Clemson Football: 5 Things I Want To See At Spring Game

So the annual Clemson Football Spring Game is drawing near and as a student I would always get excited to see just how good the team was going to be going forward based on what I saw at the “Orange and White Game” (as I was told it was called all the way back in the late 90s and early aughts.)

Apologies to my readers, just wanted to use the word aught. That would be be early 2000s for those less apt to seek out “fifty cent” words for sport.

However, what I have learned over the course of my fandom of the Tigers and especially once Dabo Swinney entered my life, was that the Spring Game is not indicative of how the team will be come September. The game is a showcase of sorts that gives guys a stage to work on things that need to be worked on. A glorified practice, if you will. A dance recital after weeks of practicing with only the teachers eyes on you sort of thing.

Understanding that I am not preaching anything new to you readers, but it dawned on me to not take the Spring Game to heart. We, as Tiger fans, have had our hearts broken by some overwhelmingly strong performances in the spring only to be disappointed when it did not translate in the Fall. Last season alone Dabo RAVED about Ajou Ajou who also made a spectacular catch in the game. How’d that work out? Ask Jeff Scott down there in Tampa.

But I digress.

All that word-salad to say, here are the five things that I will most like to see in this years version of the Orange and White Game: