Is it just me or among the 3 coaches, BV,CM, and Dabo,

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Re: I agree with you %100 on Caldwell. IMHO that

Sep 21, 2014, 2:26 PM

The dumpster fire that is our special teams trumps all that.

Caldwell's a pretty good OL coach, or at least he was in prior stops. I do get the notion that his ideas and Morris's don't always mesh.

One thing you have to respect about Steve Spurrier is how well he's adapted to the modern game. He was one of the pioneers of the spread offense at Duke, and at UF he passed circles around stodgy SEC teams that still hadn't really warmed to the notion that the football could also be thrown...but his running game was pretty much straight draw plays. He's still got his ability to chuck the rock around and spot weak points in the D...but his run game, at South Carolina, has gotten incredibly more sophisticated...he brought in Shawn Elliott from App State, completely switched up his run-blocking scheme, and wedded an almost old-fashioned power-running game that also includes, on occasion, some option elements to his traditional spread, and he made it work. But there was definitely a meeting of the minds there...and Spurrier made it work. And his OL at South Carolina is huge, utterly different from what he had at prior stops.

I don't get the sense that's always the case between Caldwell and Morris...certainly the word is the two aren't exactly tight, and certainly Morris, in the past, has shown a tendency to get pass-happy and abandon the run even when it's working. Last year's offense either went for a score in three plays or it went three-and-out; sustaining drives wasn't one of ours strengths. When you've got a cannon-armed QB like Boyd tossing the rock up to receivers like Watkins and Bryant, you can get away with it...usually. Until you run into, say, an FSU or South Carolina.

We still probably could have survived our young-player growing pains on O, and even the mess that is our OL right now, if our special teams wasn't absolutely killing us. That's massive "hidden" yardage and points left on the field all over the place. We haven't just missed field goals left and right - at key moments - we've also given up a 100-yard TD return, a 48-yard punt return, and we can't block in our own return game to save our own lives. We have to use Humphries to field punts because any returner we have is going to have three unblocked guys in his face and our "returner" is essentially a "fielder"...and I can't remember the last time Clemson pressured, much less blocked, a punt of its own. And ST's are a full third of the game. Evaluation has been particularly poor in this area; if not for Bradley Pinion we'd likely have the worst special-teams units in Clemson history, which is saying something when you consider how bad Ron West's special-teams were under Tommy Bowden.

Something has to be done there...and my fear is that despite Watson's emergence, and despite how well our defense has played at times this year, we could well be looking at an 8-4 or even 7-5 season if our special teams continue to misfire as badly as they have.

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BV is way ahead of Morris in being Head Coach Ready

I appreciate Dabo and his administration of the program, but

He took blame for his play calling in the UGA game...

I agree with you %100 on Caldwell. IMHO that

Re: I agree with you %100 on Caldwell. IMHO that

So why is it never fixed? Everyone here wants to blame the

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