843 orIginally and I am also a USC alum. To start every Clemson fan I know think Miami is a bunch of thugs. Most fans are pretty arrogant but when it boils down to it they are softer then cotton candy. I’m happy to say I’ve seen Miami whoop that *** a couple times over the years when the hurricanes went up to Clemson and had the privilege of knocking out a couple of their soft *** friends for blind siding a friend of mine as we were walking out of the stadium(this was when I was at a South Carolina Clemson game)
Coaching Dabo is as fake as their fans are. He plays that southern boy I’ll be your best friend but reality is he is just a good cheerleader. I don’t know Miami specifically but I know he negatively recruited South Carolina saying for years spurrier was going to leave(then he did) I also know he broke down crime rates on the city of Columbia vs Clemson (clemson has a college and a grocery store and that is it so obviously the capital city is going to have more crime). I don’t know about players being paid specifically but with how much out of state talent they have pulled for years I think soemthing fishy has to be going on. USC made their run with primarily High school kids from South Carolina(Clowney, Alshon Jeffery, Stephane Gilmore, Melvin Ingram, Marcus Lattimore (was at the Tennessee game that ended his career)etc). Clemson bought their players and a lot of them came from Georgia and Florida.