re: South Carolina put on one year of probation

For 1/10th of what lswho and barners do daily

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Holy shite this thread is still going

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This thread epitomizes the Clemson fanbase. There isn't a more obnoxious, self-righteous group of people in this country. Their entire existence is being anti-South Carolina. It's in their DNA. The college itself was founded on near violent opposition to South Carolina College, the Citadel and the Hampton Democrats who supported said schools. I can't imagine flooding an ACC website to harass Clemson fans because they aren't worth it. The vast majority of them are sad people whose value and self-worth stems from a football team in a county most of them couldn't point to on a map.

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Sad times from a sad program

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You have almost 850 posts on an SEC message board and every single one of them is about South Carolina.

Sad times for a sad poster inexplicably obsessed with an allegedly sad program.

I love rubbing in how bad ya'll suck, I'm sorry

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So what does it say about you that you spend every day on a website talking about a program that is historically sad?

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I didn't have a little brother growing up.
Making up for lost time.

Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as Governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white supremacist who opposed civil rights for black Americans, Tillman led a paramilitary group of Red Shirts during South Carolina's violent 1876 election. On the floor of the U.S. Senate, he defended lynching, and frequently ridiculed black Americans in his speeches, boasting of having helped kill them during that campaign.[1]
In the 1880s, Tillman, a wealthy landowner, became dissatisfied with the Democratic leadership and led a movement of white farmers calling for reform. He was initially unsuccessful, though he was instrumental in the founding of Clemson University as an agricultural land-grant college. In 1890, Tillman took control of the state Democratic Party, and was elected governor. During his four years in office, 18 black Americans were lynched in South Carolina; in the 1890s the state had its highest number of lynchings of any decade.


Update: "The Clemson University Board of Trustees is committed to diversity and will continue to be so. While we respect the many differing opinions of our graduates, our students, our faculty and staff regarding this matter, the Clemson University Board does not intend to change the names of buildings on campus, including Tillman Hall.