Speaker 1: Well, you can say what a difference of week makes.
Speaker 1: Last week we were talking about the portal Nil Dabbo.
Speaker 1: I think we took the high road on this show,
Speaker 1: as we always do, and tried to be nuanced, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad we did because it came on back and
Speaker 1: just said all sorts of acc records in a huge
Speaker 1: win against a very good app State team. And Don
Speaker 1: Munson was on the call for that game for the
Speaker 1: Clemson Athletic Network. Dapper Don, welcome back to the show,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 2: Big Cat fruit loops that you are good glad to
Speaker 2: see our the Tigers play like they did on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was too for these Clemson faithful out there
Speaker 1: that obviously, look, it's been a tough couple of years
Speaker 1: based on what the standard has been prior to that.
Speaker 1: But let's just rewind a minute here. There was so
Speaker 1: much conversation about this program nationally, and this is why
Speaker 1: you always got to listen local, because you know guys
Speaker 1: like yourself. I would like to think myself my mates
Speaker 1: over there at the English Tiger Tailgate show, Mark and
Speaker 1: Daja and and Rich and the whole crew, we have
Speaker 1: a better sense of what's going on with that program
Speaker 1: than just about anybody. And I just told people last week,
Speaker 1: let's give it a couple weeks, let's see how these
Speaker 1: young receivers look. And my goodness, right out of the gate,
Speaker 1: mister west coo gone, how about that start?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I be really honest with you, After being at
Speaker 2: practice most of the week, I kind of thought that
Speaker 2: was a play they were going to open up with.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I think that you could
Speaker 2: tell that throughout the week just watching things offensively, they
Speaker 2: felt like they that they're at the wide receiver, especially
Speaker 2: the young kids, had a little bit of an advantage
Speaker 2: over what that state was going to show in the
Speaker 2: defensive secondary. Well, that proved out to be that to
Speaker 2: be pretty true. So you know, I hate to see
Speaker 2: my alma mater getting beat down like that, but it
Speaker 2: was a beatdown, and it was you know, they collected
Speaker 2: their check and went about. They went right back up
Speaker 2: their merry way, right back up to twenty one and
Speaker 2: back to boon.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, and that's going to happen, you know.
Speaker 1: Clemson sixty six twenty was the final I was watching.
Speaker 1: I didn't stay for the game down, but by the
Speaker 1: time I got home it was about third quarter in.
Speaker 1: It was great to see so many of the backups
Speaker 1: get in there and get some great reps. I think
Speaker 1: Dabbo even talked about it, but kay Klubnick looked. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of conversation after that Georgia game how
Speaker 1: he would respond, and I thought he stood up handled
Speaker 1: it like a man. In the media all week. He
Speaker 1: had got in front of his teammates reportedly after that
Speaker 1: Georgia game and said, you know, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: quit on you, guys, don't quit on me, paraphrasing there
Speaker 1: of course, and he just came out of the gate
Speaker 1: and was so crisp and accurate. Again, I know the
Speaker 1: level of competition is different when you're playing Georgia, but
Speaker 1: good for Clubnick, right because it's a confidence boost for
Speaker 1: him and the defense and everybody on that team to
Speaker 1: see your leader at quarterback putting dimes out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, you know, after the Georgia game, I was
Speaker 2: down there in the locker room that had to coach finish.
Speaker 2: That's when Cade, you know, got up and stood forward
Speaker 2: amongst the offensive group. The offensive indefensive groups always split
Speaker 2: up after coach talks, and it was pretty impressive to
Speaker 2: see the young man, you know, stand up there and
Speaker 2: do that. And I think that was it was important
Speaker 2: for him to do that, be honest with because he
Speaker 2: is he's he's he's the face of the program. Uh,
Speaker 2: and you know he you know, basically saying he said,
Speaker 2: does I'm not quitting on you. I don't expect you
Speaker 2: to quit on me. Now. What I would also say
Speaker 2: is that I think that to see the young wide receivers, uh,
Speaker 2: particularly Westco. Now Moore had some some good myths, but
Speaker 2: in particularly you know, what what Westco did was it
Speaker 2: gave it gave juice to everybody. I think it throughout practice,
Speaker 2: you knew that it was going to happen, that this
Speaker 2: was this was the decision that was going to be made,
Speaker 2: and they were going to start the young man, and
Speaker 2: it woke up everybody. And I think it was good.
Speaker 2: I think it was good for the wide receiver room,
Speaker 2: it was good for the offense, and and certainly it
Speaker 2: seemed Kaye. I think that was a it was a
Speaker 2: real growing moment for him. And then for him to
Speaker 2: do what he did. You know, there hasn't been a
Speaker 2: college quarterback that's done that in the game in twenty
Speaker 2: five years and I'm you. I mean, there's been some
Speaker 2: pretty good college quarterbacks in the last twenty five years,
Speaker 2: but nobody, nobody has had, you know, a half like
Speaker 2: what he had.
Speaker 1: No, it was crazy. I was listening to your call
Speaker 1: on the way back to Boiling Springs after the tailgate
Speaker 1: show that we did down there, and I was I
Speaker 1: just was in awe of the amount of production and
Speaker 1: just the fact that they were able to pour it
Speaker 1: on again against that program that has always been highly
Speaker 1: competitive out of the sun Belt there app State, as
Speaker 1: you know, and you know now you look forward to
Speaker 1: a bye week. I think it all comes together now
Speaker 1: for this program, at least the short term. You know
Speaker 1: how it is. It's a week to week proposition. But
Speaker 1: I think it's a huge confidence booster and the status
Speaker 1: of the ACC right now. Man, it's an expanded conference.
