People really need to read the Greg Marshall interview

Mar 19, 2015, 2:47 AM

And listen to the Cliff Ellis interview!

Get a coaches perspective

Coach K even lectured the Clemson fan base on what it would take for Clemson to move up in basketball.
And it didn’t involve hiring a new coach. It was about support for the team.

Much like we always criticize other ACC schools for not giving a D**** about their football programs.

Even if we did look for another coach (which I am not for), a big name or hot prospect is not going to come to Clemson because of the lack of support from fans & administration. 5 former coaches in the dance & not one would come back to Clemson. And OP was not one of them (I Like OP)

The same can be said about top recruits. People say coach needs to recruit better, but when recruits visit they see an empty arena and fan websites that have nothing but football in the middle of B-Ball season. Makes for a hard sale.

If just 1 out 10 of the fans that show up for football would show up for B-Ball it make a difference in both W & L and also recruiting. They were basically giving away Tix and free hotdogs & cokes to students.

H3ll, Gamecocks win 1 football game in 2 years, (not to mention decades of average teams) but they still packed the stadium. Yeah, they may have left by halftime, but they still showed up. What did it get them? An administration that wanted to please the fanbase and a coach that saw and appreciated the enthusiasm, then recruits and turned the program around. just saying

I am as disappointed & frustrated about this season as anyone, but I feel our best players are returning and will be better next year. I want to stay with Coach Brownell and hopefully after he gets things turned around he will stay with us, rather than bolting to another school. We need to stop the new coach every 4-5 years. I hope Coach brings the success we all want and then everyone should want him to stay a long time. Same as the football staff

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Bowden had a 60% win percentage through 2004. 2004 was statistically Bowden's worst year and his winning percentage at that time was lower than football's overall winning percentage. The WEZ allowed us to upgrade facilities and training abilities for players. Recruiting followed. And Dabo is riding/driving that wave. (Another history lesson, the south upper deck was added after we went 2-9 and 3-6-2. 4 seasons later we had a National Championship)

Oliver Purnell had a "brand new renovated" Littlejohn when he started and we actually got some athletes. Those plans actually started when Shyatt was having the ACC play in game named after him.

Brownell just had one of his worst years but his winning percentage is statistically higher than basketball overall. But yet, him thinking that we need an upgrade in facilities is somehow an excuse for a subpar season.

So facilities upgrades have been proven to energize programs at Clemson. For some reason we as a fan base are proactive with making sure that football never falls behind again. But for other sports we demand a return in the form of wins BEFORE we make the investment in the programs. Maybe we are content with being a football only school. But if that is the case then we can't complain about wins and losses and want to fire coaches doing mediocre jobs if we are only giving lipservice support as fans and administrators.

People really need to read the Greg Marshall interview

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leadership matters

I completely disagree. Barnes won games

not sure if you watched s othwr teams but

Re: People really need to read the Greg Marshall interview

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^^exactly

We broke ground on the WEZ after Bowdens worst year

This is a tired and untrue argument based upon a false

In the good times, support is very good...

Said someone that was not around in the Rick Barnes years

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