Clemson Football

Okay I told myself that I wasn’t going to talk about Clemson football when I found out that we had a free write but my how that changed in the after math of the Virginia Tech game.

All of us guys in the apartment took it pretty hard when we lost to Georgia Tech. There were so many mistakes in that game but most of them we could chalk up to the team just having a bad day. We were all convinced that after losing to a team like Georgia Tech, who is of obvious lesser talent, we would bounce back the next week at home and be able to take on a struggling Virginia Tech offense. The truth is that we did handle the Virginia Tech offense very well I thought our defense did an amazing job, but it was yet again out special teams that was the reason behind our debacle. This is now the second year in a row where our special teams, a team that plays a limited role on the field, has been so bad that it actually costs us wins. Even so, nothing has been done to find a coach that can get the job done. Bowden last year took control of the special teams and still couldn’t get the job done and yet we are in the middle of a new season and Bowden still thinks he can do it himself or that the offense will score so many points that it won’t matter what the special teams does.

What makes me angrier than anything is that we have so much talent on this team and players that work their tails off but from my point of view it has been the coaching decisions that have been so costly. From placing way too much confidence in the running game to just plain horrible play calling. Although I can’t pretend to know everything that the coaches know and why they make some of the decisions that they do, I do know that what is happening with the special teams for the second year in a row is just plain stupidity. One returned kick/punt for a touchdown is enough for maybe five games, but three in one game like in our game Saturday is inexcusable.

There are so many issues that need to be addressed but of course we play crap teams for the next couple of weeks and we will win with ease and Bowden will be able to say that the problems have been addressed. Then we get to Boston College and South Carolina where our skills are actually tested and we will see more of the same domination that we have witnessed for the past two weeks. All I can say is that this offseason, unless we get an amazing recruiting class, will be a long one for Coach Bowden.