New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
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New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 2:21 PM
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 2:30 PM
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Obviously, this Belk boy doesn’t have what it takes to be a CLEMSON MAN!
‘Nuff said.
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 2:37 PM
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that's a very quick and uninformative reaction.
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 4:32 PM
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Isn't a healthy amount of skepticism warranted here? Now accuse me of being a hopeless skeptic, and you may be right, but this doesn't pass the smell test. Some large money has changed hands hers. And, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the same dude to whom which (grammar??) I referred to in a previous post as being dreadfully slow. If I'm wrong, you can "fillip me on a three-man beadle." I don't think that his absence from our program will make a whit of difference. Other opinions sought and welcomed.
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dude, why such an insult towards the kid?
May 17, 2018, 3:15 PM
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it takes more than athletic skills to be a Clemson Man, and it appears that Dabo recognized those qualities in the "boy", as you want to call him, and granted an unconditional release... I believe that if Dabo did not see a truthful, upstanding "man" making a decision that truly affects the rest of his life, terms and conditions of his release would apply...
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Re: dude, why such an insult towards the kid?
May 17, 2018, 4:38 PM
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Whoa!! Show me one place where I referred to this young man as "boy." Go ahead and do it. You can't. We can disagree on this site without making up crap about each other.
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you lost track of your replies, mine was not a reply to you
May 17, 2018, 4:43 PM
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but to a poster ahead of you... so, your apology is accepted in advance... LOL
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Re: you lost track of your replies, mine was not a reply to you
May 17, 2018, 11:20 PM
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You really are a KNUCKlehead, aren’t you? A CLEMSON MAN has INTEGRITY!!!
...and despite your characterization of Belk as “truthful” in this matter, there is clearly more & more FACTS surfacing to the contrary.
The comment about this Belk boy is no slur, but definitely a statement regarding his maturity level at this point. Hopefully, he will grow up into a man of integrity and maybe this process will help him see how he could be more forthright with people who through great effort and expense have put their confidence in him.
We all sympathize with those who are experiencing health issues among close family members, which none of us are exempt from...but there were other undisclosed factors at play and had been ongoing for a long time.
Therein lies the problem
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Rivals ranked him as the #21 DT, not number 21 overall
May 17, 2018, 2:32 PM
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@David Hood, Very important distinction. He wasn't even in the Rivals 250.. I was hoping he'd prove them wrong, but now I don't really care one way or the other.
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things like.. the coots tricking you into thinking you won't
May 17, 2018, 2:37 PM
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sit out a year?
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Re: things like.. the coots tricking you into thinking you won't
May 17, 2018, 2:42 PM
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If he goes to USuC and he probably will he could get a hardship letter from the NCAA because of family health issues and not have to sit out a year.
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there are a number of hurdles that have to be cleared
May 17, 2018, 3:40 PM
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hope this kid was not sold a false bill of goods by UCS coaches thinking it was a done deal if that is the angle being pursued which it sounds like
some of which include- has to be immediate family(no grandparent, uncle, aunt), has to be life threatening, have to provide dr records xrays etc., diagnosis has to have been since your initial decision- there are others-- distance moving back home may not be enough
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Re: there are a number of hurdles that have to be cleared
May 17, 2018, 4:41 PM
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Has he signed with Carolina? If so, this stinks to high heaven.
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 2:40 PM
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USuC and Tennessee have already contacted him? Sounds like a violation to me. I don't believe they are able to contact a player for another team until he has been released. Also, if it's all about his family problem why would he even mention Tennessee. That would be a lot further drive than Clemson. Some things are not adding up. I'm guessing it's time to move on and prepare to show him that he better carry a fire extinguisher with him to that Dumpster fire in Cola. Go Tigers!
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 3:41 PM
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Maybe his family likes to get drunk and throw bottles at the players during the game. He would have to transfer to and SEC school (or NC State) so they could get away with that.
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I Always Heard
May 18, 2018, 10:14 AM
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that if something doesn't "smell" right on the surface, it really stinks when you dig into it. I'd bet that is the case here, too. Whatever, I wish him well, and if he chooses to be a coot, then that will be his loss. We will be just fine. If there really is some bad illness, I hope that gets better. Anyway, Clemson will be just fine.
