A reminder that Brandon Jacobs was a bruising 6-foot-4, 264-pound running back in the NFL.
Reminder necessary because his son, Clemson freshman Brayden, makes him look like Darren Sproles.
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Starting on June 15: LSU football for The Advocate/Times-Picayune
- Gary Gilmore goes off on NIL, says he absolutely will not miss dealing with it as a coach at Coastal.
00:00 - One of the coolest “Where are they now’s” ever: Denzel Johnson, a Clemson safety from 2015-19, has become a falconer. He hunts with his hawk, Draven, in the woods just south of Memorial Stadium.
00:00 - Dabo Swinney has arrived. He wishes everyone a Happy Halloween. Then asks reporters who they are dressing up as. Phil Kornblut (@sportstalksc) answers "Tyler from Spartanburg." Everyone, including Swinney, laughs hard.
- Erik Bakich said Clemson decided to not offer a couple of top pitching transfers this offseason because they wanted to be paid more NIL than anyone on the roster. He explains why he told them “adios”:
00:00 - Did the fire marshal approve this?
00:00Mercer transfer Ty Dalley had his bat set on fire coming to his at bat vs. the Bananas. A couple of swings and a miss and the bat's fire is put out. But then he hits a homer. - Dabo Swinney made it clear today: Clemson is not going to push players into the transfer portal to find new ones. It’s still “Til Graduation Do We Part” as long as Swinney is the coach.
00:00 - Clemson safety Khalil Barnes says Dabo Swinney started yesterday’s team meeting with scripture. “He went from scripture to scripture, kind of turned into a sermon.”
00:00 - Clemson says all 32 NFL teams are at today’s pro day. Steelers’ Mike Tomlin is the lone head coach. NASCAR reps are also here looking for jackmen, fuel men, and the like. (Landon Walker, Sheridan Jones among those who have transitioned into racing crew work.)
- Cade Klubnik said Dabo Swinney's "Til Graduation Do We Part" philosophy offers Clemson's players security in a cutthroat era. So I asked Klubnik how security doesn't become complacency. The QB said it doesn't because Swinney tells players the truth. And some can't handle it.
00:0001:20Dabo Swinney made it clear today: Clemson is not going to push players into the transfer portal to find new ones. It’s still “Til Graduation Do We Part” as long as Swinney is the coach. - Dabo Swinney says he sent Diondre Overton's dad these totals from the App game to uplift him. Overton's number at Clemson was No. 14. Final score: 66-20 ->6+6+2=14 --> 66+20=86-->8+6=14 The first TD was from Cade Klubnik (2) to Bryant Wesco Jr. (12). 2+12=14
- Brent Venables talking about Clemson at his introductory press conference at OU: "The secret sauce there is the people ... I've grown more in these last 10 years holistically, as a husband, as a coach, as a believer than I have in the rest of my life. I'm incredibly indebted."
- Jeremiah Trotter played in a Super Bowl with the Eagles in 2005 but didn't win. Exactly 20 years later, Jeremiah Trotter Jr. (Clemson alum) performs his father's axe-chop celebration in a Super Bowl and the Eagles win.
