Brownell haters

While we have certainly benefited from the transfer market over the past few years, that is not uncommon in college basketball today. You make it sound like we rely on transfers more than other schools, and that simply isn't true.

Our recruiting classes have been steadily improving, and this improvement coincides with the new facilities which were badly needed. Our class last year was very good, and our 2019 class will be as well. We are now getting mostly four star players with some high 3 star prospects mixed in as well. We have also been in it with some very highly touted 5 star players, narrowly missing out on them. Consistently signing four star players, who choose us over basketball programs with much more of a basketball history than we have, as well as being in the final group for several of the top prospects in the country, is uncharted waters for Clemson basketball. Give Brownell credit for that.

Oh, and let's not forget that we made the Sweet 16 last year, something we had not done in 20 years (and something we've only done a few times EVER).

This team is adjusting to life without Grantham and DeVoe, two very good players Brownell recruited and developed. Basketball season is long. While it would've been nice to beat Creighton and Nebraska, there is no shame in losing to them. Both are likely to be in the NCAA Tournament this year. We are likely to be there too, with continued improvement.

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If that is your obvious observation, then you obviously

Nov 28, 2018, 2:57 PM

either need to improve your reading comprehension or stop being judgmental. No matter who benefits from transfers for a couple of seasons, that is not a best practice to build a program. Star rankings of players are no guarantee of their collegiate success; Brownell's tenure is littered with 3 and 4 star transfers out and 3 and 4 stars that didn't compete night in and night out to earn NCAA tournament invites. No matter how many 5 stars you recruit, if you do not sign them, they mean nothing to the program; the caveat to those recent 5 stars is the fact that they were SC born and raised, so for me, that is a bigger indictment of recruiting failures that they would sign with Alabama, or Tennessee or Ole Miss or Auburn before signing with us. Signing with Duke, UK, unc UConn, or Villanova is understandable given recent tourney success for those programs, but Bama? Tenn, Ole Miss, Auburn??? I give those programs no more credit for history, tradition or recent success than Clemson, so those are recruiting battles we need to win, IMHO...

Also, we lost Grantham on Jan 20th, leaving a whole month and a half of the season to be played and the team did adjust to life without him, so our only true loss from last year is DeVoe (who literally only played up to his ability that one season). With that in mind, it appears that no one has stepped to fill that void because everyone else is back from that Sweet 16 appearance. Just as well, my concern is not just this season, but future seasons, which prompted the last few sentences of my comments; go back and read them and if your comprehension is working, you will see that I do follow the team... I actually follow it closer than you will ever know...

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Brownell haters

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No. They can voice their opinion.

How So

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nobody hates Brownell, some just want better success

You obviously don't follow our basketball team much.

If that is your obvious observation, then you obviously

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I think Brownlee sucks

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