First given to thencoach Frank Howard by a friend in the early 1960s, the rock was mounted on a pedestal and placed at the top of the hill behind the east end zone at Clemson Memorial Stadium in September 1966. The first time the team passed the rock on its way to the field, the Tigers beat Virginia 4035. Howard, realizing the motivational potential of "The Rock," told his players, "Give me 110% or keep your filthy hands off my rock." The team began rubbing the rock as part of its entrance for the first game of the 1967 season..As for the American Samoan thing well a football scholarship is the best way a talented young man has for getting off the island and into an American university. Much the same way that young men from independent Samoa, Tonga and Fiji pursue rugby programs in New Zealand schools. So they take it very seriously..

EXPECTATIONS: Following freeagent spending spree, new starters projected at 11 positions. That's a lot of change, and i