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Odd******
May 17, 2018, 2:40 PM
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Re: Odd******
May 17, 2018, 3:26 PM
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^^^^ Very!!!
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Re: Odd******
May 17, 2018, 11:25 PM
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My first reaction was naturally that something was amiss. Then the health stuff came up and if it is true and his family needs him then I support him and Dabo completely for letting him go. However, the TN stuff throws that into the wind a bit - except, I've not heard he responded them - can't blame him if they contacted him out of the blue. SC....well are they just trying to cash in off his family problem or were there backdoor deals???? On the field, TigerNet is correct I believe - he wasn't likely to be a major contributor this year anyway so he could have easily been redshirted and given plenty of time to deal with his family issues - certainly not the first time one of our guys has been given time to take care of family matters. Not to disrespect his family matters but I'm guessing there is more than meets the eye here...
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Re: Odd******
May 18, 2018, 10:16 AM
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This!
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 2:47 PM
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#21
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This^^
May 17, 2018, 8:34 PM
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X1000
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Yep. I know I’ve moved on. Next man up!***
May 17, 2018, 3:09 PM
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Re: Yep. I know I’ve moved on. Next man up!***
May 17, 2018, 3:17 PM
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You mean the "family issues" will go away if he plays somewhere else? Very strange.
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 3:17 PM
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If everything is on the up and up, why not just say what happened? Part of me thinks since Dabo is ok with it, I should be too, but then I think maybe some SC alum attorney got involved to skirt the rules and create a financial incentive for the family. This event seems like the kind of thing that will dog Josh Belk the rest of his time in football unless he clarifies exactly what transpired to cause the transfer. Or, maybe its none of our business...
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 3:29 PM
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The Lawyer thingy is becoming to be unclear!!!
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 6:50 PM
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Your points are spot on. He does owe Clemson an explanation as he has received considerable benefit. A plain spoken explanation from Mr. Belk is the only way to remove the cloud, even if he was asked to leave the team by Dabo (which I don't know and have no reason to believe.)
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 3:23 PM
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Unless there is something in this transfer thing with Belk that ain't clean, any school further away from his home than Clemson was, they shouldn't be an option for him. Now if he ends up at a school as far away or further away than Clemson, then about everything in this now story is as dirty as can be!!!
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 3:34 PM
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Got to be or it’s no need to even mention Tennessee.
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Re: New Story: Josh Belk on leaving Clemson: "Things just happen and you have to move on"
May 17, 2018, 3:37 PM
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Just let it be. Plenty more talent out there chomping at the bit to wear orange.
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Hope this doesn’t turn into another jake fruhmorgen story***
May 17, 2018, 3:44 PM
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too late***
May 17, 2018, 3:47 PM
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Not that just more or less bouncing from school to school***
May 17, 2018, 5:01 PM
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I was giving him credit wanting to be close to a sick mother
May 17, 2018, 3:52 PM
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until he mentioned Tennessee.
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I said yesterday in the other thread that I think there's
May 17, 2018, 4:03 PM
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more to this than just his mother being sick, and now I'm convinced there is. My rationale yesterday centered around the whole attorney thing. There was no reason to get an attorney unless his reasoning wasn't sound. There's not a coach in America that would've worked with him more than Dabo with regard to his mother being critically ill. Dabo knows first hand what family issues are like for a young man. Dabo granted the unconditional release, but I'm leaning to the reason being, if the kid doesn't want to be at Clemson, no sense allowing it to fester and become a cancer to the team. I'm not buying it was simply because his mother is sick. He wouldn't be that much further from home in Clemson than he would be in Columbia.
I hate it because he was going to be a really good player at a position of need starting in 2019. Oh, well. Next...
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Re: I said yesterday in the other thread that I think there's
May 17, 2018, 4:20 PM
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Amen brother.Sick momma is BS. He thought about transferring to South Carolina because he wanted to be close to the home? Then he mentions contacting Tennessee? Last time I checked Knoxville was a lot further away than Clemson. He might be a beast but if you got issues Hit the Road Jack.
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Doesn't add up. But I wish him well.
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