1. It’s not about when you get them. It’s about the ones you get.

Slow and steady is Clemson’s tried-and-true formula.

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Those two paragraphs are how we closed last week’s edition, and they were indeed intended to foreshadow the considerable subsequent advancement with the Tigers’ recruiting class – movement you’ve now seen, and chips still to fall.

We’ve expressed the sentiment in various forms recently, and here’s the blunt form: Just because Clemson went without a commitment for nearly two months doesn’t mean the Tigers lost their recruiting mojo.