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I'd not go that far at all. Seems that the offense hasn't progressed with the rest of the college football over the past 3-4 years. Look at what Sark did to that Alabama offense last year. Complete offensive innovation. They lose their best WR in Waddle and then D Smith goes on to win the Heisman. Sark put him all over the field and put him in positions to be able to catch the ball any way possible.

What is Clemson doing on offense? The same old stuff they've been doing 5 years ago. That's really the only thing that annoys me with the offense. It's the same stuff. I'm pretty sure Dabo knows that they need some new ideas in their offensive scheme. Or at least I hope so since I can see it as a football novice.

As for the pressers - they should get rid of Zoom after this season. All the in person questions are from the Clemson beat reporters and are quite specific in their asks. When they move to Zoom, its WSJ and NYT reporters that have no idea what goes on there day to day like the beat reporters do. They just ask generic college national football questions looking for quotes.

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Sep 21, 2021, 2:35 PM

bad play by Ross (understandable in his first game back, but that's what it was) and a critical third down drop by Galloway. GT would be being viewed differently if not for a fumble by Ooey, another third down drop by Galloway, and the final fumble in the endzone. Sure, those things did happen, no excuses, and they wouldn't make up for the offensive deficiencies, but we would be talking about this in terms of growing pains, not disaster. And we might well be 3-0, ranked #3.

But the well known deficiencies do exist, and what bothers me more is the continued coach speak of "Well, they took X away from us." Every team takes something away from every other team. The follow up question to that excuse is, "So, they put 8 guys on pass defense, and we couldn't run up and down the field against a team that lost to NIU?" That, to me, is on the offensive coaching staff, the fact that we have a team that lacks the confidence to run NIU - excuse me, GT - out of the stadium.

If you look at the O and D coaching staffs, you see two different profiles. The O is coached by ex players, from OC to WR to RB to Oline. That is great in terms of continuity and culture, but to hire from such a shallow pool obviously raises the issue of coaching ability; it doesn't grow on trees.

So, maybe Dabo went all in on ex players. I don't know. Nothing to me says that Dabo deserves anything other than a lifetime contract, because this is about a lot more that W/L. But the next year or so will show how that shakes out, for sure.