Clemson football: Sometimes transferring is the best thing

Every time a Clemson football player transfers there’s a gnashing of the teeth from a certain segment of the fan base.

Because they love Clemson, some can’t understand why anyone would ever want to leave the hills  in the Upstate of South Carolina.

These players that want to transfer must be misguided, confused or home sick souls.

Maybe.

Sometimes though transfers are good for both the team and player that leaves and that appears to be the case with Lyn-J Dixon.

The article linked above details the situation from the perspective of the players who remained and were in competition with playing time with Dixon.

I believe what they’re saying and can understand how they felt as the situation developed.

This article looks at it from Dixon’s point of view.

It seems like Dixon’s decision to transfer was the best for all sides and both sides are better off for that decision being made.

I liked Dixon as a player, but he was home run or strikeout, with a large variance in yards gained/lost on average.  He may gain 14 or lose 6, you just never knew.

Sometimes things just don’t work out the way we feel they should and I’m reminded of the old adage that there’s three sides to every story: Yours, mine and the truth.

This is despite the care and effort the staff puts into the recruiting process, not offering kids until they’re pretty sure he’s a fit, not just athletically, but academically and personally.

It generally pays dividends, but things change.

Whether it was a misunderstanding or a sense of entitlement is not important any longer.

A while back I wrote that there’ll be transfers after the spring game and I still believe that to be true, despite the injuries and opportunities many will get in that game.

And that’s OK, because if someone doesn’t want to be at Clemson, you shouldn’t want them to be there either.

As a certain head coach likes to say, “Worry about the ones you have, not the ones you don’t.”