Re: Humility built it, arrogance is destroying it…

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Nov 28, 2022, 12:09 PM [ in reply to Re: Humility built it, arrogance is destroying it… ]

I have to totally disagree with you wueagle86, I disagree with you bc fans in the stands, nor fans on the internet control absolutely nothing that Dabo does or says. If fans had a slither of control over what Dabo does, Streeter nor Goodwin would be coordinators at Clemson. Clemson until this and last season was a top 5 elite program, and it has lost ground to a point of barely being a top 15-20 program with nothing about it elite with the exception of a lot of its talent, and with that talent ONLY is the only reason Clemson won against Wake Forest, NC State, FSU, and Syracuse. By talent only is the reason that Clemson won those games. It was clear that the lack of coaching was the reason that this team has looked so bad when against our tougher opponents, and the only way to fix what happening right with a pissed off Dabo, and a pissed off fan base, is for Dabo to clean house and bring in an experienced coaching, and there is no better time to start making some serious phone call than last week.

But know this, when Dabo was the interim HC, I was one of not very many saying that may be Dabo should be given a chance to try his hand as the HC at Clemson, that comment got me chewed up and chit out. When Dabo was actually given the chance to be the HC at Clemson, again I was one of very few Tiger fans that was happy about it, and I preached for Dabo more than ever bc, I googled everything that I could find out about Dabo Swinney the man, and everything that I found out about him was how hard of a worker he was, and how smart he was with adapting to whatever he chose to do, like being a very good WR's coach, and one of the best recruiters in college FB.

It was the things that I read about Dabo that had me believing that Terry Don had made a good gamble on Dabo, but only if the rest of the administration was willing to give him time enough to get his feet planted as a 1st time ever HC. I felt that Dabo would be a successful HC, but not in my wildest imagination did I ever think that he would be as successful as he has been at little ole Clemson...

BC of Dabo's education, he has an MBA, Master's in Business Administration, and anybody that knows what a HC's job really is, and all that is required of HC's, then you know that a HC with an MBA has to be a plus+ plus+ plus+ bc, being a HC is like running a business, you have to keep a bunch of people moving in sink with others or it all falls apart, but in college FB, it's like starting a new business every year bc of graduation and the NCAA player limit on how long they can play. But also, in college FB time is so short with each player, you "must" have the most experienced assistance that can coach everything they know about the game and how it must be done in a 2-to-3-year period. And to be a championship FB program, you have to recruit elite players, with a coaching staff from top to bottom that are capable of coaching elite players. My self, along with thousands of other Clemson fans believe that Dabo has made his biggest mistake since becoming the HC at Clemson, he has hired a subpar coaching staff!!!

Why did Dabo do this, only Dabo knows, it could be administration or IPTAY needing to cut back on FB spending right now, wanting to put more money in other sports, I don't know, just like everybody else don't know why Dabo hired subpar, but I personally that he did. And hopefully he believes that he will be able to keep up the elite recruiting until the coaching can be fixed. What I don't understand is why would they be mad with a lot of the fan base bc they see that things aren't right with the FB program at this time, and IMO, if whoever can't see that there is a problem with our FB program either don't notice, don't care bc their love for Dabo is greater than their love for winning FB National Championships. I will say that I'm not at all impressed with winning the FB ACC championship in a basketball conference. Now according to all the major sport media, winning the SEC championship is the next thing to winning a national championship, but only about half our fan base would want to see Clemson playing our sports in the SEC, maybe they don't have the faith that Dabo could win a NC from the SEC, but I believe with top assistant coaches, Dabo could do about as well in the SEC as he does in the ACC, just not as easy, but we would recruit better players than we do now from the SEC. I just hope that Dabo gets it fixed before next season, or we will see much of the same as we saw this season. I do believe that with Tony and BV this season, we would have been undefeated and in the playoffs!!!!

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I think that you are spot on with 2 statements. First is the title "Humility built it, arrogance is destroying it." It seems to me that Dabo seems to think that he can handicap himself and remain elite.

You referenced Drew Swinney and I have no problem with him playing, but there are 11 million reasons that he does not need to be on scholarship. We easily could have missed out on Trenton Simpson and Antonio Williams because we "didn't have a scholarship available." We offered both of them quite late in the process and luckily Clemson was their dream school. That doesn't mean that we haven't missed on kids because they moved on before we reached the conclusion that we had scholarships available but chose not to use them.

This goes for the portal as well. I understand, Dabo, you don't like the portal. I agree that the better process is to build the team with recruiting, but the portal is not an all or nothing choice. If Dabo is not going to use it then the least we can do is eliminate the salary of our Portal coordinator that we created and use the money for an expense line on Dabo's contract for his sons' tuitions. We even used a scholarship on Hunter Johnson so Dabo could say that he used the portal. Johnson could have done the same thing that he has done this year as a graduate assistant, the position that he inquired about. Considering DJ's play lately, we would have tried HJ if he were here for any other reason other than to say "Hey, I brought in a transfer."

The other statement that I liked was "Best is the Standard," not "Best Friends are the Standard." It goes along with the arrogance, but it does deserve a category of its own. Unlike most, I am more disgusted with the defensive side of the ball. We probably have more talent than any of the Venables's defenses had. It is absolutely loaded and we keep getting torched. Holding Miami under 100 yards does not give a pass for Rattler embarrassing it. The worst part is that as the game went on the defense did worse. Satterfield, who most think is going to be out of a job next year as OC outcoached the anointed one Wes Goodwin and the talent gap is ridiculous.

That does not mean that I am not disappointed in the offense. I just am not sure why I think it is erratic. The one thing that I will say is not the problem is lack of talent. I don't know if it has not been developed or is not being utilized, but the talent is there. If we don't have the talent, not only did we misevaluate the recruits, but so did all of the recruiting services. There could be a kid or 2 that is a bust because they are not what we thought, but we have recruited highly ranked offensive players. Regardless of if it is development or utilization, it falls on the coaches and I will leave it at that.

So if we have a staff problem, where does that put Dabo. He could have had his pick of coordinators from 90% of division 1 programs, and 100% of the FCS schools. However, he has said that he didn't even look outside of Conn, Goodwin, and Streeter. Am I wrong to say that it is arrogant to think that there might be better coaches out there without Clemson ties? If he had done a real coaching search and decided on the same guys, I don't know that I would feel this way, but he has admitted that he didn't. To me that is almost the height of arrogance to think "They have to be the best. They're with me".

I appreciate Dabo and all that he has done for this university and that will not change. However, I hope that he does some honest self-reflection in the offseason because I think that he will be disappointed in what he sees. If the coordinators do the same, maybe they can reapply themselves and figure out what changes need to be made. If the staff can change, then maybe Dabo doesn't need to change the staff, but there must be a change or the program is going to continue to regress.

Humility built it, arrogance is destroying it…

Great post.***