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We got a big star here.
It's Will Vandivort from the Clemson Insider.

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He's also covering the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He's get a plug in for that all.

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Yeah. The guy is just he's
rocking and rolling coming, I believe

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on northbound from the ACC meetings in
the springtime. Will, How you doing,

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buddy? Is the ACC back there? Falling in the ditch? What's

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happening? Yeah, it's uh,
it's just coming back now from from Amia

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Island down there. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was. It

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was really uh beautiful down there for
the last two days. The first day

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was raining like crazy. Yeah,
but that cleared up yesterday and we have

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a pretty good couple of days there. But yeah, a lot of work

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and you know, a lot of
peoplen't understand when we go to these.

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When you go to the spring meetings, it's not like going to media day.

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Media day. Everything's set up for
you. They bring the coaches and

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players to you and the administrators and
all that. You know, it's was

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all formal and everything. This is
a very informal event. So they're there

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to meet and figure out what's going
on and how they're gonna fix things.

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They're not about They don't really care
about us the media, so you're on

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your own. You got to be
a U. You got to be a

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good reporter and understand how to go
talk to people and yeah and uh,

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you know, and how to find
stories because they're just not gonna come up

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to you. Hey, will let
me tell you this. You know they're

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not to work. So they Now, they did set up a press conference

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with Jim Phillips, I should say
a press gathering. Yeah, with Jim

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Phillips. There's about twelve of us
that were there. They set that up

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for us so we could get with
him kind of go over everything there at

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the end of the spring meeting.
So that was nice of Amy yourfolo with

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the A scy to do that for
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it, you know, you got
to walk around and you got to grab

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the coaches when they wanted. The
coaches do not have to talk to you,

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is not required, but most do. Most are real nice. I

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won't tell you the one coach who
told me, no, who's the nicest,

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Now, don't say dad, that
will leave dabble out of It's like

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when Herbstere doesn't take a game,
who's the so man, Dabo was great.

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Man. Dabo like we got there
and we we texted Dabo as a

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coach, can we talk to you? And and Dabo's like, man,

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I'll be down there in a few
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there and he gave us a one
on one And the same thing with Brad.

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Brad did the same thing for us
coaching Poppy the same and talk with

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Clemson's former Clemson office score out of
now Virginia coach Tony Elliott. Yep,

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yeah, I taught to taught to
Dan Radkovich obviously taught the Graham neft the

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athlete. What a reunion. Yeah, you forget how many you know with

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Miami, the connections there are now
Virginia. It is you just it actually

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just speaks to the Clemson program and
how so many players and coaches and ads

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have gone on to other places.
It's fascinating. It is so a lot,

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a lot lot went on, got
a lot of stuff came out of

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it. I think the biggest news, probably to me is uh obviously Clemson

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Florida State is the is the is
the hot topic that people want to talk

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about. Also the n cua A
settlement, So those are the kind of

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the main topic talking waits for everybody
the last couple of days. And you

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know, uh, today we talked
to Jim Phillips and he talked about Clemson

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and Florida State and how you know, A, you know, there's no

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animosity, they're they're they're they're still
a member of the a CEC. We're

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gonna help them out just like we
would anybody else. You know, they're

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not paying attention to the lawsuit.
But then he says it's a difficult and

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uh, it's a it's a difficult
and awkward situation basically is what he says

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after that. So you know,
you get you get two ways about it.

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But he did talk about how though
that you know, they're hoping,

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he's hopeful that maybe the two sides
can come to an agreement and maybe get

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somehow get Clemson the Flora State back
on back on the fold with the acc

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But you know, that's his hope. Don't know if that's realistic because he

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also talked about how the the revenue
sharing, how they're behind the other two

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conferences even though they're trying to close
that gap, ye, but there's still

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just way behind. And then you're
throwing the college football playoff thing that happened

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now a couple of months ago,
and now how the ACC is making eight

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to nine million dollars less than everybody
else than those other two conferences. You

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know, he knows that's not good
for the conference, and that's part of

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the problem and why the why Clemson
and Florida State are wanting now it's not

