Later this afternoon the Clemson football team will make the trek from the locker rooms in the WestZone to the practice fields, crossing Perimeter Road and unloading in front of the indoor practice facility. The familiar clack-clack of cleats on concrete will fill the air as the team files onto the practice field for the official beginning of the college football season.
And they’ll do it with confidence.
Indeed, these are heady days for a Clemson football program that suffered through a 6-7 season in 2010 and a humbling loss in the Orange Bowl the next season.