Dabo rumblings

[Yard_Pimps]

I don't think Dabo wants to merely "survive". He has tasted winning in a much bigger way than the Clemson fan base has and he probably isn't going to hang around and be "almost great". I think it depends a lot on how strongly he feels about the portal, NIL and the upcoming direct paying of players by the schools. He has always been pretty vocal about being opposed to all of those things. I guess we'll see how committed to his values he really is.

One thing is certain; unless he has blown money like no one in history ever has, he isn't going to stay at the job because he needs the paycheck. It wouldn't surprise me much if he walked away in the next year or so.

I agree

 

[spur4evr]

They suck. He sucks. All I got.

All you need!!

 

[FootballLVR]

Those fans are spoiled thanks to him. He's had 1 bad loss this year. Other than this past Saturday, and the expected loss to UGA earlier this year, they've looked rather good.

Careful! People are going to start calling you a tater!!

 

[HI Cock1]

Pat Forde had interesting take on possible coaching changes in the off season

Napier out replaced by James Franklin
Cignetti to Penn State
Stoops to Indiana
Chadwell to Kentucky
Dabo to Liberty
Todd Monken to Clemson with Venables
as DC
Rhett Lashlee to Okla
Lincoln Tiley to Smu
Kalen DeBoer to USC
Demeco Ryan’s to Alabama
Whew…I think that covers it

Where is Lea on this list? Surely he won't stay at Vandy will he?
Why would Franklin leave PSU?!? Happy Valley > Gainesville by a mile.

 

[Atlanta Cock]

Well, they haven't played anyone with a winning record to get those victories. So you think they looked good against the cupcake of the week? I smell a Tater

Dude.

 

[GivEmDaSpurs]

He would be a fool to leave and Clemson would be a fool to let him go.

It's funny to me how quickly Clemson fans forgot their history. Prior to Dabo they were mostly a good to pretty good team over the course of their history. Now they act like they absolutely have to be a title contender every single season. It's just not sustainable. With exceedingly few exceptions, any coach who stays at a program long enough will have ebbs and flows.

It's just funny to me that Clemson fans now view themselves as such a program that they could just kick Dabo to the curb and bring in someone else who will absolutely replicate his success.

They would be advised to take a look at Bama. Yeah, they were "slipping" under Saban, going 3 years without a title (gasp!), missing the playoffs one of those years and getting in last year based on name association alone. But Saban still turned over a Ferari to DeBoer. Are they still very good? Yes. But they're not the best team in the SEC and they have some noticeable chinks in their armor.

Reality is, when it comes to the portal, there are more misses than there are hits. Fans have been conditioned to think the portal is the fix-all solution. It's not.

I don't know about him fitting with another college program. Odds are he would not find the success at another program that he has had at Clemson. Very few do. And, no, I agree, he is not a fit AT ALL for the NFL. He's a great college football coach, but greater college coaches than him have tried and failed at the NFL. Almost all of them.

 

[hotchkis]

To do the same thing he did at Clemtech. Be the CEO and hire some talented assistants to coach the team.

his style of motivation would not work for grown men in the league though I don't think. Maybe I'm wrong.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

Where is Lea on this list? Surely he won't stay at Vandy will he?
Why would Franklin leave PSU?!? Happy Valley > Gainesville by a mile.

I can see UF firing Napier, but not PSU firing Franklin, and to your point Franklin has a good thing going at PSU, it is the MAIN school in Pennsylvania, at UF, he would have to deal with Miami, FSU and lately UCF for recruits. Does not seem like there are a lot of enticements to leave, regardless of pay increase.

 

[will110]

As ridiculous (to us) as it seems, there is always a chance Clemson moves on from Dabo. All it really takes is for the fans to turn on him to the degree the administration can’t allow it to continue. Even Dabo may grow tired. Perhaps he knows he doesn’t have the caliber of staff like in the past and sees the fabric of what he created unraveling.

Frankly, while I’m not a prognosticator, it’s hard to imagine Clemson administration not riding out this season and hoping things settle down.

But if Dabo retires or they move on from him, they will be fine. After all, it’s not the SEC. It’s the EZZ. They might have a Miami or a SMU in contention but winning the conference championship and making the playoffs can still be a goal. They just might not make it as often. And if they do make it to the playoffs, they will always be—to use a Tater figure of speech—the midget in the room. Their glory days are behind them and their fans will have to adjust to being mediocre again.

I don't think Clemson has the money to move on. His buyout through next year is $60,000,000 and $57,000,000 in 2026.

 

[will110]

Where is Lea on this list? Surely he won't stay at Vandy will he?
Why would Franklin leave PSU?!? Happy Valley > Gainesville by a mile.

Lea is a Vandy graduate. He seems like a guy who'd be happy to stay in Nashville.

Furthermore, I don't think one solid season would be enough for many larger programs to want to make a move for Lea. He was abysmal his first 3 years at Vandy, a combined 9-27.

 

[will110]

I can see UF firing Napier, but not PSU firing Franklin, and to your point Franklin has a good thing going at PSU, it is the MAIN school in Pennsylvania, at UF, he would have to deal with Miami, FSU and lately UCF for recruits. Does not seem like there are a lot of enticements to leave, regardless of pay increase.

Right, especially since Gator fans are going to be just as unreasonable as Penn State fans. If they want to run him off for winning 10 games every year, UF would do the same thing.

 

[Rodemi]

Where is Lea on this list? Surely he won't stay at Vandy will he?
Why would Franklin leave PSU?!? Happy Valley > Gainesville by a mile.

Both are not coaches big schools are after

 

[HI Cock1]

Both are not coaches big schools are after

Penn State's not a big school?

 

[Rodemi]

Penn State's not a big school?

The fans would love to see him gone Excellent at Vandy No performance in big games at Happy Valley

 

[Backyard Archer]

Where is Lea on this list? Surely he won't stay at Vandy will he?
Why would Franklin leave PSU?!? Happy Valley > Gainesville by a mile.

His list was satire. It's obvious the people in the thread didn't read it.

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[PrestonyteParrot]

Can Clemson's four-year slide be boiled down into a single preposterous decision by Dabo Swinney?

 

[GlockCock]

I wonder if pro players would respect him? (Serious ques

Laugh at him would be more likely.