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Dabos State of Mind About His Program
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Oct 26, 2025, 11:29 AM
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I know Dabo puts on a positive spin most of the time. But do you think that Dabo and his staff really get how bad this team is in every facet of the game? I keep hearing him say they never quit and played their butts off.
All I see is lack of effort, lack of physicality, being out of position, too slow, bad decisions, poor tackling when they happen to be in position, questionable play calling, and on and on! The problems seem endless.
If he only thinks it is a few little tweaks to fix this mess, it won’t get fixed any time soon, if ever.
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Re: Dabos State of Mind About His Program
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Oct 26, 2025, 11:40 AM
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I do believe Dabo is aware of most if not all the issues. I also don't think Dabo is the type of coach to tell the press mid season what they are. Not only would he be calling out individual players and coaches, it would be damaging to recruiting. I have a feeling it won't take that long after the season is over (whenever that is) to start seeing some changes. I'll admit, I might be wrong but I can't imagine he's as clueless as a lot of people seem to think.
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Re: Dabos State of Mind About His Program
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Oct 26, 2025, 12:36 PM
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No, he's not clueless. We already know that he talked to one of his most respected mentor in Saban. Saban didn't mince words. Now, that was more long term strategy on procurement of the Jimmy and Joe's. Nil, portal etc.
I do wonder if he, the other coaches and the athletes themselves had confidence in their abilities based on practicing. Ottherwords Clemson beating Clemson. But now 7 games into the season, we all know, that didn't take playoff caliber teams to beat each unit.
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Re: Dabos State of Mind About His Program
Oct 26, 2025, 5:43 PM
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Not being clueless about the problems does not necessarily mean that he WILL (or does) have an effective plan to fix these problems.
Sometimes the manager just doesn’t know how … or won’t, for the sake of his own personal belief system, take those steps that he believes would be necessary … to fix the problem.
Either way, there is a real possibility that Dabo has become an anachronism within a five year period of time.
I’m sure hoping that I’m wrong wrong wrong, and will gladly eat crow if proven to be wrong.
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Well theres two possibilities and both are bad
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Oct 26, 2025, 1:54 PM
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He either sees them and refuses to fix them because his pride/ego won’t let him
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He’s blind to them and every player and coach on this team through his eyes is a superstar
Imo it’s probably a mixture of BOTH of the above.
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Dabo's hypothesis that he could develop players internally
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Oct 26, 2025, 5:12 PM
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I know Dabo puts on a positive spin most of the time. But do you think that Dabo and his staff really get how bad this team is in every facet of the game? I keep hearing him say they never quit and played their butts off.
All I see is lack of effort, lack of physicality, being out of position, too slow, bad decisions, poor tackling when they happen to be in position, questionable play calling, and on and on! The problems seem endless.
If he only thinks it is a few little tweaks to fix this mess, it won’t get fixed any time soon, if ever.
crashed and burned this season. As hard as Clemson supporters wanted to believe this hypothesis, and even national & regional media bought in based on rankings, this season proved the inverse.
This season demonstrated a large influx of more mature & developed players will outplay programs relying on primarily internal development. This outcome was multifaceted: 1) not only were talented and capable P4, FCS, and Div II players not brought into Clemson to compete, 2) the current players took advantage of the large talent gap between them and their scholarship walk-on backups through not training as hard as other program players who were competing for their positions.
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Re: Dabo's hypothesis that he could develop players internally
Oct 26, 2025, 5:44 PM
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Not an unreasonable hypothesis of cause and effect.
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