You guys lost to Duke today. Duke. A historically elite program with a pretty good team this year. You all have hope for next year, and a coach who has been to multiple sweet sixteens. Now - and this should make you feel even better - put yourselves in my shoes. I think I may have just witnessed the beginning of the end. It felt a lot like that fateful thursday night in 2008, only worse. There was hope then. I knew Bowden was done. Now? Not so much. I have at least one more year of this slow motion train wreck. You might be thinking - slow motion train wreck? That seems dramatic. If that is what you're thinking, you obviously didn't watch tonight. It was Brownell's tenure summed up perfectly in an incredible, singular display of basketball buffoonery. Horrible personnel management? Check. 4 stars (errrr 4 star, singular) jacking up bricks at the worst possible time like that middle schooler with a front tuck, wrist bands and some fresh KDs and just generally not remotely living up to his billing? Yep. We had that. Horrendous clock management? Present. A shocking sense of disinterest on the sidelines replete with smug stares and the occasional shrug? Accounted for. Moronic shots? Yep. Shots that would get Steph Curry pulled. Veterans playing with less court awareness than a blind ostrich on crystal? You're damn right. Stupid Fouls? Tons of them. Like fouling a center while face guarding him off the ball 60 feet from the basket kind of stupid. Terrible time out usage? Yep. Up 18 with just north of 7.5 minutes to go, we had 2 left. Game heads to overtime. Surely we used those in an effort to stop the hemorrhaging? Nope. Flesh wound. No biggie. We'll carry both into OT. You never know when you might need 'em. Atrocious free throw shooting? It wouldn't be a Clemson game without it.
Seriously, Brownell's paycheck is such a waste of money, it would make career congressmen blush. We should save ourselves 2 mill and put a cutout of Rick Barnes or Tates Locke on the sideline. Hell, I'll take the job and guarantee that Jamie Luckie gets roundhoused in the throat at least once. The Brownell apologists are out in full force on the homeboard tonight blaming the refs and explaining away yet another inexplicable loss. Those MENSA members who understand the game on a plane us mere mortals are simply too dense to fathom will have a long off season trying to push that old narrative that he's the best coach on campus. Ironically, many of them are the same ones that called for Dabo's head after his second season. Second. Here we are in the sixth season of Brownell's tenure staring down the barrel of a seventh season that looks real familiar. So familiar, I'll tell you what's going to happen right now. The only player on our roster is going to abandon ship and head to the NBA prematurely and get sent to the D league. We are going to be ranked at the bottom of the ACC preseason. We are going to kick things off by losing to directional Nevada, UC San Clemente, Valdosta State, and a host of other schools that no one has ever heard of. Then ACC play will start. We'll surprise some people and beat Duke or Miami or UNC (nope. nope. not them.), and subsequently feel pretty good about our squarely on the bubble status. We will close the season out by dropping 7 of 8 to Wake, BC, FSU twice, Syracuse, whatever. We'll get bounced in the first round of the ACC tournament and turn down an invite to a new post season tournament being held in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Rant over. Take home message - Take heart. At least things are looking up for you guys now.
Seriously, Brownell's paycheck is such a waste of money, it would make career congressmen blush. We should save ourselves 2 mill and put a cutout of Rick Barnes or Tates Locke on the sideline. Hell, I'll take the job and guarantee that Jamie Luckie gets roundhoused in the throat at least once. The Brownell apologists are out in full force on the homeboard tonight blaming the refs and explaining away yet another inexplicable loss. Those MENSA members who understand the game on a plane us mere mortals are simply too dense to fathom will have a long off season trying to push that old narrative that he's the best coach on campus. Ironically, many of them are the same ones that called for Dabo's head after his second season. Second. Here we are in the sixth season of Brownell's tenure staring down the barrel of a seventh season that looks real familiar. So familiar, I'll tell you what's going to happen right now. The only player on our roster is going to abandon ship and head to the NBA prematurely and get sent to the D league. We are going to be ranked at the bottom of the ACC preseason. We are going to kick things off by losing to directional Nevada, UC San Clemente, Valdosta State, and a host of other schools that no one has ever heard of. Then ACC play will start. We'll surprise some people and beat Duke or Miami or UNC (nope. nope. not them.), and subsequently feel pretty good about our squarely on the bubble status. We will close the season out by dropping 7 of 8 to Wake, BC, FSU twice, Syracuse, whatever. We'll get bounced in the first round of the ACC tournament and turn down an invite to a new post season tournament being held in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Rant over. Take home message - Take heart. At least things are looking up for you guys now.
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