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Paw Warrior [4828]
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Name one active coach youd rather have as our coach
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Sep 6, 2025, 2:48 PM
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Other than Dabo? For me, I’m happy with our current head ball coach. Will be surprised in anyone can make a coach that they genuinely rather have than Dabo.
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Re: Name one active coach youd rather have as our coach
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Sep 6, 2025, 2:53 PM
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Brent Venables. He and Oklahoma were not a good fit and he inherited a very bad situation left to him by Garrett Riley's brother.
BV would be a great HC COACH AT CLEMSON.
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Paw Warrior [4828]
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Sep 6, 2025, 3:00 PM
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JYT - you’d take him over Dabo right now??? I’m a BV fan too but wouldn’t give up a two time national championship Coach, 10+ conference championship for a head coach who has not yet proven he can do that.
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Re: Name one active coach youd rather have as our coach
Sep 6, 2025, 3:36 PM
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The OP said "RATHER THAN DABO".
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TigerNet Icon [157893]
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You could also say Tony Elliott.***
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Ring of Honor [23074]
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UVA Humor. Like it.
Sep 9, 2025, 2:46 PM
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DW4, CW42, the Power Rangers, and TL16 had more than bit parts.
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Re: Name one active coach youd rather have as our coach
Sep 15, 2025, 4:50 PM
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Well, we did have a pick 6 and scored a TD off another interception… so 7 or 14 depending on how you want to look at it
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:24 PM
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Dabo has 2 titles because of Venables and the assistants he had. How can a you defend what he is putting on field now ? I have been told
About all this talent we have so that’s even worse on Dabo. If he has this talent we keep hearing about then it must be coaching dude . Dabo is currently not even one of the best coaches in the ACC . All he did was with Venables , Scott , and the assistants he had. Since they left we haven’t looked like a well coached team once .
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Re: Name one active coach youd rather have as our coach
Sep 9, 2025, 1:18 PM
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I know. If he'd won two more ACC titles in the last 10 years for 10 of 10, he might slip past Doeren or Cristobal.
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Re: Name one active coach youd rather have as our coach
Sep 7, 2025, 10:08 AM
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DW4 and TL. Facts are those 2 guys carried those teams. And Jeff Scott called the offense. Venables at the defense. Swinney is a CEO. Not X&0's. I still believe that he is handcuffing the offense. It's my opinion but if Swinney put down the playsheet I think things would improve.
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Orange Beast [6519]
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Jeff Scott did not call the offense
Sep 12, 2025, 8:28 PM
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Tony Elliott and Dabo did that.
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:10 PM
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The HC from SMU. Rhett L
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:19 PM
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The only that just blew a 14 point lead against a bad Baylor team?
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:10 PM
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Dan Lanning
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:20 PM
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The one who can't win with the biggest budget in college football?
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:26 PM
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Yeah, just give him time.
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Re: Name one active coach youd rather have as our coach
Sep 7, 2025, 10:04 AM
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If I could make a hypothetical bet as to who would do better, I would pick Dan Lanning but
1) He hasn't proven that he could perform to what was once "Best is the Standard," even with resources.
2) He is not going to leave the money at Oregon to come to Clemson.
Everybody that I saw mentioned are at programs with a lot more resources. Maybe they could do better, but none are a given, and none are leaving their current programs.
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The whole who would you rather have is how people miss out on Kirby Smarts, Ryan Days, and other up and coming, unproven coaches. Heck that’s how you miss Dabo
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Sep 7, 2025, 10:15 AM
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Matt Campbell - Iowa State
Year in year out he puts an extremely competitive team on the field. His resources are limited and he doesn’t get a lot of 4/5 star recruits. Does a good job of developing lesser known players and using the portal to fill in the gaps.
Players play hard for him and the culture of his program seems strong.
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:13 PM
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Dan Lanning, no doubt about it.
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Legend [7096]
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Marcus Freeman, Dan Lanning, Kirby Smart
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Matt Campbell, Ryan Day
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:18 PM
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Kirby Smart is the correct answer.However I’d prefer Dabo especially Prime Dabo.
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:18 PM
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Kirby smart
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Sep 7, 2025, 8:52 AM
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Kirby hasn't won anything of note without Stetson and his players leaving one another for dead on the side of the road drunk racing.
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Orange Elite [5567]
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Easy, Dan Lanning.***
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:21 PM
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Dan Lanning, personality like Dabo but has adapted to the new world of CF…
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:25 PM
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Easy. In no particular order: Lanning, Lashlee, Lane Kiffin, BV.
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Sep 6, 2025, 4:28 PM
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Dan Lanning
Kirby Smart
Ryan Day
There’s 3 d**k head
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Sep 7, 2025, 9:16 AM
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Dan Lanning
Kirby Smart
Ryan Day
There’s 3 d**k head
Kirby Smart hasn't won anything of note after Stetson left, loses major games in the playoffs, and their roster is totally out of control off the field leaving their own brothers and staffers for dead on the side of the road. (they had their hands full with an FCS school yesterday) He's basically Dabo with a culture problem but a couple years later. Todd Monken was their Venables taking a good team to great.
Ryan Day constantly loses to their biggest rival even when favored by a ton, was given a national title ready roster and it took an expanded playoff for them to even get in last year. Most years they should've been left out. Credit to them, they are the reigning champs, but Ohio State's only had 4 seasons in the last 25 years where they didn't win 10+ games and have far more money than we do is Day the kind of coach who could elevate a program?
