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Dynasty Maker [3375]
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Why would Dabo change
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Nov 18, 2025, 1:02 PM
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Probably way off but Dabos has already reached the highest you can take a college program, twice, and won a ton of conference championships along the way. He helped put a lot of players into the NFL and has a number 1 overall pic to brag about. Only a small handful of coaches can say that have done that. He has accomplished all this by doing it his way, while also staying loyal to his friends and former players to a certain extent. Only way he is going to change is if Neff has to lay the hammer on him and tell him what he needs to do to get back to where the program was 5 years ago and I don't see that happening. Maybe we will all be shocked once the season ends and he does what all the fans and boosters want him to do. Dabo not chasing any first anymore outside of a Heisman winning player and I don't see that anywhere in the near future unless he embraces what every other winning program is currently doing.
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Fairly balanced interpretation of CDS's...
Nov 18, 2025, 1:11 PM
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likely perspective/current ambitions/incentive to change-
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Hall of Famer [9081]
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Re: Not About Him Changing ....But We Just Want Him To Wake Up ---
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Nov 18, 2025, 1:26 PM
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Wake up....open up the entire window.... fight back instead of being punched on.....fix the structure of what he built... because it was showing bad deterioration.
He was better off saying ...that he got completely complacent and relaxed after all the wins and championships....and that he was still soaking up the moments.... experimenting with different players ...and just having fun with the whole process.
That might have worked or been believable...if the powers that be and the big spenders didn't go ahead and completely mess with the college football format. Now every year is going to be more serious than ever. Dabo has to get more serious and pick his spots logically to have fun. Having a NASCAR guy come in and burn up tires when we really needed to be focused on LSU ....the SEC....in front of the entire nation was not the best of ideas.
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No.. He was better off saying
Nov 18, 2025, 1:32 PM
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That he is going to give geeville tiger better seats.
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Re: No.. He was better off saying
Nov 18, 2025, 2:32 PM
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Re: Not About Him Changing ....But We Just Want Him To Wake Up ---
Nov 18, 2025, 4:57 PM
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If we know anything about Dabo Swinney, heās all about optics and talk. That worked pre-NIL and transfer portal, now highly rated recruits/players want money and guaranteed play time. Heās the Blockbuster Video of college football.
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Tiger Spirit [9420]
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Re: Why would Dabo change
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Nov 18, 2025, 2:10 PM
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Not sure Neff is going to have to force Dabo to change. I want Dabo to be who he is, which is a winner with integrity! Like you said he has done a lot for our university. Yes, he has been slow to change, but I think he has learned a lot this year and already began to evolve last year by dipping into the portal for 3 guys in a year when we had most of our production coming back and the second most in the country. He hired Kelly an NFL guy to evaluate talent, so with all we are losing this year I have to believe Dabo will use Kelly to help us use the portal more. Maybe not 15-20 like many programs, but more like 5-10. He is embracing NIL, but we may not have the money that Ohio State and other large blue bloods have. Will he run off players for lack of production? No, but I like many fans and grads am fine with that. If we sign a kid and he is doing everything we ask and has bought into the program I am fine with keeping him on scholarship as long as he is working hard to make himself and our team the best.
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National Champion [7884]
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Re: Why would Dabo change
Nov 18, 2025, 4:37 PM
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Well, I donāt think he (or we) are tired of winning .. I think weāre in the lower half of the ACC and Syracuseās only conference win was blowing us out in the Valley .. why wouldnāt he adapt, use the portal and try to get us back on track? If everything stays the same..we stay the same ..
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Re: Why would Dabo change
Nov 18, 2025, 4:49 PM
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You vastly overestimate how of us are included in your "all" comment. If you had a chance to listen to Dabo's press conference today you heard a perfect explanation of how hard it is to have the numbers right. There is a bottom line number that sits there and any coach has to subtract graduates, players that leave for the NFL and those that leave for the Portal. Once you have that number, you add high school signees and then Portal signees to get to the bottom line number. There is only 1 two week Portal period so every player going into the Portal does so in that time. Sure, many players announce early that they are leaving but some wait to the last minute and that makes hitting the scholarship number so hard.
If you are trying to talk about coaches and their relationships, you have to look at who are primary coaches compared to those that are not. Most of our primary coaches came from somewhere else and we all know that Dabo will pull the plug if he feels he needs to. Will Dabo have that feeling after the season, only he knows.
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