re: #1 prospect 5 star DE Robert Nkemdiche has a final top 3

I think the real thing that people aren't realizing about Clemson is that RN's high school coach was a college teammate of Dabo Swinney. And while they are Bama alums, I think more kids he's coached have ended up at Clemson since Dabo's been there than Bama (granted, I don't know how many Bama has offered in that time frame or how good those players are). But that is a big reason for the connection.

And while yes, Clemson fails at every opportunity on a big stage, so much in fact that Clemsoning is now a verb to describe failing spectacularly with high expectations, they still put a lot of guys in the league.