Lanning hasn't won anything and despite having more money than anyone got absolutely beat down in the rose bowl, 1-3 against Washington their biggest rival.
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Sep 6, 2025, 6:42 PM
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Marcus Freeman at or Adan Lanning from Oregon. Two easy choices
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Sep 6, 2025, 8:38 PM
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Venables
Andy Reid
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Sep 7, 2025, 8:44 AM
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So true. Dabo is the perfect fit for Clemson. He is a winner in coaching and life. I hope we can have him for as long as he has the fire inside to coach.
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Sep 7, 2025, 8:56 AM
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Kirby Smart
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The Only Other Active Coach That Comes Close
Sep 7, 2025, 11:31 AM
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Is Kirby Smart and he is a slime bag. I would never want him to be the head coach at Clemson. At this present moment, there is no active head coach that could even wash the skid marks from Dabo's underpants.
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Troys coach***
Sep 7, 2025, 11:45 AM
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Re: Troys coach***
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No thanks...
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Sep 7, 2025, 2:10 PM
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Does Lanning bring all his natty hardware with him?
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Sep 9, 2025, 12:30 PM
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Jon Gruden
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UNCLE RICO***
Sep 9, 2025, 12:31 PM
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Better the HC you don't know
Sep 9, 2025, 1:08 PM
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than the one you do.
Or something like that?
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Sep 9, 2025, 1:10 PM
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Ted Lasso hands down!
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Re: Someone has to say it..That Smart guy from UGA.
Sep 9, 2025, 1:21 PM
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I think some of you "replace the coach every year we don't win the natty" cats were related to your spouses before you married them.
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6 years of steady decline is not what you just described.***
Sep 9, 2025, 1:29 PM
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Lol Smart is just Dabo a couple years later with a terrible culture. players getting killed and left on the side of the road by their teammates. They've stumbled since Todd Monken left. He's their version of Venables, taking a good team to great.
They struggled with Austin Peay.
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Kirby Smart is the top college coach
Sep 9, 2025, 2:54 PM
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Nick Saban-trained. Still hungry. But no interest in Kirby who will not leave UGA anyway except to go pro. Kirby's style of off-field leadership and discipline makes Hugh Freeze look like saintly. I still believe Dabo could/might go NFL route with the right Christian owner courting him.
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There are certainly other coaches out there that are BETTER coaches
Sep 9, 2025, 3:08 PM
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than Dabo right now. None of them were better last decade, and none of them (with one notable exception) have a resume that can approach Dabo's, but it's 2025 now, not 2018.
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Sep 9, 2025, 4:02 PM
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If Coach Swinney happens to leave for whatever reason I would look no further than
current HC at major university Div 1 who is 35 yr old been coaching since 17 yrs old
has mentored under Mike Norvell, Gus Malzahn, and Dan Lanning as their OC and QB Coach,
He was named Top recruiter of the year, named Co-Recepient 2024 young new HC of year,
Has taken struggling programs and produced winners, but the main thing this guy is young,
has outstanding offensive skills, and bottom line He is Hungry.....hungry to establish
winning CFB at the top of the mountain. His name Kenny Dillingham current HC of Arizona
State. Look up his bio very interesting to say the least.
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Sep 9, 2025, 4:56 PM
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Before he came we were nothing...while he has been here we are on everyone's lips...when he leaves we will be searching for another great one...who graduated more players (we are still a university), how much trouble do our players get into, how ashamed are you to be a Clemson graduate (not directed at coots on this site)!
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The interesting thing about it to me is that it is easy to see what Venables, Reed, Morris, Brooks, and others have brought to the staff from a game day coaching standpoint. Tough to know exactly what Swinney has brought in that regard.
Obviously he has been great at establishing a culture, and pre-NIL he was a great recruiter.
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Sep 12, 2025, 8:23 PM
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You dumb a$$es must not remember what happened to Clemson Football when Danny Ford was fired, what do you people use for brains?
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Re: Name one active coach youd rather have as our coach
Sep 12, 2025, 8:26 PM
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Dabo as HC is perfect with some different assistants possibly.
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Sep 12, 2025, 8:28 PM
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Steve Spagnolou
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Dan Lanning
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Not happy with dabo and his constant rear view mirror proclomations to explain away our current yearly regression into mediocrity. He is NOT earning his bloated salary and it should be restructured to include a bonus for results attained. Coaches I would rather have is largely irrelevant. And, btw, it is no fans responsibility to select coaches we give money cheer and or complain. Besides with dabos current contract nothing is going to change unless dabo changes. Neff is too spineless to tell King dabo to use the portal and remove the useless eaters from the roster. Sorry to say it but cfb has changed in a BIG WAY and dabo still thinks we are only 1 play away.
BY THE WAY can someone please remind me which play it was that cost us the LSU game because I remember it as LSU taking a knee after driving the ball down our collective throats to go ahead. Nevermind the home town discount we got on the LSU TD being overturned.
Clemson fans are waking up to the reality that Dabo has become a talker and not a doer.
And a few other things that irritate me why is Dabo using our best offensive player as a kick returner? With 105 scholarships maybe he can go find that kid that is too small to play at Clemson but has returned 10 kickoffs for TDs. Maybe he can actually try and use st as a weapon and not a liability. And I am talking punt and kickoff returns and punt block schemes.
All is not right in Tigertown my friend, and in summation, it is not a matter of if Dabo will no longer be the HC at Clemson it is just a matter of when. He is starting to remind me of a cross between Ray Goff Bobby Bowden and Tommy Bowden.
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