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The Alabama-Clemson “rivalry” formed on excellence (meeting in the national championship game three times in four years) has noticeably lacked the trash talk and bitterness that comes in many rivalries. Dabo Swinney and Nick Saban go out of their way to compliment the other and talk about their friendship and mutual admiration. From the players, there were no headline-grabbing quotes turned into bulletin board material ahead of the game. One quote, after Monday’s game, however is raising eyebrows Thursday.
A new Sports Illustrated feature features a quote from Tigers WR Hunter Renfrow that talks about doing things the right way:
“Coach Swinney has built it on fun, and obviously Coach Saban has built it on a process. I’m just so proud of being at a place like Clemson, where I feel like we’ve done it the right way. If we’re supposed to have only five guys on the field as coaches, we’re making sure we have five. We’re not doing it the wrong way and we’re having fun doing it.”
It’s the “five guys on the field as coaches” part that is getting the most attention. Considering the full quote opens with comparing Swinney and Saban, the end portion of the quote appears to be accusing Alabama of breaking the NCAA’s rule about on-field coaches in games and practice. The NCAA officially allows 10 on-field assistants who “may participate in any manner in the coaching of the intercollegiate team of a member institution during any football game, practice or other organized activity.” Renfrow’s quote is being interpreted as implying that some of Alabama’s analysts are working in practice as on-field coaches. Clemson has exactly five offensive assistant coaches.
Hunter is just upset that his coloring book classes keep getting harder, preventing him from graduating.
Well, now that your dumb comment is out of the way, that begs the question of validity to his comment.
Might not can color well but he can find holes and make the good ones look silly doing it.
That’s what I was about to say, whether he can color or not doesn’t matter when he can be a big part of helping his team beat anybody they play, whether it’s going undefeated in the ACC, embarrassing an undefeated team that doesn’t have a conference in the first round of the playoffs or the best that the SEC has to offer in the National Championship.
Good response!
Odd that Butch Jones is an off the field analyst yet he has consistently been shown on the sidelines coaching players.
Odd that the only Butch Jones comment comes from a Tennessee fan. Who cares, really?
The curse of Lyle “The Intern” Jones is intact and confirmed for Alabama. Enjoy your Life Championship!
I also noticed ole Five Star Heart’s doing some coaching on the sideline.
Don’t hold your breath. If Saban wants to use more than five, he will, and nothing will be done about it.
So will Kirby. If you think otherwise, you’re just an idiot.
RT, I hope Kirby does. I just wonder if he would be allowed to get away with it. That is the question.
So you hope Kirby cheats?
Come on, BT. You know it wouldn’t be cheating if Kirby did it!
So you noticed someone standing on the sideline talking to players? What did he say?…. They are allowed to be on the sideline…
Shhhh… That doesn’t fit the sad trolls narrative. Tim is an idiot.
What happens when they get to the NFL and it’s not fun and games anymore?
They succeed like a bunch of them have.
They are getting paid then. That’s very different.
Clemson won. He can say what he wants to. If they had lost to Bama again, no one would pay any attention. It would be hilarious if he shows up on the sideline as a graduate asst. next year. It’s pretty easy to knock a team like Bama after you neat them. The haters love it. Then again, he might still be a little butt hurt from being shut down last year.
I wouldn’t accuse others of cheating when your star DL got busted for PEDs…
The three Alabama players that were suspended earlier this week are out “indefinitely”. Left guard Deonte Brown, tight end Kedrick James and offensive lineman Elliot Baker will be suspended for the rest of the season and “maybe beyond” due to NCAA violations.
Three Clemson players, including starting defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence, will remain suspended for the College Football Playoff national championship game after supplemental samples of a failed drug test returned positive results for a banned muscle-growth supplement.
Each team has “three” players get indefinitely suspended due to “NCAA rules violations” (on the same week). The very same week when the NCAA comes around for their random year end drug test.