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the whole reason. It's a big
part of it. Obviously, there's so

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many moving parts. It really comes
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money. And that's that's what drives
this. It's the revenue, and it's

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it's the way the world, and
there's so many millions, if not eventually

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billions. It's stay here across the
landscape of college football, not to mention

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in the landscape of nil that probably
needs a little tidying up in some reform,

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but they we are where we are
and will. On that note,

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I don't know if you're a video
gamer or not, but even if you're

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not, you got to be excited
to see a cover of a college football

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game back on the map. Although
I think there was a Clemson helmet on

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the cover, but no jersey.
I would assume that's club Nick, but

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uh Ea, sports is back in
the college football business. My friend.

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Yeah, I'm I am a gamer
when it comes to sports games. I

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am, yeah, have been.
I am from the generation where video games

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were invented. I'm sorry, Jim
Zers, but you guys did not create

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the video game craze. Thank you. Look at I'm with you. We

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were the Atari people, television,
pong, whole position, you know.

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Uh, and then and we gradually
graduated to uh the Nintendo Entertainment system,

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where we played a great game called
football, and then we played golf and

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then duck hunting. Yes, yes, so basically just sitting Uh yeah,

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we're the we're the mid generation,
and we're trying to teach these young whipper

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snappers like Falco. We had this
question the other day. We were talking

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video games, sports games, and
it was interesting to see the wide array

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of like generations he called in.
But I'm with you, man. Hey,

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let's move on to the draft.
Clemson had themselves a nice couple of

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days there, and look, I'm
fascinated to see how Nate Wiggins gels with

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this Baltimore defense. And I can
tell you this, and you know this

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well, the reporting would indicating you
reported on this Dabo was calling Eric the

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coostin John Harmon, saying, you
got a draft Wiggins. You got a

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draft Wiggins. How about Dabbo working
the phones? And how about Wiggins running

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at forty time going to that Baltimore
defense. I know you're a Steeler fan.

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You got to give him a hat
tip. He's playing with Trenton Simpson

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now right. I'm not happy about
that at all. Yes, I set

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it up beautifully. I ain't dow
it. I mean I'm mad. I'm

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mad at Dabo doing that. I
mean, what the hell, Davia Let

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him follow somebody else. I don't
want to see Wiggins, answers Simpson of

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you twice a year, you know, I mean, probably tried to call

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Tomlin, but Tomlin rolled another way
with offensive home. I say it tongue

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in cheek, obviously happy for the
young man that he's getting to go live

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his dream and play in the NFL, and Wiggins is gonna be a great

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one. I hate that he's playing
for the Ravens because I'll never be able

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to perform. All these are going
to your division rivals now, all of

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them. Yeah, you know,
it's just like you know, uh with

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te Higgins over Cincinnati and when DJ
Reader was there, you know, you

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know it is what it is,
you know, shn Watson. I wish

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them all the best. I wish
them all the best of luck, but

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at the same time, you know, I hope they lose every game,

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you know, so good luck and
lose out that's right. But well the

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draft for Clemson, though, I
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I had to say it was Rooke
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thirty four to the thirty five to
the Falcons. I thought the Falcons reached

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too early there. I think they
could have got rook at number forty three

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and not traded away a draft,
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I thought that was a reach because
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their guy, he was gonna be
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anybody else will. I thought it
Atlanta. Look objectively, I know draft

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grades are kind of nonsense. They
just received like the most F plus incomplete

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of all time because I don't know
what they're doing. They Rooke should have

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been top forty, top forty five, but they should have gone off our

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defensive line edge rusher early. They
draft Pinnicks. They give Kirk Cousins in

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advance of that almost two hundred million
dollars. What are they doing? Bro?

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They're gonna get a great player in
him and he's just don't get me

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wrong, but they could have saved
trade value. I'm not going to get

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him absolutely going anywhere. He'll be
a great player, but they gave up

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stuff to unnecessarily get him. Yeah, exactly. That's what was kind of

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surprised me about it. You know, I love that Jeremiah Trotter's playing for

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Philadelphia. If a Pallas perfect Oh
that was a great moment. Huh how

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about that? You know his dad
and then the pictures that's gonna be.

