Re: Here's why Dabo IS the problem....

RunJumpCatch · 2025-09-14T21:25:02.290Z

He is trying to teach humility to a bunch of kids that are only interested in creating wealth for themselves and their families while they have the opportunity to do so. Nobody is gonna listen to a man making 11 million per year, living in a giant lakeside mansion talk about how money isn't important and football and leadership is what really matters. It's hypocritical. He does not...CAN NOT.... relate to kids in this college football era. He is surviving off the Clemson brand that he built. Recruiting is surviving off the Clemson brand. Kids coming to Clemson are coming to get paid...not be ALL IN. Dabo is way out of touch. The Clemson brand is fading. The ALL IN era is dead.

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Sep 14, 2025, 5:51 PM

So in other words… theirs nothing funny game has passed him by? Right?

Some have been saying that for a couple years or more and have gotten nothing but pushback or called a coot.

But the OP is exactly right but that’s only half the problem. The other half is actually coaching and X’s and O’s which has never been Dabos strength.

Surrounding himself with yes men while we watched our proven assistants leave and replaced them with Dabos friends and family people. People that don’t have the gall to challenge him on anything or any facet of the program.

As you said… Dabos strength was managing and recruiting. Building relationships in recruiting and trying to impress mom DO NOT MATTER anymore.

It’s all about identifying the players you need to go get and then doing whatever it takes to get them like everyone else is trying to do. Would we get them all? Of course not but we could still fall back to option 2 or 3 instead of falling back to option 6 or 7 which explains why literally almost HALF of this roster has no business being on scholarship at a place like Clemson.

I did a list on here sometime last year with 30 players on scholarship that have no business being on scholarship here bc they aren’t good enough.

One poster said he would save that list for down the road and bring it back once Dabo won big again. I wish so much I remember who that poster was bc id love to ask him what he thinks about that now.

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There is no more "eye test". Thanks to the demise of the PAC-12, the ACC still has a seat at the table and an automatic bid to the playoffs. I want us to blow every team off the field, just like every other fan does. But the truth is you don't have to, just win your conference, and that starts with beating the conference teams on your schedule. Can we still get to the championship game? Yeah, it's possible but now that it's the top two teams and not a divisional thing, that loss to Tech made it a lot harder.

I'm not saying Dabo needs to start poaching players from other schools like some coaches have done. But why not use all the resources at your disposal to their fullest extent. And that might include having to make some hard decisions and even hurt some feelings. Now more than ever college football is about money. It's not about what you did last year or five years ago or about what you might be in two or three years. It's about winning now. Putting fannies in the seats now. Getting big corporate sponsors for NIL now. And putting the very best product on the field now. Now if what we've seen so far this season is the best product, then fine we'll have to take our lumps and rebuild in the off season.

Here's why Dabo IS the problem....