What does ECU v. Tulsa from 2008 say about FSU v. Clemson?

I hate to beat a dead horse. But is Clemson a rival or isn’t it? People on both sides want to seem to acknowledge that it is but it doesn’t feel like it.

Note, I would like it to be, especially with this year likely being the Canes swan song of relevancy for the 2010’s

is there a change that Coker becomes the back up – or is there no way that he is ready to play this year?

Off off topic – I think the play by play breakdown and analysis done on this site is the best thing, out of many, that you all do here – so while it appears to be a time consuming chore – I think it is well worth it to the readers. The breakdown of the 2nd EJ pick was JAWsesque. (Ron J ESPN)

Random analysis like this is one of the many reasons I love this site. I stared at your Tweet about ECU and Tulsa for a good minute trying to figure out what relevance those two schools could have to Clemson & FSU before remembering that Hudson came from ECU.

A) Can the defense replicate the same energy they had against OU, playing in a hostile environment? A tough D is going to make it difficult for Clemson to sustain any drive. I to believe that Clemson won’t be patient and attempt to force plays.
2) Can we gin up a rushing attack that keeps Clemson on their heels. I believe that 100-125+ rushing yards from the RBs with EJ as the QB helps us greatly. We may need more rushing yards with Trickett.
D) Can the offense produce a healthy mix of passes to the WRs as well as the TEs in the seams and the FB out of the backfield. Passes to the TEs will be important especially if our QBs are able to hit the mid out patterns.
(I don’t know my formatting beyond D so bear with me). I think that play timing will be impotant as well. Not a plodding nor an up tempo pace, but a pace above what they would expect from our offense. A good mix of the things mention will control the ball and keep the off guard.

why does everyone always think the backup QB is so great? Clint did a great job considering the circumstances, but I don’t think he did a “great job.” I hope he continues to grow and become a great player, but he’s not there yet. And no-one should expect him to be.

If we can’t run again, Trink is going to have to throw A LOT against a good defense that will designed for pass defense. Freshmen QBs with scaled down playbooks get blitzed a lot and see strange coverages they just can’t read yet. DISASTER.

I think we see Trink with 3 INTs off of hurried throws and pass reflections and its only going to take one cheap shot to break him because he’s a twig. And we’ll forfeit the game when his dad murders the defensive player that hurts him. Maybe he can also get 3TDs to balance the INTs.

I think it all comes down to special teams and defense. If we give up 1-2 big plays on defense but don’t get any on our end we’re going to lose.

I wonder how every would rate the w/l probabilities now, if they could rate them all over again.

There has YET to be a team that could NOT run against CU. Throughout 3 games they have given up the most rush yards in the entire ACC and just over 290 pass yards a game. To put is perspective CU has given up almost 100 more yards in just rushing than FSU’s entire defense has given up all year and that is after playing against one of the best Offenses in OU.

This is against Troy, Wofford and Auburn.. I would take my chances with one of the best defense against a bad defense…

We are talking about Troy, Wofford and the shell of what used to be Auburn.lol..

Look, I am WELL aware of the need to establish the rush and of our stable of running backs but things just haven’t gone our way in the running game thru 3 weeks. We’ve played jokes of teams (with the assumption that we were “saving our good plays” for OU) and we’ve played OU and things just haven’t worked out. Not that we should stop running but I mean, it is literally to the point where my buddies and I can call out which plays are going to be runs. You can bet that if I can, so can opposing D-coordinators. Also, EJ misses on a good number of deep balls and if he hit a good majority of those, you can bet a defensive player might take a step backwards (opening up the QB-read and run plays). I LOVE when EJ runs because it works. But our run blocking is abysmal and at this point, maybe we need to use the pass to set up the run (hard to do with EJ out though, so now what the hell do we do?). I’m stumped.