No. I don’t think Dabo would have made it in literally other situation in college football, in any other era. Just right place at right time.
Very similar to Orgeron, except Dabo is slightly less hard headed, but still way too bad. Croom is this type of coach too, except extreme hard head. I think there’s probably a very rare situation and era out there that he could have succeeded too (well, no, probably not).
There are more of these types out there, but you really have to check your ego and let your coaches coach. And you can’t lose that edge in recruiting. And hell Dabo did most of that, but just totally self imposed his doom by intentionally ignoring the portal.
But it’s over for him now. He’s not gonna get back.