Speaker 1: Of course, you've got so many newcomers to this ACC landscape.
Speaker 1: But isn't the goal obviously to win the conference. It's
Speaker 1: so Dabo talks about, right, there's all sorts of goals.
Speaker 1: They still have that plane in their site very early
Speaker 1: in this season.
Speaker 2: Well, no doubt, you know, if Compston wins the Atlantic
Speaker 2: Coast Conference, seem the wins the championship that you know,
Speaker 2: not only they in the playoffs, they're one of the
Speaker 2: one of the four buys. Yeah as well. You know,
Speaker 2: I think people forget that they Okay, well they win,
Speaker 2: they you know, they're gonna be an like the eight seeds. No,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be one of the They're gonna be one
Speaker 2: of the top four seeds and have a buy. Uh
Speaker 2: you know, from from that standpoint, so yeah, it's it's big.
Speaker 2: But I think the other thing is is that you know,
Speaker 2: Clemson knows they have their back to the wall. They
Speaker 2: I don't know that they can have another hiccup along
Speaker 2: the way. To be perfectly honest with you, they they
Speaker 2: probably need to need to win out to, you know,
Speaker 2: to really secure things. But we'll see. I mean, I
Speaker 2: can I guess see. Maybe they go something in one
Speaker 2: inside the league and they would that that would probably
Speaker 2: put them in in a championship game scenario. But who
Speaker 2: is that one too? You got to make sure that
Speaker 2: that one is not a matchup that you would lose
Speaker 2: a tiebreaker and keep you out of the the ACC
Speaker 2: championship game.
Speaker 1: I was impressed with the crowd, don and again we
Speaker 1: got a lot of Clemson fans that listen. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of Gamecock fans that listen, but we give
Speaker 1: them equal time. I thought the crowd was exceptional. We
Speaker 1: saw it during the Tiger Tailgate show brought to you
Speaker 1: by Engles throughout that three hour wind though I was
Speaker 1: there earlier than that, and I just thought between the
Speaker 1: APP State contingent that showed up and good on them
Speaker 1: too because they travel well and Clemson, it was a
Speaker 1: very it felt like a late season environment in that
Speaker 1: stadium to me, and you could see the fans were
Speaker 1: trying to rally around this young team with a lot
Speaker 1: of pieces that have been scrutinized and say, hey, we
Speaker 1: got you back.
Speaker 2: Well, I think what happened with the crowd, and you
Speaker 2: kind of know this is that you know, I got
Speaker 2: on campus around four o'clock, and you know, I'm walking
Speaker 2: from my car and into my office and then doing
Speaker 2: some other things there outside of the football stadium, and
Speaker 2: you could there was there was a there was a
Speaker 2: little sense of Okay, what's about to happen? What is
Speaker 2: going to happen? Because there was there was a ton
Speaker 2: of respect for APP and what they have done in
Speaker 2: years past in situations just like that and so, but
Speaker 2: then to see the third play offensively bang, and then
Speaker 2: they come back quick strike again and before anybody knew it,
Speaker 2: it was twenty one to nothing and the place is
Speaker 2: on fire, and they just kept going. Then then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden it grew to forty two to nothing,
Speaker 2: and that you know, by the time that it was
Speaker 2: twenty eight and I think the party was on. By
Speaker 2: the time they go to the forty two to nothing,
Speaker 2: it was like Woodstock. I mean, it was out of control.
Speaker 2: And so you know, he got to play a lot
Speaker 2: of people and it was a good time.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was silid, and it's still reverberating today. Now, now
Speaker 2: the question, yes, we have the open week, So now
Speaker 2: what happens and the pressure becomes can you do it again?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't. I'm not saying can you go
Speaker 2: and score you know, sixty six points on somebody?
Speaker 1: Oh sure, can you do it again?
Speaker 2: You better come back and play well against since State
Speaker 2: and then guess what, this your your home after that again,
Speaker 2: you better come back and do it well against Stanford
Speaker 2: the next two games. I think you are really really
Speaker 2: big for this football program. They can if they can
Speaker 2: pull off a month of September going three and one.
Speaker 2: Then I think they do head into October and back
Speaker 2: to back road games in really good fashion.
Speaker 1: Noon kickoff coming up on the twenty first. That's their
Speaker 1: next opponent at home in the Valley against Sinca State.
Speaker 1: An important game and they've got some explosive players there,
Speaker 1: but they took a tough one on the chin there
Speaker 1: in Charlotte this weekend. It's gonna be a great matchup.
Speaker 1: Don Munson will be on the call for that one
Speaker 1: in all the games this entire season with our good
Speaker 1: friend Tim Murray and Reggie Mirrweather. Don, it's always great
Speaker 1: to catch up. I'm glad we can do this in
Speaker 1: a more formal setting. We got to give you the
Speaker 1: Don line. I'm gonna call it. The Don line is
Speaker 1: secondary number. You can always reach it. It's like the
Speaker 1: bat signal.
Speaker 2: Give me the batphone. I like that. That's it.
Speaker 1: Good all right, Don, Great, great work this weekend.
Speaker 2: Hey boys, Go Tigers.