CLEMSON, S.C. – Early Wednesday morning at approximately 6 a.m., the case protecting Howard’s Rock was vandalized by an unknown individual. Clemson University Police are investigating the incident.
The damage was reported by construction crew members working on renovations to the suite and club levels of the stadium. Police were immediately notified, and the investigation continues. Damage was limited to the glass case protecting the storied rock, one of several security measures put in place following vandalism which occurred in June 2013. The pedestal upon which Howard’s Rock is attached was not damaged.
Clemson has removed the Rock and its pedestal from its permanent location atop the hill in the east end zone to secure it until a replacement covering is available.
“Howard’s Rock is a very important and visible part of our campus and our stadium, and we know many students, alumni and fans come to see it throughout the year,” director of athletics Dan Radakovich said. “We’ll work to quickly have it back in its home and available for all to see as quickly as possible.”
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Somebody at MooU needs to watch Big Bang
Use the 3D printer and make a replica of the real rock. Put the replica on display 24/7 and display the real rock only on game days or special occasions – I’m sure Seal Team 6 can be contracted with to provide security on days the real rock is out and about town
Then the real rock can go back to its rightful place as a doorstop
I pray to Jesus everyday that Clemson can find security measures strong enough to protect a rock.
They’re working on it. Right now the priority is covering up the Hipps case.
Since obviously you have, as usual, all the “inside information” I am sure you have shared it with the appropriate LE (which is Oconee County not Clemson). If you haven’t then I have to assume either you have nothing or that you are withholding evidence from LE.
If I had information, I sure as Hell would not share it with Rosco P. Coltrane and his deputy Enos.
Funny how Clemson got rid of the associate VP who tried to make fraternities more accountable, replacing her with an over-the-hill Clemson true believer when people started asking questions.
So you have no information. Why am I not surprised.
I have the same information everyone else has, and I am confident in stating that the case is being dragged out intentionally in order to protect those who know exactly what happened as well as the reputation of the university.
So you are in possession of the complete files on this case that are held by the Oconee County Sheriff’s office? How did you obtain said information?
Wow, you must be so fun at parties, old man. Your posts are a constant strait of mundane gibberish. We liked it better when you hid like a coward for 5 straight years when your boys lost to THE USC. I really wish Dabo hadn’t mortgaged his young QB’s future just to beat THE USC this year. That way you would have remained underground. Everything will be righted this Nov. when the Cocks start a new streak. Maybe this time your coach should set a clock for trying to beat FSU instead. HA!
That’s THE UofSC to you now, THE USC is thousands of miles away and has won conference and national championships.
As Squishy has already noted, Clemson has not lost 5 straight years to Southern Cal. Maybe you meant Carolina. No, that name is taken already by UNCheat.
Have you been underground for 66 of the last 112 years?
It’s a fucking rock….
1000 years from now, someone’s going to find that rock under the rubble of what was once the stadium…and they’re gonna go “Why the fuck would someone have put a rock in a clear plastic box? Where they retarded 1000 years ago?”
The average USCe Dirtpecker fan wouldn’t know a tradition if it bit him in the ass. The only tradition USCe Dirtpecker fans know is to leave at halftime so they can beat traffic out of the industrial park.
How would USCe Dirtpecker fans feel if someone maliciously scratched their only record of 2001?
that’s funny
Worshiping a rock is something the rest of us leave to primitive tribes in uncivilized areas of the world.
The Scots say Hi. The Stone of Scone. Beats worshiping the discharge from fire extinguishers.
Kind of like grown men wearing shirts that say “Love my Cocks”?
Yeah, USCe Dirtpecker fans have evolved into worshiping chickens.
Yeah, USC puts chickens in glass cages and rubs them before every game.
Hey it’s been recently announced that the University of South Carolina is no longer USC, it is UofSC. USC is now officially the University of Southern California. Also the interlaced SC is also a patented symbol for the University of Southern California.
http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/
Shaq announced his nickname was the Big Aristotle, but nobody gave an eff.
He probably would have had more success if he’d have tweaked it to “Big Cross Eyed Aristotle”.
