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Orange Blooded [2845]
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Thanks for posting - great article***
Sep 19, 2019, 9:56 AM
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Orange Blooded [2397]
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 9:58 AM
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Wow. A fantastic article. I have said many times that I am glad Dabo is coaching somewhere, more so that he is here.
That Charlotte coach sounds like he is cut from similar cloth. I love the scholarship announcements. It will be fun to see how they progress over the years.
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 10:07 AM
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Personally, I feel SCAR college lamecock coach Muscrat is a wonderful coach. He is bright, caring, energetic and a real innovator in the game. I hope he will be allowed to stay there another 10 years to "fully implement his system." The lamecocks are lucky to have him.
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Legend [16646]
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That article is yet one of many that
Sep 19, 2019, 10:11 AM
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Explain quite clearly why Venables is at Clemson. Dollars to doughnuts, he'd be a head coach somewhere now, had he not joined the Tigers. Now that he has, he fully embraces who he is...Jimmy Greenbeans! Compensation comes in many forms...and when you're fortunate to be in an environment that nurtures and enriches your own human spirit and convictions...man, that's rich!
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 11:48 AM
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Yeah great article and I agree that the scholarship announcement was genius and sounds so like a Dabo idea. Lots of fun
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Orange Blooded [3639]
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 10:10 AM
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That is an amazing article!
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Legend [16427]
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Coaching trees
Sep 19, 2019, 10:18 AM
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Saban has an extensive coaching tree, but it is built kind of like a Bradford Pear...quick growing, flashy, many branches, but brittle and unstable. Bradford Pears also famously have very finite, relatively brief, life spans.
It will be interesting to watch Dabo's coaching tree grow and develop, because I think his will be more like a Live Oak. Strongly rooted, slow growing, but substantial and long lived. There will be a relatively small number of significant branches (assistant coaches), but a huge number of smaller branches. These will include proteges with indirect coaching relationships, but what I think will make up the largest number of branches will be the players who grow into coaches. This oak tree will stand forever, and will produce a seemingly infinite number of acorns (players) who will take root and start their own trees.
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Great article.
Sep 19, 2019, 10:36 AM
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Dabo is the real deal, for sure.
I recall reading about the unbelievable job Healy did at Austin Peay. I had forgotten where he went after he left there.
Thanks to this article, I'll file this away in the back of my memory banks: After Taggart has been at FSU for four years, if things aren't working out, there's a young coach named Will Healy that we might want to take a long, hard look at.
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awesome article. I don’t remember
Sep 19, 2019, 10:37 AM
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Signing up for the feel trip
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All-TigerNet [12270]
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wow! great article.***
Sep 19, 2019, 10:39 AM
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Re: wow! great article.***
Sep 19, 2019, 10:57 AM
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And Dabo's influence spreads to us too. Just reading about him is a lot of fun. 
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My, my, my Mr. Hale . . . . that's a LONG way from certain
Sep 19, 2019, 10:53 AM
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OTHER interactions you have had with our guy.
Very well written & an incredible testimony from someone that sure seemed like a naysayer just a few short years ago.
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That’s awesome.***
Sep 19, 2019, 10:54 AM
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 11:03 AM
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#### good read!
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Orange Blooded [2613]
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Great article! Thanks for posting! +1***
Sep 19, 2019, 11:06 AM
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 11:06 AM
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Wow. Just wow. Glad others are starting to appreciate what we already know. I have admit that my eyes filled with tears of pride as I read this. We are so blessed to have Dabo.
Also amazed that Saban lost 6 assistant coaches. I knew there was a huge turnover at Bama, but 60%? Wow.
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 12:57 PM
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Dabo's coaching tree is not a tree in the classic sense of limbs having sprouted from the original tree trunk. Its more like he is giving away cuttings that can be planted elsewhere and bloom much like the original, but with individual differences that reflect the soil & climate where they are planted. We are unlikely to lose enough coaches to grow a very impressive tree in the traditional sense.
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Re: You just have to take a breath, sit back.....
Sep 19, 2019, 12:25 PM
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and know right now we're in the glory years. Right now.
I began remembering player names around the later 80s. Followed coaches that had pedigree, and virtual promises to be the next big thing. Always to fall shorter than expected.
I think back often now, looking to those days, to contrast the days we're in. Man, we're blessed to have this situation. Truly special.
Flip side.... I feel sorry for the young ones only accustomed to winning. There will be another time of despair. Live it up. Enjoy this now. Right a blog/diary/notes to keep around. These days are definitely worth remembering.
Thanks for the share! +1
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I posted earlier about my kids, who took some lumps as fans
Sep 19, 2019, 12:33 PM
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initially, and are now reaping the rewards for their loyalty and belief.
I became a fan during the Pell years, so I was initially spoiled from then until I graduated Clemson in 1990. I really only knew success as a fan. But I got to live through the next 20 years of ups and downs, so I can really appreciate what we have now!
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Re: I posted earlier about my kids, who took some lumps as fans
Sep 19, 2019, 3:25 PM
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My son grew up watching Clemson football during the Bowden years. There were a few times he got so disgusted I thought he'd never watch Clemson football again. Now he is in his early thirties and goes to every game he can and watches every other game. I thank Dabo for saving my son from football exile??
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 3:48 PM
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We're very fortunate to have Dabo. Not many coaches can get everything out of his players like Dabo can. I hope he stays here until he retires
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Shhh, don't let the secret out...
Sep 19, 2019, 4:11 PM
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...oh shoot, can't keep it in a bottle forever. Let's just hope our competitors don't take a swig outta the bottle.
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fantastic article, thanks! ***
Sep 19, 2019, 4:44 PM
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 4:47 PM
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Outstanding.
Leave no doubt, Coach.
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Re: New ESPN article on Dabo - link attached.
Sep 19, 2019, 5:57 PM
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sadly Tigernet only posts the articles where Clemson appears slighted. This piece was great.
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