Dan Radakovich spoke in the beautiful mountains of Big Canoe Ga..

- said that pay for play if it happens at all likely years away... problem is how would you compensate everyone in every sport whether in football or title 9 sports... and do starters get paid more on the football team and other sports?
- denied that lots of Hs talent is not playing football today because of fear of head injuries etc but that it may be occurring in day the 8th/9th grades - said this is being studied all over the US and there are no major negative trends
- not a fan of the portal and says unequal treatment on transfers must be sorted out eg Tate Martel
- says there is a study underway to potentially move some/ most of the non Power Five playoff bowl games to the first game of the season( don’t ask me how they choose the teams) but 42 bowl games is 84 of 130 D 1 teams that go bowling
- Clemson largely built its success by focusing on the Top Three sports and for that reason has no wrestling team ( and won’t) and for the first time adding women’s softball next season
- says TV coverage is keeping fans away from the stadiums and is a serious threat to college football
- says Dabos contract 10 years for $93 million was a deal as he is a generational coach
- cool fact despite the 42 bowl games almost EVERY single one of them had a higher TV rating than both basketball games with Duke and UNCheat( shocking)
- said Clemson has had success because of the aforementioned football first mentality and new President Jim Clemons who arrived in 2012
- also Dabos ability to recruit great QBS has been the difference maker ... he mentioned their turn around all started with Tajh Boyd when they beat LSU in the Peach Bowl in 2012/13 and afterwards Watson and the current WB.. plus they just picked up the number 1 qb recruit in the YS from California
- says Dabo smartly preaches his Christian message without violating the rules ( Atheists May disagree)

Some good stuff and he is a terrific guy who clearly knows what he is doing...since their first MNC the number of their in state students applying increased from 11,000 to 22,000!

Things are good at Clemson and they won’t take a step back anytime soon!

We can learn a lot!

Go Hokies!