Two weeks ago when the Clemson Football team showed up at the White House for their visit. I wrote a crazy Hot Joint entitled “The Hustle” where I said that the media was so distracted by the fast-food that nobody asked where the rest of the Clemson football team was. According to all of the reports there were 76 people in the entire Clemson entourage which included players, coaches and administrators.
I immediately said, Hold up dawg!! There are 85 scholarship players on a Division 1 football team. Then there are at least 15 or so walk-ons. That’s at least 100 people right there playa, not to mention coaches and administration. So there should have been at least 125 people there at the bare minimum. So where are the rest of the players and why are all of the media outlets showing the team photo from their visit from 2017 and not from that particular Monday night?
When I pointed out the hustle boyz were running on us everybody started blasting me for trying to make things up and trying to create a story when there wasn’t one. Now the truth is coming out that it was all a hustle and the Root has exposed what I already knew to be true. At some point y’all are going to start listening to me.
The Root spoke with three black players on the Clemson football team and they all confirmed the same story. Both black and white players refused to go to the White House because of who the President was and his decisive policies and behavior. They confirmed that most of the white players went and nearly 75 percent of the black players did a “Kizzy.” In my Kunte Kinte’ voice, “That means to stay put.”
One of the offensive standouts spoke with the Root on a condition of anonymity and said this, “It wasn’t like we had a team meeting or anything. Players were talking amongst each other but everybody was like: ‘I’m not going to that.’”
Another player on defense told them that the coaches didn’t pressure the player to go to D.C. but most of the black players didn’t want to go. Those that did were younger players worried about their playing time and losing their scholarships. Therefore, only 15 black players made the trip and 11 of them were freshmen. The others were sophomores. There was only one senior that made the trip and only 6 players that showed up were on the national championship depth chart according to the Root. So again, they hustled us because the cats that actually played in the darn national championship game wasn’t even there.
That same junior defensive standout told the Root, “Not saying anything against the players who went, but if you look at who went—freshman and people fighting for playing time—you’ll see what I’m talking about.”
Here’s a link to the Root article so you can read it for yourself.
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! At some point y’all gone start listening to me. I told you that foolishness two weeks ago and you acted like I was crazy. I didn’t need to interview players on the team to tell you that the football team didn’t show up and why. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Kizzy: noun – Kunta Kinte’s daughter from the movie and best-selling book “Roots.” Her name means “Stay Put.”