re: Cole Stoudt looks like garbage

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Weird how their program can keep info locked up for so long. If a UGA player got injured at practice we'd know before Richt.

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Not really, once you know how they do things up there. Clemson is probably miles ahead of anyone else when it comes to school-controlled propaganda regarding their programs, especially their FB program.

A few years ago, their RB position coach made some rather candid comments about their RBs that drew some criticism towards the program: he simply stated that his top 2 backs at the time - Andre Ellington and Jamie Harper - were deciding for themselves when each would go into games and play, and when each would come out for breathers.

Overall it wasn't that big of a deal, but immediately after that Swinney imposed a new policy of where ONLY the head coach (him), and the coordinators were allowed to give post-practice interviews, or interviews of any kind. After that season, the RB coach was replaced by their current position coach who at the time had never played nor coached the RB position before previously. He's essentially a recruiter and graduate-assistant, and nothing more...

Swinney has had a tight, oxygen-choking deathgrip on what news gets out on their FB program. Everyone made a huge deal about the riff between Spurrier and a columnist for the local Columbia newspaper, that got the columnist banned from pressers for a couple of years. Other reporters could still attend, ask whatever questions they liked, and report however they felt...

At Clemson, certain media reporters are NOT allowed to attend pressers and ask questions, but this was all done quietly and behind the scenes, unlike Spurrier's issue where he announced it loudly to a room filled with reporters.

Clemson had their longtime game play-by-play announcer replaced by their long-time "public-relations director and video programmer", who had zero experience at such a job, because the original announcer wasn't a true "Clemson Man", and wouldn't color his remarks when the team struggled. His replacement was previously involved in determining what videos were put out about the program, and what news was reported. The regular color analyst that worked with the fired announcer - who IS a true "Clemson Man" - quit the job in protest. They replaced him with former CU QB Rodney Williams, another man with zero experience at the profession..

Clemson has also tightened down on outgoing news from other media outlets. They want to make sure only positive news is released and negative news is not. They have a lock-down on any lawful violations that occur in Clemson - which is essentially more their school campus than an actual college town...