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1st Team All-SEC
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![]() A small part is the environment. Mostly it's better coaching, playing tougher, being better prepared by playing better teams, and just wanting it more.
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Male Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Too far from home
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![]() When they come to Cola they're scared, when they are in Clemson, they get dizzy from the bus ride around the trailer park.
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#23 |
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Male Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Sumter
Posts: 4,168
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1st Team All-SEC
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Location: Sumter
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![]() How many bowl winners did Clemson beat last year? The ACC was like 3-6, and the only bowl winners they faced were FL St (kaboom) and an unranked 7-6 Syracuse who beat Minn. They had a good team, but their DL didn't measure up against top teams. Remember, in their signature win against Ohio St, they gave up 35 points to a team that lost the turnover battle 4-2.
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#26 |
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Male Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
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![]() My theory: We score more points because we are better than them.
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#27 |
Blue Chip
Female Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Florida
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![]() I think it is multiple reasons.
The SEC. We play hard games every week even with the bottom rung teams. On any Saturday, any team in the SEC can beat any team in the SEC. You cannot say that about the ACC. Physical Strength. The first three quarters of the game are always played close. By the fourth quarter, we've worn them out and put the game away. This also goes back to playing in the SEC, you must play all four quarters. Our athletes are in better shape. Coaching. We out coach them plain and simple. Steve Spurrier is on everyone's list as one of the best college football coaches ever. Ever. Dabo won Coach of the Year then went and got smoked in the Orange Bowl by the most points ever. Ever. And lastly and my favorite......Steve Spurrier is in Dabo's head. He owns Dabo's head ispo facto, he owns every player on the team. That stupid countdown clock isn't doing anyone any favors. |
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#28 |
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Location: Anderson
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![]() They may have caught up on DL, for this one year, but our OL is vastly superior to theirs. Not even close.
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Now, well now that we're winning in the SEC and, as you say, we're coming out of the league schedule with fewer injuries, more depth, and making mince meat of clem5on, their fans aren't ridiculing us anymore. In fact, if you go on their message boards after we beat them, they'll talk about how they want clem5on to be in the SEC, because this has made us tougher.
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#30 |
Yes we can!!!
Male Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Goose Creek
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![]() Opening at Georgia and traveling to Fla St. on week three, CU could easily be 1-2 when the 3-0 high heels arrive to dance in the valley (assuming they win at ECU - a lofty assumption). While da boy is Spurrier's boy, what I don't understand is how CU owns our nemesis Auburn.
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Tryon, NC
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![]() No doubt being able to recruit players who want to play in the best college football conference helps us in the recruiting wars. We are at least keeping on par with Clemson in the star systems and national recruiting rankings. Perhaps our coaches are also better at picking out players with potential. Something is working well in the recruiting area.
But if you made me pick a different factor that was also at work (besides the crowd issue I am sticking with), I would pick Craig Fitzgerald's conditioning program. Connolly has continued it. Clemson is still using an old fashioned S&C system, which gives us a great advantage over player development, including development of our depth. |
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#33 |
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Location: Anderson
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![]() I'm not sure we're better at creating body mass, I'd say we focus more on functional strength and conditioning.
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Male Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: nm
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1st Team All-SEC
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Location: Florence, SC
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#36 |
Banned
Male Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Appalachian Trail
Posts: 3,260
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![]() It's pretty simple IMO and I can answer the question in two words:
Clemson soft. I think it's pretty obvious why they are soft, but if you need further explanation... Their S&C consists of jumping jacks and jazzercise. Their schedule is 80% high school teams. |
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: South Carolina
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http://articles.elitefts.com/trainin...aining-method/ Here is a quote from the article, all credit goes to the articles.elitefts.com and Sabatini. Might explain all the knee injuries as well that we have :P " Sabatini: The most important aspect of Olympic weightlifting as it pertains to athletic performance is power specific force development or “speed strength.” Olympic style training involves “using heavy loads that are performed at a high velocity resulting in a high power output” (Hoffman, et al 2004). The term speed strength combines two very crucial attributes of athletic performance to express “power development.” An athlete’s power capacity includes “maximum strength, high load speed strength, low load speed strength, rate of force development, reactive strength, skill performance, and power endurance” (Hori & Stone 2004). Through the training of Olympic lifts, athletes can increase their speed strength. This is done specifically because “during the pull phase of the clean and snatch as well as the drive phase of the jerk athletes extend their hips, knees, and ankle joints to push against the ground as hard and as rapidly as possible producing acceleration on the body and the barbell, which is done remarkably similar to jumping” (Hori & Stone 2004). Also, functional core strength is developed due to the large amount of overhead activity and movements with high loads away from the body’s center of gravity. Different training methods are used to increase performance by becoming stronger and faster. Specifically, different sports require different demands. One sport may ask, “How strong?” Another may ask, “How fast?” However, in terms of Olympic weightlifting, the question becomes, “How fast are you strong?” " |
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#38 |
2nd Team All-American
Male Join Date: May 2007
Location: Anderson, SC
Posts: 9,397
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![]() I really think it is difference in league competition.
The ACC has become a spread, finese league...that is one reason why Florida State is dominating again..besides having superior talent, FSU plays a more physical game...the current FSU team could play in the SEC. Clemson on the other hand is the apex of what an ACC team is...quick, spread offense but isn't all that physical at the point of attack. I also think Ward has Morris figured out...and Venables has no idea how to stop Spurrier's offense. Better coaching, better prepared, better player development...that is why Carolina beat Clemson the last five years. Talent is actually pretty even, and in some positions, Clemson is better. But Clemson's staff has regular proven they can get 5-star guys but don't develop them. Carolina gets three-star guys and develops them and gets 5-star effort. Case in point, DJ Swearinger and Connor Shaw. Both 3-star guys, but outplayed 4 and 5-star guys at Clemson.
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#39 |
Bowl MVP
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![]() I think its a combination of rapid pace play calling from Chad Morris and our commitment to power running. The time of possession for the last few years has been in our favor, if the clemson offense isnt productive their defense gets worn our while ours rests. Its the same game plan every year and Clemson hasnt figured it out.
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Male Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Third Stone from the Sun
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