Lanning already shut down A&M in a press conference.

I don’t understand David Shaw. Was pretty good at Stanford for a few years, but sucked and got fired for a reason at the end.

As far as Kingsbury, his age is his best shot. Just because he is offensive analysts at USC, it doesn’t take any credit from Lincoln Riley’s main control of that offense. Also, Kingsbury has not accomplished a thing his whole career. Yeah he’s shown some signs of being a really good one, but never came through big.

Jimbo Fisher has to be a consideration. You know, he has a different approach and personality than Dabo in some areas. But, he’s shown to have integrity and respect. And he stands for his team. And he has had elite years where he was a top-5 coach. He would use the portal and all of that more of course, and it’d be interesting to see if it would work.

I also think you’d have to consider Garrett Riley. Despite this last season, there are obvious improvements in overall offensive. The turnovers will diminish with time.

The turnovers are what make Clemson a 4 loss team. Once they erase after the transition to this new scheme and coach, it will run fluently.

So…Riley was a tremendous hire, and I think if Dabo left, they would honestly consider this hire. He’s a good young coach with lots of character traits that obviously fit in Clemson, SC.


Some names that may not be expected, Elijah Drinkwitz, Luke Fickell, and if Shane Beamer ever showed lots of improvement, then yeah I’d consider him. He’s a good person.

I also think we would push Brent Venables. It seems like he’s got a good thing going for him at Oklahoma though. But I’m sure Neff would probably at least reach out. Brent has become a faithful person under Dabo, and now has been outspoken on those values within his life. Knowing that Brent has these fond memories of growth at mainly Clemson, he may consider it. The community would also love him.

Jeff Scott. Clemson ties as well. And while there is no proof of him being a successful head coach, his recruiting is at a proven high level. I think he’s a 4th choice or so.