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Bill Connelly's Appalachian State Preview

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Clemson plays Appalachian State on September 12. Bill provides a great preview that you should check out. A couple highlights: they should be better than Wake Forest and Syracuse (my opinion) and he projects Clemson at a ranking of 14.

South Carolina hires Brian Williams

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Williams brought in to improve Gamecock athletics history

Clemson moves forward with Football Center

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From the Post & Courier, The Clemson University BOT gave the green light for a massive new Football Complex to be built out where the Football Practice fields are located. This will help reduce the shuttling of players for practices, and give the team as a whole a one use location for all it's purposes. Currently, there is no word yet on how this affects the West End Zone upgrades or what that area will be re-purposed for.

Under the Radar, Clemson is Succeeding

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From the Duke Basketbal Report (an SBNation affiliate site), the DBR staff looks into who has been the most consistent programs in the conference over the last 5 years. You'll be surprised who turns up at #4. Hint, they've got some really good looking purple uniforms

ACC Football Schedule

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Per ACC.com, It's back! The 2015 football season has finally begun, with the announcement of the conference schedule. Clemson will open it's ACC schedule in week 3, on a Thursday night vs Louisville. Here are some quick notes regarding the Tigers schedule for the year: The bye week is early this season, the 4th week of the year. Tough 3 week home stretch starting at week 5, Notre Dame, GT, then BC FSU is on Novemeber 7th. Circle Your calendars Go Tigers!

Pre-NSD All ACC Recruit team

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Hi everyone. I recently put together a pre-NSD ACC Recruit All Star team(based on the 247 composite ratings). Clemson has really made some noise the last couple of months and looks to finish strong.

Accused Howard's Rock vandal faces 10-20 years in prison

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Charges have been upgraded against the North Carolina man charged in connection with the 2013 vandalism of Howard's Rock.

Jeff Scott Profiled by the WWL

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Thought you guys might like to see this piece. Its got some interesting stories.

Clemson Reportedly Lands Mark Fields

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Tiger Net is reporting that Mark Fields is committing to Clemson. A big get for us and rounds out the class nicely.

True Freshmen Quarterbacks

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Here's an old (2013) article from SBNation that evaluates the likelihood of a true freshman quarterback being even league average. Spoiler alert: from 2008-2013 only 27 true freshmen have attempted 100 passes, only 8 were above average based on an efficiency rating (130). Mr. Watson beat the 100 mark with 137 attempts and 93 completions, resulting in an efficiency rating of 188.6 per ESPN. That puts him in very elite company. While next year is very promising with Deshaun, the backup QB's may be true freshmen. Expecting even league average play isn't exactly fair. Clemson could face another year with Jekyll and Hyde QB play.