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I hope he makes it. I
mean, he's got he's got add a

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little bit of bulk. He's got
to get a little quicker. But dude,

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you saw him play at Clemson.
He's got the tools. Will Van

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never joins us here? Hey,
when you look at the Clemson program right

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now, obviously there's talk with David
Kloneger, your counterpart yesterday from the Posting

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Courier, and there's changes every year. You know that there's a lot of

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talk about, you know, Clemson
not going to the portal. I mean,

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yawn, we understand that's how it
is down there, and people just

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need to understand that's how it's going
to be. Can this team challenge for

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a top four, a top eight? Can they be a tournament team as

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it's structured coming up here? Can
they win the ac C? Is it

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too early to tell? What are
the biggest question marks you have about this

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team? Yeah, Dabo talked to
us about it over at spring meetings.

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You know, he's kind of like, I think in a way, you

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know, he's kind of like,
these people are saying that Clempson can't win

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anymore and Clemson's falling apart and all
this all because they don't go to the

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transfer portal and because they don't use
nil to entice recruits. And Dabo was

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like, you know, that's a
bunch of bull mallarchy, you know,

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to him, he you know,
he feels like he feels like, you

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know, you could still win at
a high level. And he said he

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thinks they got the team. This
the team they've been working towards this year.

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They they've had them, He's had
now a lot of these guys for

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a couple of years. They developed
them that they're they're Clemson players, They're

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part of the Clemson culture. He
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can challenge and do some things,
and he kind of anxious to see what

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they can do. And he's kind
of tired of people saying, hey,

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Clemson's falling off because they don't know
to the transfer of portal and you know

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that. And I can see his
point, you know, because I do

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think what some people forget. And
I'm not yeah, I'm not making the

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excuses, but I think some people
forget with Clemson and why Clemson has dropped

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a little bit. I think people
forget about how much COVID affected Clemson.

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And I know there's people out there
saying, oh, well, COVID affected

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everybody. No, it didn't not
everybody because it didn't affect Ohio State,

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it doesn't affect Georgia, it doesn't
affect Michigan or Notre Dame or Alabama.

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It affects Clemson because Clemton is a
very small place, very small town,

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and it's it's one of those places
where when you're trying to get the top

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recruits that in sorry, you gotta
at Clemson, you gotta you gotta bring

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them to Clemson. You do.
And so there was there was two years

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where Clemson was not able to bring
any recruits Clemson, which made it all

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the more impressive, Which made it
all the more impressive what Brunelle did in

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terms of recruiting during that time.
Yeah, but I know it's relative.

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Brownell uses the transfer port more.
I get it. So you know he

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had that like Gerard the Giro situation. You got to bring him down to

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a place that looks a lot different
than any other university out there and sell

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them on it. Just real quickly. We're a little short on time.

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Here Will Vandervoard from the Clemson Insider. He's also covering the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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We'll get that in just a minute. Here. Uh. The kickoff for

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Clemson this year is down in Atlanta
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the Falcon Stadium, the Mercedes Benz
Stadium down there against Georgia, and it's

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at noon, which sounds like the
most one hundred ninety degree day of all

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time? Why New Why why noon? For this one? Say that again?

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I'm sorry? Why are they?
Why are they playing? Have you

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got any understanding? Is to wide
this game against Georgia to the season is

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a noon kickoff. I know,
I saw the other games on the slate

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that day. I understand this contractual
stuff, but the noon for this matchup,

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but come on now, no,
Now, I'm surprised it's a noon

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kickoff. But I think it has
everything to do with television. And I

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think that people at ESPN think Notre
Dame, Texas A and M is going

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to get more eyeballs in the primetime
slot. I think Clemson Georgia would.

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I don't know if that's true or
not. It is what it is.

