Denial
Something is rotten up in them hills and you can smell the stink all over South Carolina. Once again, the Clemson Athletic department is turning a blind eye to a criminal domestic violation against a woman by a Clemson football player.
This sort of thing has become routine in Clemson. Clemson's image is being trashed, and you "Clemson Men" are going along with it. Of course you jump right on an 18 year old for drinking a beer in Columbia. But not a peep out of you when your athletes are becoming the Miami of the 2010's. (without the wins of course).
How many Gamecock fans on here called for Garcia's dismissal the day he scratched someones car with a key? Answer- a bunch of us. Look it up. 6 chances for a drunk to stay on the team is stupid, especially when he has cost us games directly because of it. Plenty of USC fans and the media have raised hell about each and every episode. But let's get real folks. Drinking beer and criminal domestic violence aren't in the same league.
Yet you Clemson fans who purport that Clemson University is a virtual paradise of morality, keep quiet as your athletes attack women, kids on the street are beaten senseless, and no charges are ever filed. Many of you are actually proud of this. None of you who are must remember what Clemson University used to be.
Where are the calls for accountability? Do you truly not care what is happening up there when you see with your own eyes the kids holding wads of cash? You see with your own eyes the suppressed news stories leaking out about players atttacking women with no consequenses? Is there no PRIDE left in the Clemson Family?
The lack of morality up there is a root cause of your performance on Saturdays. You can't hope to build a successful program when the program itself is rotten to the core. Why aren't you fans calling for heads to roll? Again, where is the accountabilty at Clemson?
Swinney hopeful Joe Craig can return this season
- <LI class="author vcard" sizset="93" sizcache="37">By Greg Wallace <LI class="source-org vcard" style="DISPLAY: none">OrangeAndWhite.com
- Posted July 19, 2011 at 2:05 p.m., updated July 19, 2011 at 2:10 p.m.
Photo by Sefton Ipock
Joe Craig catches a pass during warmups.
Tuesday afternoon, a.inline_topic:hover { background-color: #EAEAEA;}Dabo Swinney spoke of having only four returning receivers to begin Clemson’s preseason practice.
That doesn’t include Joe Craig, but the Tigers’ head coach is hopeful that it will soon enough.
Swinney said before beginning his annual media golf outing at The Reserve that he was holding out hope the redshirt freshman receiver would return at some point this season.
Craig was suspended indefinitely June 7 after being involved in “assault of a high and aggravated nature” with female track teammate Marlena Wesh.
Following an incident at a track team pool party, Craig allegedly hit Wesh repeatedly with a bar torn from a towel rack; Wesh slashed Craig’s tricep with an eyebrow razor. Neither was charged criminally in the incident; Craig has been suspended from both the football and track teams, and faces Clemson University discipline.
“He’s going through the process we have at the university,” Swinney said.
“The hope is that we’ll get him back, but nothing in the immediate future.”
Right now, Swinney said, he must wait for university action.
“I’m hopeful that we’ll get him back by the time school starts,” Swinney said. “And he’ll have some team discipline that he’ll do.”
Currently, Clemson’s only experienced receivers are DeAndre Hopkins, Marquan Jones, Bryce McNeal and Jaron Brown. Talented incoming freshmen Sammy Watkins, Charone Peake and Martavis Bryant will likely be relied on heavily.
But Swinney is hoping Craig can bolster that group.
“Joe’s a good kid,” he said. “It’s an unfortunate situation. There’s consequences for the actions. He’s a guy I believe in. Hopefully at some point he’ll be able to come back and help us win the ACC this year. “
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