Hopefully we’ll see him do a cameo on “Mike Tyson Mysteries”.
Umm, use of that twitter handle is not “official” abandonment of the initials.
The specific interlocked SC with red and gold is a registered trademark. But it’s just initials. Can’t trademark initials. You can trademark the design. It is still in court whether USC’s design of the SC initials infringes on the SC initials design of Southern Cal.
So there was no announcement of the former or latter. And there is no patent.
So I could rewrite your entire post with semantically equivalent words as “Wrong. Wrong. And wrong again.”
So why is anything official coming out of Osborne these days labeled “U of SC” and not USC?
No they just build electric powered carts to drive chickens around on before every game.
Squish, you forgot to mention they like to fuck in the dirt in the parking lot.
Not worth mentioning, it’s just a typical USCe student date night.
Funny to hear the voice of non-traditional everything on Fits suddenly remembering how important traditions are. I guess in Squishy’s world the tradition of rubbing a rock before a football game for the last 30 years >>>>>>>> greater than the tradition of marriage being defined as a man and woman for the last 6000 years.
Since when have I said marriage shouldn’t be defined as a man and a woman?
So now you’re a bigot?
Are you a faggot?
Careful, your Clemson education is showing.
You mean I’m making sense, unlike that USCe diploma mill rag you hang on the wall?
BTW – I’m not a Clemson graduate, I’ve only been to the campus twice.
Imagine how bad you’d be had you went there for 4 years.
Couldn’t be any worse than if I had gone to this Michael Brady designed campus in Columbia. USCe should change their school colors to tan, every fucking building on this campus is sun faded tan.
Hey, I’m not for current marriage being redefined, but I’m not so crazy as to think marriage has been one-man one woman for the past 6,000 years. Solomon and his 700 wives and 1,000 concubines would disagree, as would Joseph Smith and all the sister-wives.
Squishy what are you doing posting? Shouldn’t you be stalking some kids you sick predator?
I’m new to all this. What does the “e” mean? Nobody at my office has a clue. I get the Dirtpecker reference!
USCe = USC-east.
As of recent, it’s officially UofSC, because Southern Cal won the rights to use USC.
OH, so you are a Clemson fan now? You can’t seem to keep up yourself. You weren’t one when USC beat Clemson 5 times in a row, but now you are back to admitting being orange? Typical of your thin-skinned lot.
No not a Clemson fan, just not a Dirtpecker fan.
I realize that’s confusing to Dirtpecker fans, because they’ve been taught that if you aren’t a Dirtpecker fan, you automatically are a tater fan.
I don’t know, “where” they retarded?
Oh no! I inserted an “h”. Your butthurt is well justified!
Just thought it was funny that you USCe Dirtpecker fans feel so perfect and superior to anyone else.
lol…actually I’m not a “Dirtpecker”, I’m an outsider that normally steers way away from any discussion in regard to USC vs Clemson…I think it’s all crazy…but especially the rock worship.
Why is it crazy? Do you have a favorite sports team? If you do, then chances are that there are traditions that are unique to that team, too.
“It’s a fucking rock…”
And?
What is your favorite sports team?
Not sure I have a favorite. I like the hapless Browns. But I like watching sports for the high level athletic competition, not the ritualistic nonsense.
That said, just because I like any team doesn’t mean I have to like their ritual peculiarities. It’s a fucking rock.
Pro team. Figures.
Much like they are fucking cowbells at Miss State. Or, a fucking sign at Notre Dame. Or, a fucking car at Georgia Tech. It’s fucking tradition. And, it’s what makes college athletics fucking great.
“It’s fucking tradition.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw
Maybe he just likes Johnny Football…
Dude knows how to party.
I like him just as much and in the same way you do.
You’ve got a FatHead sticker on your office wall too?
lol…yea, on mine he’s got a beer in his left hand while getting a blowjob from his hot girlfriend and throwing a football to Josh Gordon.
It’s called, “The Bust Trifecta”
I may have to get rid of it after he comes out of rehab,
So what’s your view on cock worship?
