Re: for me , it would be playing time and NFL prep and mentorship***

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Dec 1, 2024, 7:02 PM [ in reply to Re: for me , it would be playing time and NFL prep and mentorship*** ]

I want to attack this degree point first. We're a middle-tier state university academically. We probably are the best college in South Carolina (Yeah, I don't think Furman has any prestige outside the state). But you act like we're Harvard or Yale and that our degree is magically worth tons more than everyone else's. Choosing Clemson over other schools and turning down massive amounts of NIL money is absolutely insane. Our recent decommitments have chosen better schools academically whose degrees mean more (Duke, UNC, Michigan) and then also received hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so. How is that short-sighted? I'm a pretty highly-accomplished Clemson graduate. I'd do the same thing every single time.

As for your other points, I just don't get this thinking. (1) What makes you think we're any better at preparing players for the NFL than other programs? We've had very few players who have had extended success at the next level. (2) I don't know what "mentorship" means in this context and why you think we're leagues better than everyone else. (3) This idea of "developing a boy into a man" is just asinine. They're adults already. We have a bunch of scandals too. Our best player ever, Deshaun, had one of the biggest NFL scandals of the last 20 years. Sure, we don't actively recruit criminals like Georgia or Florida State, but I can't believe how pervasive this myth is that we only recruit golden children and then develop them into wonderful people. It's also illogical. Supposedly we only recruit the best people. So why do we have to develop them into men? (4) A degree from Clemson is fine and all, but players usually aren't in real majors, and they do take a bunch of crip courses.

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Cumulative factors, not just singular factors, represent the ‘Clemson FB program value proposition.’

This is not unlike a real world job. Money matters a lot, but the non-monetary factors are important considerations in why a sought-after applicant chooses one eager employer instead of another.

Clemson’s combination of ‘value variables’ such as Paw Journey, athletic facilities, stability of mentors (assistant coaches staying with Dabo), semi-rural environment, relatively safe community that is comfortable for visitors, good academic reputation, highly visible track record of former FB players finding meaningful employment in Clemson other than as position coaches, etc, are competitive advantages for Clemson in the opinions of some recruits.

We emphasize these factors and offer competitive … not the highest, but not embarrassingly low … money. We’ll keep getting enough highly regarded prospects to win big every few years or so.

Objectively , If i was a 5star recruit looking at my Clemson offer

for me , it would be playing time and NFL prep and mentorship***