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They're they're playing off the Notre Dame
game. Is what they're doing when they're

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not cheering for the Lakers and we're
not cheering for Duke, right. I

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mean the game should be a top
fifteen, but we'll see. But uh,

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as far as the game being being
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is a A few years ago,
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so did Georgia. Neither one of
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way. They didn't want to lose
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way they could work in one of
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it's a beautiful venue. I think
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football, but at the it's an
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yang doesn't look good unless it's at
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Trey's got some Steelers questions for you. Yeah, I want to get

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your pultse on the quarterback situation there
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it's probably gonna be still a bit
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leaning more towards Russell Wilson's going to
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Fields will have an opportunity. Do
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later on in the season. Will
it be Russell Wilson the whole season?

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What are your thoughts in the quarterback
situation. I think they're gonna give Russell

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Wilson every opportunity to be the guy
for them. Think if you see Justin

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Fields, one or two things have
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or that, or that the Steelers
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just don't think with you know,
a lot of people gave Russell Wilson some

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crap last year. Me being one
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and look at his numbers, they
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cent of his passes. He threw
for over I mean thirty five hundred years

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card Fnelesh. Yeah, he did
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seven interceptions, So it wasn't like
he was awful. And so if you

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get those numbers from Russell Wilson,
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If you get just those numbers from
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playoff team, a team that can
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because the problem with the Steelers the
last few years is their defense has been

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loaded, but their offense has just
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so many times. The defense is
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injured. Right, and now you've
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defense off the field and not they
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you a better chance to be successful, especially in big games. When you

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play Kansas City and you play Baltimore, and you play the Browns and the

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Bengals, you know you're more at
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last three years, Pittsburgh has not
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side of the ball when they're playing
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been dreadful. I mean, that's
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so I think right now they want
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Wilson last year, and they think
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that that'll be enough to get them
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get Russell Wilson a few years ago, oh yeah, you know, league

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YTVP and taking them to the super
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on top. And now you've got
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how it goes. But there,
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in a role like a slash role. Cordell, right, right, Cordell.

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I can hear hoursvorce Cordio. So
tell me, do you foresee Justin

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Field's returning kickoff? That's that's what
I hear. I keep hearing. I'm

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like, how well they're reporting it? So I don't think that's do you

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like, who's who's reporting it?
Who m l m L football in the

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NFL rooms rumors? Is it?
Do like to report it? No,

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it's actual, it's actual Steelers reporters
that cover the interest them. He's like

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the second fastest guy on the team. He is. I just I mean,

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if he's the backup quarterback, do
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kickoff return? I don't know.
It's a big rule change, totally different.

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But if you're gonna use him like
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you're trying to get the most out
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our wide receiver too to bring him
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Right, Yeah, he might be
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dimes. Like you're I think the
Steelers are in a much better situation.

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Will you remind us and our fine
listeners out there where we can find your

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work on the Steelers front? We
know the Clemson Insider, but to direct

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us to where you're doing just Yeoman's
work here on the Steelers front. Yeah,

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I work with the Steelers Update dot
com. Go to Steelers update dot

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com and that's where you find my
stuff at. If you can't there,

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just go to Twitter. And uh
put my stories and I caught my colleague

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stories on there as well, so
you can always find us there. And

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also Steelers update on Facebook, so
uh, Steelers update on Twitter and on

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Instagram. So it's great stuff.
Yeah, I've been following it. Man,

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it's great. And I'm dude,
I'm proud of you. Got a

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lot going on here with Clemson,
and obviously you got football around the corner.

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You got baseball going on now they
just want a golf championship. Congrats.

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And then of course, right around
the corner, the football schedule will

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be out tonight, and I can
tell you. I say, by the

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way, we're going to Atlanta first
week. I know right in my head,

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I have an entire copy of the
week one schedule and we're gonna reveal

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that in a minute. Hey,
we'll be Good City going to Kansas City.

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I mean, Kansas City's coming to
Pittsburgh. Chris say about that,

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it's gonna be a good Christmas slump
of coal. Here's another one and he's

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got forty lumps of coal and that
shirt of his rented to dole out.

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I'll be grid might be a good
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Every rod Well we got to run. Man be good. Alright,

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guys, we'll talk to you next
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