One week. Seven days. That’s all that’s left between us and the season opener against Georgia.
A week from today the Tigers and Bulldogs will kick off the season, a few seconds or minutes after high noon, on ABC. The long wait – 246 days – will be over.
Our access during Clemson’s August camp is limited, at least from a watching standpoint. We have three or four opportunities to watch the start of practice, usually stretching and a special teams period and drill work, and then we are booted from the premises. We are not allowed to watch the PAW or WIN drills (old Oklahoma drill), so our perceptions are gained from those brief viewing windows, talking to players and head coach Dabo Swinney (we no longer are allowed to talk to the coordinators during camp), and what we can glean from those viewing windows that we are allowed to observe.