re: If this team wants a piece of Clemson...

I can't recall Saban putting coaching on the backburner for recruiting but that appears to be what he did when we kept Lupoi and put him at DC and Locks at OC. And, if not for an offense that could move the ball but not score we would have had a shootout with Clemson. By the way, I hate shootouts so I'm not that upset with how we lost. Now we again have one of the best coaching staffs in the country to go along with arguably the deepest roster in college football.