Are we speaking of men or women?
Apparently around here it’s men worshiping it.
Well, I’m alright with women worshiping cock.
“Howard’s Rock” has to be one of the dumbest “traditions” in football. I can sort of understand the “war eagle” tradition for a school whose mascot is a tiger but a rock? Wait, I get it now.
You wouldn’t happen to love Cocks, would you?
GameCocks…
Second only to the tradition of piping in a rooster crow during sporting events.
No that would be running down a slip and slid yelling “WEEEEEEEEE!!” Gayest entrance ever!!
Gayest? Strong words from a fan base that wears shirts that say “I love my Cocks”.
come on now Hun. just because you and your team are the little piggies and go we we we all the way home (although we know you aren’t little)
You ought to hear the Big Cock Crow on Fridays!
**fill in your own joke here**
I guess they could pick a 1960’s movie theme song and and play it while running out of a tunnel and being shot at with fire extinguishers.
We’re in the same damn poll you’re stupid rock is in: http://fanindex.usatoday.com/2014/10/27/the-10-best-entrances-in-college-football/
And what tradition does your school have?
We’re in the same damn “top ten College entrance polls” as your stupid “rock rubbin”…
http://www.foxsports.com/southwest/lists/the-10-most-exciting-college-football-entrances-080314#img_9
http://fanindex.usatoday.com/2014/10/27/the-10-best-entrances-in-college-football/
I didn’t realize 2001 had been around that long. Did fans file out and haul ass in their Model T’s at halftime back then too?
That leaving early tradition started because we have other things to do in Columbia besides riding asses and watching the grass grow. For the last few years, we’ve seen a lot more folks when the last whistle blows. Particularly in the last five or six years, yeah, there were a lot of Cock fans watching the boss in Orange gang their heads.
Ironically those things in Columbia to do always conflict with the 2nd half of a home football game.
Or is it that you have to get the fuck out of that neighborhood the stadium sits in before it gets dark?
cue the fire extinguishers!
slip and slides are fun, so fun we take a bus half way around a stadium to go down one
…And a person in a chicken suit coming out of a shower curtain
A-This story is days old
B- Who the F*#k cares?
C- Is this click bait, in place of coherent thought?
YOU are click bait in place of coherent thought? See, you and FITS have plenty in common. Congratulations!
Rubbin’ my rock ought to be done on gamedays. Otherwise my rock should be presented among the trophies housed in the West End Zone.
I do not care which of the states largest schools win or lose, however don’t they play 10 or 12 games a year in that stadium? So roughly a dozen days use. Why can’t they just put the rock away the rest of the time? I mean really and truly it is a damn rock.
Could the Dirtpeckers save money by just running down to the lovely downtown chicken plant and grab a chicken out of a crate 5-6-7 times a year? Think of all the chicken feed money that could be saved.
Yet another redneck crime in Death Valley Jr. Wonder if the simpletons who root for that team ever think that outside of their shitty little patch of Bumblefuck, SC, NO ONE considers it the real Death Valley. That would be at LSU. Now cue the incessant orange tears: “Wah-Wah-Wah, you Gamecocks stop hurting my feelings.” LMAO
Is this the same LSU that Clemson beat in ATL?
Sorry, but Clemson was using this term way before the corn dog eaters thought of using it.
“Wonder if the simpletons who root for that team ever think that outside of their shitty little patch of Bumblefuck, SC, NO ONE considers it the real USC.”
FTFY
Their most valued possession is a rock. That says a lot.
What about the other school who’s most prized possession is a chicken? Rocks are free, chickens are about $2.00/lb. I don’t see a lot of bragging rights here.
You can eat a chicken.
Dammit Will, you knew this would happen when you posted this…150+ comments of Gamecocks hatin on Tigers, and Tigers hatin on Gamecocks. Clickbait porn at its finest.
Says the man with shirtless Tebow avatar…
Well I am Timmy Tebow; who’s avatar should I have?
The Coots are still butt hurt.
Take this rock and throw it over the fence or out in the ditch. Do something with it, but get it out of my office.