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Message: [QUOTE="Van111, post: 763652, member: 1851"] Good post and thanks for the welcome to the ACC. A few things. This game is a statement game, win or lose for our program. Besides what others have said, there are a few variables that may effect this games outcome. First, we pretty much have talent from all over the country that bigger programs didn't want, so we have a major "chip" on the shoulders of many of the players on this team. That could pay dividends in this game. Second, this is a chance for Coach Shafer to send a message to players we recruited that shunned our program and 2 come to mind on your squad, EO (Who won't play) and Kelly (Unlikely to see him on the field). Our Coach sent a message out to recruits that spurned us, and it was clear that you better chose a school that doesn't play us. We will also have quite a few new recruits in attendance. Don't think that isn't a little in his mind, even though it is probably way back there. Third, the unknown. The Dome is more that just a Hot Box or Loud Stadium. It is that, I can assure you. But it is something that most players really never understand until you play in it. Some teams handle it, others clearly melt in it. Ask Geno Smith and Teddy Bridgewater. What makes our Dome different than any other? Its on campus and they sell beer, and mind you, us Upstate New Yorkers like our beer. I agree the start will be very important as to the output of the game, and I could also agree the score could be high, but that comes to our last variable, #4...the number 4 has very special meaning, especially when you put two them together. Like this.....44. And that my friend is a variable we have all been waiting for and its return. I know the talent level will be hard to compete with, but i think we are being taken a bit to lightly, and Clemson, like almost all the ACC teams in the last decade it seems, finds a way to lose games. This will be the wake up call, Orange get ahead early, Clemson mounts a comeback but is overwhelmed at the end. I got it Syracuse 44, Clemson 28 I warned you about the number 4 after all. [/QUOTE]

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