Talk:Clemson

RFV discussion: January 2020

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Clemson

"To perform uncharacteristically poorly, well below expectations." Appears to be US sports slang, so I have thus glossed it. I can see some references to "Clemsoning" in Google Books so that might be more attestable than the infinitive "Clemson". Equinox ◑ 00:07, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

cited, although I have failed to find any use of the term applied to any team other than the Clemson Tigers. Kiwima (talk) 22:03, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Looks good to me. If you know the etymology then please add it. (Was this a very bad sports team?) Equinox ◑ 04:56, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Clemson was the NCAA college football champion last year and is playing LSU for the championship this year on Monday. They face weak opposition in their conference and so their record (14-0 this season) is not a good indication of their likely success against opponents in championship play. However, seeded number 3 in the BCS championship, they beat the number 2 seed, Ohio State. Losing to LSU would not be performing below most expectations.

I don't think this is really general sports slang, rather than a case of disappointing Clemson fans, who can easily develop inflated expectations because of the weak schedule. DCDuring (talk) 19:58, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

This isn't a thing specific to Clemson, in the US version of the Office Andy talks about how he "Schruted" something, referring to Dwight Schrute. This can happen with any name, to refer to something behaving in a manner typical of the entity with that name. Search terms like "Harvarded it", "Cornelled it" and you will see other examples. - TheDaveRoss 13:11, 10 January 2020 (UTC)