All right, we're pleased now to be joined by David Hale of ESPN. He covers the ACC for the worldwide leader in sports

and you got to give him a follow-on Twitter. He's got one of the best Twitter handles out there.

A David Hale joint. David, thanks for joining me. I really appreciate you.

Hey, it's my pleasure. Happy to do it.

Well, one thing that really caught my eye after this, Georgia, well, I guess he was a former Clemson corner,

but going to Georgia, I hope I'm saying his name right here, Darion Kendrick, by all accounts,

a really, really good player for the Tigers, but as you noted here with your research you did,

that Clemson, not necessarily better with him on the field, can you kind of expound upon that

and what, you know, kind of let our Georgia listeners in on what they're getting in a guy like Kendrick?

Yeah, well, first of all, he is incredibly talented. I mean, this is a highly recruited guy,

came into Clemson as a wide receiver, actually, but just like superstar level athletic ability,

long athletic fast, really good, I think natural skill set. At the time, Clemson had a pretty

big nut at receiver and definitively needed some help on the back end of their defense.

So in spring ball a couple of years ago, he made the switch over to corner and picked it up really

quickly. I mean, he essentially ended up a starter a few months after after learning the position.

So, I mean, the dude is a natural talent. There's no doubt about it. The other question that I

posed and I think a lot of Clemson fans still wonder is, is he capable of building on that natural talent,

or is he strictly reliant on it? Because what you got was a guy who held a pretty well in man

coverage, particularly against lesser opponents, struggled in the playoff, did not handle zone

situations quite as well, and was pretty consistently in defensive coordinator Brent Venable's

doghouse. So he struggled to get on the field at times last year because Venables was upset with

him. And of course, there was an off field incident and the off season that led to Clemson in

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