Wall st journal article about CU football

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The writer's tone and opinions are a little off-putting...

Oct 18, 2013, 9:44 AM

...because there IS an ounce of truth to what he's saying. When you look at the numbers, the won-loss records against traditional powers, etc., we are not among the "elite" powers. I think most of us know that, but definitely have a hard time admitting it.

The era that he refers to, 1992-2008, is important because that's when college football exploded, thanks to media & cable TV. College football's popularity has a ton to do with the information age, and that's when we were as mediocre as ever. Except for the older fans and Clemson fans, most people don't remember the national title or our success during the 1980s. And, when you take that period away, we were a very pedestrian program save for a few big years.

Up here, people are casual college football fans at best. I've gotten a ton of snide comments about Clemson from people I don't know, usually referring to how Clemson isn't an elite power and is never going to win a national title. As the writer says, we see ourselves much differently than most of the country does. I think most people know we have potential and we have our good years, but we aren't a perennial power. Until now, that's been true for the last three decades, unfortunately. Dabo is changing that.

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to be one of the top 25 or 20 football programs of all time. We have the most unique tradition in college football, as well as other long standing traditions. We have 13 ACC titles, a national title, 5th winningest program of the 80s. From 77 thru 92 we were a top 20 program that could beat anyone. The '59 Sugar Bowl is still considered an all time classic, we had Heisman, Frank Howard was a legend, Ford is the youngest to win a national title (or darn close and youngest in modern football), the Woody Hayes incident, and more. We are a tiny town 4 hours from the huge population of the coast, yet have over 80,000 at games and consistently rank in the top 12 in attendance.

Anyone that thinks Clemson is not a true football school with a rich history is out to lunch.

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Think it was a metaphor, but we do have reflection pond***

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The writer's tone and opinions are a little off-putting...

John Heisman laid one of the first building blocks,

Just finish that #### oculus***

They need to do a better job at fact checking***

No doubt. That article was completely riddled with factual

I kind of feel like I just read a middle school book report

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You can obviously tell the guy hasn't a clue

Typical yankee Duke grad. Unknowledgeable of college

IMO this is a very interesting article since we are biased..

There was zero context. We had Heisman, should have won

It's almost stunning to be agreeing with you. +1.***

Good points lightbulbbill***

Nice to get attention, but the journalist isn't very

We are in every poll I've ever seen universally considered

Although I prefer yards of pragmaticism rather than inches

I thought it was pretty spot on

He was talking about out entire history and he had factual

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