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I'm All-In with Dabo and here's why (not what you think)...
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Oct 11, 2023, 2:09 PM
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I'll be the first one to admit I've questioned Dabo's lack of change as the primary force regarding Clemson's 3-season slide in the polls, but something hit me this morning that we should, at a minimum, give him at least a few more years before we start to call for a replacement. While his previous championships are a good reason, they are not the best reason.
I noticed that the moment Dabo's new house was shown to the public was when the decent in the rankings began. I first thought this was a sign of "fat and happy" Dabo and it made perfect sense that his fire would have been reduced or gone completely. Then I realized quite the opposite. It's not because Dabo has everything that we will fall as a program, it's because Dabo has everything that we will continue to succeed.
Dabo literally has everything. He as a great wife, he has a great family, he has one of the best paid jobs in the country at one of the best schools in the country. He has a great foundation laid already with school amenities and success. What is the one thing Dabo doesn't have that he could possibly still want very badly?
LEGACY. Dabo is not going to have his legacy tarnished when he already has everything one could hope for in life. He still has a lot to gain or lose despite what it may seem.
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Oct 11, 2023, 2:12 PM
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Re: what***
Oct 11, 2023, 2:18 PM
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Either you are barely awake, high, have a reading comprehension issue or a logical processing problem.
For those like this dude, let me explain it more clearly. Scottie Pippen has one of the most successful careers in pro basketball history, yet has been actively tarnishing his legacy with his public bitterness in recent years. So, while Dabo has had extreme amounts of success, I don't see him allowing the program to go through a 5-10 year slide that would ultimately impact his long-term legacy. We are still in great hands.
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Re: what***
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Oct 11, 2023, 2:53 PM
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A legacy is leaving an impact. A legacy is about your past accomplishments. Dabo has already cemented his legacy at Clemson and in the college FB coaching profession. He reminds us quite often of his past accomplishments and those accomplishments will live on even if he never wins another championship of any kind.
I don't think legacy is now driving Dabo. I hope not. I would rather he be driven by being devoted to God, family and seeing that Clemson University has the best FB team in the land and mentoring young men to be successful in life and in the NFL if that is where they have the talent to excel. I guarantee you that is Dabo Swinney. When he sees that he can no longer be that person, he will step down. He will be revered by former players no matter how many more games he wins or loses.
Only a selfish person with a huge ego chases a legacy. That is not Dabo. Is he perfect? Hail No. No one on this earth is. Can he be criticized for making mistakes? Yes. It comes with being a highly paid successful person. Does it mean we want to get rid of him. Hail no, so all you folks that think he is above criticism, get over it. I personally would not trade Dabo for any other coach at this time. But it does not mean I agree with every thing he does or that he could do some things better. But until someone comes along in the future who is better, Dabo is the GOAT Clemson FB coach.
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Re: what***
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Oct 11, 2023, 4:52 PM
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I don't think that anyone could defend Dabo anymore than I would and have on many occations right here on T-Net. I will say that Dabo made mistakes in his coaching hires when BV and TE took HC ing jobs, and being that Dabo built this program to the heights that it's been over the past decade plus, I feel that he should have seen before now that the choices that he made didn't work. Will he correct those mistakes before they bring our program down to the level that it was in before Dabo, God know that I hope so, and he don't have but a few years to have it all corrected, or we will have to wait and see if the next HC will be smart enough to do what Dabo done to get us to where we were.
My biggest worry about Dabo changing the direction that he himself put our FB program into, is his stubbornness to prove he was right yet again with his home grown coaching staff, and we all know that he made absolutely no effort to find proven coaches until he brought Garrett in. But if anybody will just go back to 2020, you will see without a doubt that our offense before Garrett was working well before Dabo replace the coaching staff with mostly inexperienced coaches, our offense was working well up to that time and way before, only recruiting in those years may have caused us to vary on the score board from year to year, but the coaching was pretty solid, and could have gotten better with a change here or there, but no huge changes like was done when we lost BV, TE, and the assistance that followed them... IMO, Dabo's mistake was not looking on the outside of Clemson for experienced coaches to replace what left for their opportunities elsewhere over the rookies that Dabo had stashed wherever he could put them!!!
https://www.tigernet.com/2020-clemson-football-schedule
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Re: I'm All-In with Dabo and here's why (not what you think)...
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Oct 11, 2023, 2:22 PM
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As Walter White so elequently said, "I'm in the empire business."
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