One team admits it was for using a banned substance. The other won’t say why. And the troll bandwagon type Alabama fans think they can act like nobody knows why their players were suspended (Nothing to see here) while pointing the finger at another school, for doing the exact same thing. How do you spell hypocrite…
You’re just stupid aren’t you? Nobody from Bama has accused anyone of cheating….
I see UKs OC turned UGA down… Its the Kirby effect. Losing to 4 loss teams and getting blown out by someone from the west… Moral Victory U?
I see Bama losing coaches to mighty Akron. Speaking of moral victories……
Bama loses coaches every offseason and they still beat UGA….
UGARMYRet Where did UGA’s coach come from again???
UGARMY doesn’t want to admit it, but Georgia under Kirby is built by Bama. LMOA
Nobody? you just said, “I wouldn’t accuse others of cheating when your star DL got busted for PEDs…” as if your team wasn’t doing the exact same thing. Saban not admitting it, dosen’t make it not so. And it’s not the first time for Alabama under Saban.
I guess you confirmed you’re a dumba$$… Nobody accused Clemson of cheating. It is a fact the NCAA set their player for PEDs… There is nothing proven with anyone that’s not supposed to be coaching doing something wrong so that was an accusation…
Also nobody from Bama accused Clemson of anything. You may be a bigger dumba$$ than iluvmydawgs….
LMAO, what a sad attempt. No one from bama is accusing others of cheating, but you’re too stupid to even realize that. Clearly bama living rent free in that pea brain of yours though.
The fact of the matter is, that Clemson was clearly the better team. Bama could have had 100 coaches on the sideline and the outcome of the game would not have changed.
Immature ramblings of a kid with a smidgeon of temporary limelight. Nothing indicates he has any special insight to give credence to his troll. The only things noteworthy about his comment is that he was dumb enough to say it publicly, and “reporters” were dumb enough to amplify it.
This is a kid who’s scored 4 TDs against Alabama in two previous championship game matchups-including the game winner with seconds to go to clip the Tide in 2016.
He’s earned it.
So he earned the right to accuse a team of cheating because he played well in the game? That’s $hitty logic..
All he earned was a moment of name recognition significant enough to guile a few media members to pass along his uninformed troll. He didnt earn any special knowledge about UA’s coach compliance with NCAA rules.
Well Renfrow’s right about one thing. It sure looks like it’s a lot more fun playing for Swinney than Saban. I mean the guy is on the sidelines celebrating with guys when they make a great play, and he’s doing right from the game’s onset when it’s far from decided. Bama players respect Saban. But Clemson players love Swinney. Dare I say, love conquers all?
Yeah, I guess we’re breaking rules, just like Dexter Lawrence. Funny how Renfro had nothing to say last year, when First round pick, Minkah Fitzpatrick, erased him from the game entirely, until their last garbage drive, when he caught a few meaningless passes.
Bold statement, but not something everyone outside of Bama has always assumed. Just like when they hired that drunk Sark. Who plugs a new OC in one week before a playoff game that presumably had never been allowed to see practice?
*hasn’t
That makes no sense. Why wouldn’t he be able to observe practice and who said he never did? A analyst can observe practice and games as well as be on the sideline. They just can’t coach….
Besides Sark knew kiffins offense better than anyone else and Bama didn’t really have a choice once Kiffin checked out… Let me ask you something. How many people have you seen accuse Auburn of Cheating? They must be right?
I should have said “participated”. No one hands the keys of their offense to someone that’s never stepped foot on the practice field. That’s just idiotic.
Who said he hadn’t been on the practice field? He can watch all day… He just can’t coach the players. He can interact with the other coaches as an analyst…. He had also worked with Kiffin before and knew his offense… You’re reaching..
He doesn’t mention his steroid infused teammates or the mega-church in SC that raises money for a “needy” family that happens to have a 4 star or 5 star son that clemson is recruiting. In his defense, Dabo probably keeps that on the down low, because Dabo is all about the down low.