Open competition season is roster retention politics
Dan Rubenstein
"This is also like open competition quote-unquote season."
Context
Dan turns the Clemson discussion into a broader fall-camp framework. Even when one quarterback looks ahead, coaches have incentive to keep the backup publicly engaged because the portal makes every QB-room hierarchy unstable.
The point applies beyond Clemson. Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Iowa, and Clemson all have varying degrees of real competition, but the language around those competitions also protects against losing the next quarterback before a starter has fully proven himself.