This Clemson fan is whistling past the graveyard. They talk about development, but I remember when real development happened, when George Welsh would take a two-star kid and turn him into an All-American by his senior year. That was development. Now? They’ve been living off that one golden era with Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence, and since then, what have they really built? They’re getting out-coached in the ACC regularly now. Their foundation isn’t development, it’s getting the five-star guys everyone else wanted and hoping they pan out. That’s not some secret sauce. We built pros too, real ones. Think of Chris Slade, or Thomas Jones, guys who came in and were forged over four years. That’s a culture. Clemson’s culture now is just trying to hold onto what they had, while the rest of the sport, the real sport with rivalries that meant something, passed them by. They act like they’re above the portal, but you watch, they’ll be diving into it headfirst soon enough when those high school recruits don’t save them. The draft lists will start to thin for them, just wait. It’s cyclical, and their year is trending down while they’re still bragging about yesterday.