“They get in your face and force the issue, so it’s not complicated – you’ve got to make a bunch of competitive plays”. “A lot of them have accomplished a lot, like getting master’s degrees and things like that, and I feel like they’re good role models for me”.
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Defensive coordinator Brent Venables said Wilkins’ maturity has been evident since the defensive tackle stepped on campus, and because of that, he has been unsurprised by the early impact Wilkins has made. “He’s a lot deeper than just a guy that’s out there sacking the quarterback”.
“Maybe I’ll get a fumble recovery”.
“It’s hard to sit here and say everyone is not hurting, including our coaching staff. But in the same breathe life moves on, football season moves on”, Eagles head coach Steve Addazio told WBZ-TV’s Levan Reid on this week’s Inside BC Football.
“You pack your run game, which believe it or not, we have the 24th ranked run game right now”, said Addazio.
Boston College is 3-3 on the season, 0-3 in the ACC, 2-3-1 against the spread and 5-1 with the under. Addazio gives credit to Clemson’s coaching staff to being able to lure Wilkins to the South.
“I thought it was pretty awesome”, Leggett said. The Eagles allow just 140.3 yards per game, which is less than half as many yards as Clemson has allowed this season and 120 yards per game less than what Clemson allowed past year when the Tigers led the nation in total defense.
With Homecoming this weekend in Clemson, the atmosphere is guaranteed to be exciting and filled with Tiger pride. They’re big and strong up front like always, and are rarely out of position. “There’s not a person that wants a picture of me or an autograph that goes without one”.
Given the Tigers’ emerging offensive potency and stalwart defense thus far in 2015, they should draw on these past successes to ensure that the immediate future remains bright. Even so, Wilkins is already beginning his preparation for life after football. They have been playing the two QB system, and it isn’t working out for them.
And all was right with the world, until the word, the one everyone knew was coming in a few form or another, was uttered, in this case by ESPN’s David Hale at the post-game press conference: “Clemsoning”, aka the art of losing to someone you have no business losing to, usually after beating a team generally considered better.
Tar Heels coach Larry Fedora said Chizik has brought a solid base that players can improve at week to week.
“By us not having a voice, our voice is our performance on the field and coach Swinney”, he said.
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Clemson averaged 146.4 rushing yards per game and 3.5 yards per carry last season; this season the Tigers are averaging 195.4 yards per game and 4.6 yards per carry. Either way, that quarterback will be facing the daunting challenge of a night game at Memorial Stadium, where the host defense has allowed more than 300 yards just three times in their last 13 games dating to previous year.
