Like saying the only thing Beamer is disappointed in was the chain gang eating hot dogs?? That clearly wasn't the only thing he's disappointed in.
Dabo in denial
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Which is why I brought it up. Beamer's was a muddled comment but the exact line was : "Clock was wrong the whole damn game, we’re trying to kick an onside kick to start the second half and we’ve got to wait on the chain crew cause they’re eating a hot dog. That’s the only disappointing thing about tonight. So I don’t know what things came out to be statistically, but not good enough.”
It's a bad sound bite and certainly can be made to sound as if the only thing he was disappointed in from the game was the chain gang eating hot dogs. It's the problem with social media and 24 hour new cycles. One line is taken out of context, blasted on social media and that becomes the narrative.
The same thing done with that comment is being done with Dabo's comment. OBVIOUSLY, nobody could possibly think that was the only thing Beamer was disappointed about from the game. Equally as obvious, nobody actually thinks Dabo mean his team's overall effort was good enough.
It was a screwy game. I don’t remember ever seeing a team get twenty nine first downs and only seven points
Indeed. Clemson had 12 more 1st downs, had 50 more yards, held the ball for 7 minutes longer and only had 1 penalty for 5 yards (compared to 7 for 45 for Duke). They did lose the turnover battle 3 to 2.
If you were just shown that line, you'd assume they probably won. Dabo's comments are not entirely without merit. They lost because they shot themselves in the foot. But, good teams don't shoot themselves in the foot like that.
Dabo was also asked about a path to the playoffs following the loss and he responded with: "I’m just trying to win this next game. That’s the only path I want to do. I think you just put your head down. If we had won this game tonight, there’s nothing different – we gotta go win this week. So, this is college football, man. Anything can happen, right. But ain’t nothing going to happen if you don’t correct some of the things that you did tonight. So, we just need to focus on just trying to win a game, and let’s go from there. We know we get 12 opportunities to play, and we get what we earn after that. So, just gotta keep moving forward.”
From the totality of his comments, he was clearly not predicting Clemson to win out.
From the totality of his comments, he was clearly not predicting Clemson to win out.
I know he didn't predict to win out. They're establishing a trend of having games where they say "we should have won but....". Fine for message board fodder...not for the HC. But it's becoming a trend. They dominated the stat sheet against UT (more than against Duke), but only scored 14 and lost by 17. Had more first downs than us, a MUCH better 3rd down conversion rate, and destroyed us in the running game. But lost. Offense only scored 23 points.
Cuse threw a pick at the goal line with 30 seconds left in the game to lose by 6. Clem destroyed the stat line. Based on the stat sheet, clem should have had backups in the game in the 4th.
I just think he's an idiot for feeding a thought process that's been plaguing his team's performance for a while now. But Beamer got mad b/c the chain gang was eating hot dogs while he's trying to plan for an on side kick.
That is a legitimate observation.
DJ whatever his last name is coming off looking pretty good right now.
This is a pretty good write up. The author's first point is what I'm saying. At some point, those mistakes ARE your team....not an anomaly.
