re: Ranters: Would you rather go to the University of South Carolina or Clemson University?

So you're Tillman's alter. Thanks for solving the mystery.

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Anybody who thinks Clemson is a subpar academic institution is either a high school troll or hasn't been out into the world much.

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Since you are actually civil on here, I will make this clear. Never said Clemson was sub par, just maybe below average or sub par for institutions in their own conference. While it is nice the SEC has some top flight academic schools it would be nice if some at the bottom of the SEC could bring their numbers up.

The problem on here, as you may know, is some Clemson posters on here are either alters or non alumni as they represent a Clemson education so poorly that if they did actually attend (and attain a degree as they claim) they do no good for the actual impression of Clemson alumni.

Also, they make claims like
Georgia Tech = Clemson
or
Harvard = Clemson

Which is clearly not the case. Either they need to get out more and see these others institutions or they need to stop drinking the Clemson Cool Aid and thinking no other school is good as Clemson when clearly there are better schools.

While some of my fellow SEC brethren may not be well traveled either, at least they are not on ACC boards posting that State is as good as MIT or Mississippi is as good as Harvard.

Does this make it clearer?

Cracks me up how many Clemson fans post on this board. I've interacted with them at the CFP and, more recently. They clearly have wanton SEC-Envy.

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Also, they make claims like
Georgia Tech = Clemson
or
Harvard = Clemson

Which is clearly not the case. Either they need to get out more and see these others institutions or they need to stop drinking the Clemson Cool Aid and thinking no other school is good as Clemson when clearly there are better schools.

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Clemson is not subpar for the conference. Middle of the road, sure, but I wouldn't rank it subpar as you said. I have worked with a ton of UVA and VT civil engineering grads... there is practically no difference in the average grads capabilities between Clemson-VT-UVA-NC State-GT.

I would make the claim that for civil engineering, a field I know well, I would take the top grad from Florida, NC State or Clemson over the top grad from Georgia Tech or MIT. At worse, they are no better. There are diminishing returns on intelligence if you are in a field that has to actually interact with people.

Often the difference between the kids that are top of their class at a school like say Georgia and your average student at Harvard is the kids at Harvard were coached from birth to check all the right boxes and come from the right schools, or they were very motivated to obtain admission to Harvard. The difference in intelligence and capabilities in the real working world between those two groups is negligible in my experience.

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that probably goes for other colleges too including Uni of SC.

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thats not what he's saying.

people know where the university of south carolina is because its in the name.

its in south carolina.

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there are a lot of people not familiar with Columbia. lol

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You are right. There are tons, but that's not what he's asking.

Clemson just says clemson. People outside of the SE would have no clue it's in SC.

that said, people down south have no idea what states Dartmouth or Cornell are in.

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so are Montgomery and Jackson....u think those cities are well known across the country lol

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nope

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Do you not know your capitals?

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Easily Clemson.

See quite a few people making fun of Clemson people. After watching the fan day segment on "rolling with the tide " I believe I would just shush. Reminded me of a Johnny Knoxville movie. Lol

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clemsonfanntn

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Lol

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Serious question. How many alters do Tillman have? Over/under set at 3.