Re: TNET: Elite CB decommits from Clemson

Still can’t believe “decommit” is even a word.

I have faith in Dabo to turn this around but, right now the optics don't look good. Here is the problem I have with the whole situation....Brent Venables has every right to do what makes him happy and to do what he needs to do for himself and family, I have no problem with that.

Where I do have a problem is when he is out a recruiting all week to the end of that week telling these kids how great it is here at clemson and how he will mold him and were all in hear at clemson... blah...blah...blah.. and then a few days later he can't get out of town fast enough?? He knew while on that recruiting trip I think it was in texas that the Mrs. and boys were home packing getting ready to go to Oklahoma...

THATS WRONG!!! Should have been upfront and honest with DABO so that would have never happened!!! Brian Kelly did the same thing he was at a recruits home gorging himself eating 3 helping of homemade BBQ the dad prepared telling this kid and family all the wonderful things about ND, then gets a phone call while at the visit and leaves immediately. A few hours later the family see's a headline from Twitter that Kelley is the new HC at LSU....That's BS!!

This leaves a bad taste in these kids and their families mouth. I agree with DABO in the fact he don't like where college football is today and where its heading. These coaches again have the right to leave but, do it in an honorable and respectful way where it don't hurt the school you have just left. I guess that is just way too much to ask for in the world we live in today....everything is all about & centered around me...

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College football is big business which is sad because

Dec 10, 2021, 3:53 PM

you no longer go to a school because you like the school, it's offerings and it's opportunities as a whole but because it's what's the best road to the NFL. Not to be naïve- it's always had that flavor but what used to be a process which ended in the exchange of words between two honorable parties has become like making a reservation at a hotel years ago-it often would not cost you anything. However, if you cancel, you often deprive other guests that could have come the opportunity, and you took away business while the hotel overhead still goes on. You have every right to do so and things do change and come up. And hotels have often changed their policies. Mostly now, you at least put a deposit down which is non refundable if not cancelled within a certain time frame. It will cost you. That's just the way it is.

For a coach to pull an offer for no apparent reasons is almost unheard of. The PR would be a nightmare so it is a gate that does not swing both ways. Athletes can decommit (rather I was not committed in the first place) and if they don't like their playing time for any reason they transfer. There are cases where it absolutely makes sense for a student athlete so I'm not painting with too wide a brush.

Don't be surprised if at some point in the future the NCAA doesn't try to recapture the monster it has released. How? Who knows as it is likely to late in this day and time of touchy feely political correctness. We all knew this was coming. I just don't think we had any idea what it would really be like when it got here. We now have a revolving door business model which, reluctantly, we will have to join in. Like the AZ Diamondbacks did years ago, you go buy yourself a team for a year, win the World series, sell them off and enjoy the profits while painfully rebuilding. It's not a far stretch to see this current system evolving into that kind of scenario.

I guess it's a grieving process for a time where student athletes and a university could trust in each other(depending on the coach and we have the best) and had the word "team" as a real understanding. Now, it about "me" no matter what and again that's not counting those who transfer for a good reason.
This is just a wake up call to the reality of the present. I don't know what Saban does but we are about to see how our program stacks up. I do believe it will be every bit as good minus the fact that not many decommit from AL.

In all honesty, it's hard to feel objective when the school you love and support-which in my case has roots that go back into the late 40"s with family-and not feel resentment and anger. The process just spit in the face of the ideals Clemson has adhered to with few exceptions and so accordingly it becomes personal as it spit in your face as well.

As Tiger Woods once said in an interview about his nefarious behavior "It is what it is". Very true words but being the "what it is" exacted a high price. I suspect that the high price in the current situations has already had the beginnings of formulation in some minds which could be ugly and visible only behind the scenes. We have to remember these are just kids. Unfortunately the system can evolve, and arguably has, to where it no longer cares. The gate might not swing both ways but sadly the knife cuts on both sides.

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TNET: Elite CB decommits from Clemson