So many sports, so little time

With pro football season officially over (not that I gave a crap anyway, my football team sucked this year and they fired their coach...I'm bitter, but on a brighter side they did win the Super Bowl last year) I have become more focused on the good ol' Clempsun Tiga's and the soap opera that has consumed the athletics department and the AARC. Check out DFIG, The Sporting Gnomes, or TigerNet to get full updates on the current state of affairs.

Lately there hasn't been a dull moment for Clemson Athletics fans.

Signing day brought about an air of excitement, promise of the future, and a distraction from the steaming pile of crap that was the last half of our previous football season. However, this "air" was sucked out swiftly when several recruits were denied entry by the academic review committee and signed with other educational institutions which have comparable, if not, more rigid entrance standards. Academics and athletics have been at each other's throats and Clemson fans are getting frustrated. But, Hey...at least we got Willie Korn...that counts for something, right? I hope this young man knows the expectation to which he is being raised. I first heard of him 2 years ago, when he was still a sophomore in high school. Clemson football fans have been foaming at the mouth to see what this kid can do.

Our hopes of a "Cinderella Story" basketball team were all but crippled with losses in 5 of the last seven games. Their opening streak and painful decline reminded many of us of the football season from which we had just recovered. The time clock debacle at Cameron Indoor and the collapse of a sound beating versus Virginia made many fans sick to their stomachs. Fortunately, the Tigers have shown resilience and trounced FSU over the weekend. They'll be taking on the Deacs in Winston-Salem tonight in a Valentine's Day showdown.

Now on to the good stuff.

Clemson is ranked #1 in polls according to Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball after Rice went 1-3 in their series over the weekend. I love the fact that for the second year in a row we haven't played a game and we got moved to the top spot! I hope that this trend of starting strong and not finishing is something that Jack and the sons of Kingsmore can turn around. The Tigers open their season this weekend against George Mason in a 3 game series starting Friday.

Go Tigers!!