Isn't scoring 73 points on your opponent a little over the top?

[KellySyracuse]

South Carolina St may be an awful team, I'm not sure but lighting it up to 73 points is a little much. I hope it's Clemson's biggest win this year.

 

[Tobias Funke]

South Carolina St may be an awful team, I'm not sure but lighting it up to 73 points is a little much. I hope it's Clemson's biggest win this year.

Depends on how it was done. If the second half was primarily 2nd and third stringers running the ball then it is what it is. I didn't watch so not sure what Dabo's approach was.

 

[longislandcuse]

No.

I see that score and I'm impressed. I'm sure recruits and pollsters think the same.

 

[cuseguy]

Coming off a thumping, that's what schools like that do.

Punks.

 

[MadNY3]

South Carolina St may be an awful team, I'm not sure but lighting it up to 73 points is a little much. I hope it's Clemson's biggest win this year.

If we could, I hope we would.

 

[SUfaninAZ]

So glad I didn't grow up in the everyone gets a trophy era.

 

[Chip]

Was South Carolina St forced to play the game by the Governor?

They get their payday.

 

[wfschrec]

SU put 70 on RU and 66 on Miami in the Dome and I didn't shed a tear .. who cares?

 

[OburgOrange]

SU put 70 on RU and 66 on Miami in the Dome and I didn't shed a tear .. who cares?

The good ol days

 

[TexanMark]

Was South Carolina St forced to play the game by the Governor?

They get their payday.

Yes SC and Clemson are mandated to have to play in state 1AA rivals

 

[Chip]

Yes SC and Clemson are mandated to have to play in state 1AA rivals

Then the state should step in and stop the fight.

Running up the score is by far my least favorite topic. It's still football no matter how much they try to soften it.

 

[KellySyracuse]

meh, all fair points and I do agree that not everyone should get a trophy. Rather I was trying to leave the topic open for discussion from all angles. Here's to hoping we beat the piss out of Clemson this year

 

[Briancuse]

You can't tell the 2nd and 3rd string not to try out there, they deserve a chance to get in on the action.

 

[SoBeCuse]

Meh, there have been worse drubbings...like when USC put 70 on an SEC team, Arkansas in 05.

 

[Todd Gack]

So glad I didn't grow up in the everyone gets a trophy era.

I get your point -- but I aspire to the day we all get "nuance."

 

[gocraz4dasu]

No such thing as scoring too much on an opponent.

 

[texascpa]

What the kind of thread is this? Do we need a score cap on college football OP? Jeebus I hate these kinds of threads.

 

[CUTIGER91]

FWIW, we emptied the bench. 4th string QB even played. And guys I've never heard of. Score was so lopsided bc the defense held them to 44 total yards.

And to the poster who said we and SC are mandated to play FCS teams, that's not the case, but it's kind of an expected thing to keep some $$ in state.

I hate FCS games, but everybody has a few so...

 

[KellySyracuse]

FWIW, we emptied the bench. 4th string QB even played. And guys I've never heard of. Score was so lopsided bc the defense held them to 44 total yards.

And to the poster who said we and SC are mandated to play FCS teams, that's not the case, but it's kind of an expected thing to keep some $$ in state.

I hate FCS games, but everybody has a few so...

thanks for the reply, I didn't see the game and only read a recap on ESPN but they didn't go into any analysis. I figured that the 3rd and 4th string players had to get in on the action so putting up 73 points is impressive

 

[KellySyracuse]

What the kind of thread is this? Do we need a score cap on college football OP? Jeebus I hate these kinds of threads.

relax fella, I wasn't calling for the end of the world or to initiate a cap on scoring but rather tossing a question out there on a rather slow night in the forum. Holy cow people get upset over the dumbest things.

 

[SUMBA]

South Carolina St may be an awful team, I'm not sure but lighting it up to 73 points is a little much. I hope it's Clemson's biggest win this year.

These cannon fodder teams always cash the checks. I have always liked this exchange between Lou Holtz and Bobby Bowden:

Holtz immediately recounted the 1970 meeting between his first-year William & Mary team and Bowden's West Virginia squad.

"Unfortunately, we had more Marys than Williams," cracked Holtz, whose squad absorbed a 43-7 loss. "When we met at midfield, I said, 'You're my friend, how could you run the score up?' Bobby looked at me and said, 'If you want to hold the score down, that's your obligation. If you want to make it a competitive game, coach harder, recruit better, but don't count on me.' ...

 

[Crusty]

Maybe Shafer was right.

 

[texascpa]

relax fella, I wasn't calling for the end of the world or to initiate a cap on scoring but rather tossing a question out there on a rather slow night in the forum. Holy cow people get upset over the dumbest things.

You got that right

 

[syr02esq]

If you have the opportunity to win decisively you should.

 

[mountaincuse]

No such thing as over the top. Score all the points you can.

They weren't the only team to do it yesterday either.