gloom your way through another season if that's what makes you happy but not being happy is no way to be happy.

I usually stay off the football bored during games and for at least a day or two after a loss. Emotions are high and I feel the pain as much as anyone. Lashing out isn't how I get relief from the pain of a loss.

I don't feel I need to punish anyone to relieve my discomfort from a loss. I don't look for someone to blame because I understand the emotions of losing a game and know that all I'm going to do if I lash out and point an accusatory finger at someone I'm just making a fool of myself.

A reality check for Clemson Football

Were just fanswe have no power to sway or make decisions

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Being a Clemson grad, myself. I have heard the same from

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That's the huge debate. It's more than one thing.***

My junior year at Clemson included serving as

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Exactly!

You talk as if we have any influence over the direction...

Thank you, OP has an inflated view of himself.

Dude, you're one pumpers who is the MOST annoying

I think you miss the point.

My criticism of anything to do with Clemson football

agreed....this program is at a crossroads

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