Clemson football: 4 stages of grief for Tiger fans

The Clemson football program hasn’t been this low in quite some time.

As a matter of fact, you likely have to go all the way back to the year 2010– in the infancy of Dabo Swinney’s career as a head coach– to find a time where the Tigers looked this bad offensively.

The poor offensive performance, unfortunately, has led to two losses in the first four games of the season and many Clemson fans don’t even know how to act.

So, today, as we learn to cope with what we’ve seen thus far, we’re going to look at the four stages of grief for Clemson football fans and take a look at what we can do to move forward as a fanbase.

The four stages of grief for Clemson football fans

1. Denial

Unfortunately, there are still many Tiger fans who sit in the first stage of grief and that’s ‘denial.’

If you ask them if there’s anything wrong with the program, they’re tell you you’re crazy for even asking that question. They’ll point to the past successes of teams and talk about how this has just been a bad start.

It’s tough to stay in denial for long when you see the product that has been put on the field the first four weeks of the season, but it’s certainly still a stage that many fans are going through and some will choose to stay in that stage no matter the outcome or what we see unfold in front of our eyes.