DS: How has the Internet changed recruiting? For instance, the way rumors can spread now, do you find yourself monitoring chat rooms and discussion boards to make sure nothing bad is being circulated about the team or one of your recruits?
As a coach, just as I am sure most every other college in the country and we had it at Pittsburgh, we monitor the internet as much as we can just to be sure what is out there. That doesn’t mean we sit at computers all day and read message boards. Our graduate assistants kind of monitor the internet for us. Every once and a while we got a few coaches that just go on and check when they hear things from graduate assistants. You need to know what is out there because we don’t own those sites and we don’t have anything to do with those sites.
But when a young man goes on those sites and reads what is on there he thinks a lot of it comes from us because it is a Clemson website. They think immediately it is tied to our athletic department and our football program and unfortunately that is not always the case. So you need to know what is out there a little bit. The other thing is people need to understand we are an age where people use computers and you are kidding yourself if you don’t believe these top recruits are not going on those boards to read what the fans are saying them and your program. Again, you need to know what is out there because you are going to hear about it from the kids you are recruiting.