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It’s time for the #DaboSwinney era to end and time for Clemson to make a change. · The Facts with Jamal 🇺🇸🦅👊

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  You know, normally I'm not a person to say the words I told
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  you so, but I told you so and work as far as Saturday night
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  was concerned, if you watch the game between Clemson versus LSU,
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  everything that I've been saying leading up to that game pretty
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  much validated and confirmed about two things.
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  Well, it was really only A1 sided affair.
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  But regardless, what essentially confirmed for me was that this
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  season very well might be the end of Dabo swing and Clemson.
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  The 41 point ass kick and they suffered from LSU on Saturday
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  night was the worst loss in his nineteen seasons with the
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  program. I mean, if you really watched
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  the game, or at least part of it, I mean there was almost,
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  it's almost laughable the way LSU worked in the way Clemson
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  did. So I mean, that's how bad it
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  was. Happy Labour Day everyone.
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  I hope everyone is enjoying their three day weekend.
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  But now I am going to talk about how after Saturday night's so
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  lacking at the hands of LSU and potentially moving forward, why
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  this season is more likely to be double swing's last with the
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  Clemson Tigers. So last week I had talked about
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  how Saturday night's season opener for Clemson and LSU was
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  really going to tell the tale of how those two team seasons could
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  potentially go as far as expectations.
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  While there was no doubt that both Lane Kiffin and Dabble
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  Sweeney had something to prove, it was really more so Dabble
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  Sweeney that I took more of an interest than than Lane Kiffin.
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  See, I pretty much knew Clemson was probably going to lose the
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  game, but I thought at least before the game started because
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  if you remember, there was about close to an over hour delay due
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  to weather there. But I thought before it gave.
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  Well, I think Clemson will lose, but I still think they're going
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  to put up a competitive effort in spite of that.
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  When kickoff finally came around, I was dead.
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  Not only did Clemson prove that they didn't belong on the field
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  on Saturday against LSU, it was like a contrast of the two
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  teams. LSU looked like a team that was
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  essentially more ready, more prepared and more focused
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  despite, you know, the noise surrounding them and their head
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  coach. While Clemson, on the other
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  hand, they essentially look like AJV high school team.
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  Now, that might be kind of being nice in all respect, but let's
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  just be real honest. I mean, this game, it was pretty
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  much over at halftime, and that's actually when I stopped
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  watching it because when LSU was up by 4 touchdown, A4 touchdown
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  margin, I essentially turned my attention to video games.
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  I mean, that's how bad this game ended up being for them.
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  And you know, I was just about to turn the channel and I just
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  happened to have the game on. Then by the time halftime ended
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  in the second-half was about to begin, I essentially saw a half
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  Henry Stadium. Now mind you, LS U's Tiger
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  Stadium is also nicknamed Death Bowie.
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  At best only given night it could have balling standing room
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  only at least 110,000 people. There was a round for what I
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  read, 102 to 103 at the game on Saturday night, 103,000.
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  By the time else you got uncomfortably, most of those
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  fans left because they probably thought, you know, Clemson will
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  put up a better fight. But by the time the second-half
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  began, those LSU fans said, well, we appreciate the ass
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  kicking you're giving Clemson, but we're going to go do
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  something else. I mean, does that really say it
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  all as to how that game went on Saturday?
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  But to make Madison worse, as far as Clemson is concerned,
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  like I said in the open, it just looked like they didn't even
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  belong on the same field. And of course, there was no
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  surprise when after the game was over, Dabble, Sweeney
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  essentially said. And he didn't really shortcut
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  it. We got a long way to go after
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  this loss tonight. Oh, Clemson has a long way to
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  go, all right. The crux of all this, however,
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  is will there be you? Could head coach even be around
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  for the long term? Look, it's no question that
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  during Dabo's nineteen seasons with the program, he has
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  established himself as one of the top tier coaches in college
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  football. I mean, his 1% is around 77%.
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  He has two national championships.
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  He's been the four national tile games.
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  But as I mentioned last week or about a couple weeks now, his
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  reluctance to adapt to the modern times, to college
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  football has really started to really come back to haunt him.
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  See, I can like I said, respect why Dabo is up the old school
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  mindset that you don't necessarily go reach in for the
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  transfer portal that you build from recruitment homegrown
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  talent and you hope to win from there.
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  But again, it's not really so much of the fact that he hasn't
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  really had the success the program as expected to last him
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  four years. But you can also say in a way
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  he's been kind of exposed as a coach.
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  See the two names I have bought up recently that you can
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  attribute Clemson's success over a decade prior, Chad Morris, who
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  is back with the program as the offensive coordinator and Brent
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  Bendable, who was the architect, you can say of those great
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  Clemson defenses as a defensive coordinator.
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  He's now with Oklahoma as the head coach.
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  And if you watch them over the last couple years on their
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  stewardship, he has gotten that program back to being kind of
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  how like when Barry Schwitzer had those great Oklahoma teams
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  of the 70s with those defenses. So you can kind of say in a way,
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  Chad Morris and Brent Benables essentially made Dabble look
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  good at times that I don't think people even realize.
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  And while that is not to say Dabble isn't a great coach, I
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  mean, the winning percentage in the championships obviously
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  speak for themselves. So why hasn't he been willing to
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  really get with the program as they say, as far as
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  modernization of college sports, a lot of people attribute that
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  to the reality that he's either too stubborn and not willing to
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  actually want to adjust to where the game is today.
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  Some say that he's forgotten how a coach that whatever had worked
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  from in the past isn't working now and he needs to essentially
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  find a different gear as far as coaching style or essentially be
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  shown the door. But the thing I I think people
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  haven't bought up is, and unfortunately I have to go here,
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  it's that when he was at the top of his game, he had that
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  success, You know, when he was in his 40s, OK, as far as his
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  age, he's now in his mid 50s or to tearing to his late 30s.
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  Usually you want to be able to change some things about
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  yourself when you get to that point.
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  But if you aren't willing to even do that, then that's more
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  of an indictment that you've been too stuck in your ways for
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  so long that while everything is changing around you, you haven't
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  been willing to actually go along with.
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  But look, as far as the parameters of this season for
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  Clemson, I normally don't put much stock into, you know, just
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  one game in football, college or professionally.
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  And I certainly don't put stock if it's, you know, baseball,
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  basketball, hockey over the first hand, four games of a team
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  struggles first couple weeks. But here is why ultimately last
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  this past size laws against LSU and in the manner which it
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  happened has a century signed, sealed and delivered devil's
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  faith with the probe. If you looked at Clemson's
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  schedule, you look and you say, well, they could probably still
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  win the conference 'cause if you remember a couple years prior,
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  they had suffered a just kind of similar to sanity against LSU.
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  They had gotten blown out against Georgia, but they were
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  able to rally and end up winning the conference.
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  I actually don't see that scenario happening,
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  unfortunately. You look at their schedule and
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  you will say, well, they have a fighting chance against North
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  Carolina and Bill Belichick. I'm on the fence about that.
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  I do not know how, and it's just just something the Nora boats
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  are pointing out. Outside of North Carolina, I
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  have little confidence they'll do well against Miami.
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  Virginia Tech, keep your eye on that one 'cause I think that
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  could be a sneaky good game. And the other game that I might
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  have concerns about that is against Duke.
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  Unfortunately for Dabo, that's where I think the problem lies,
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  that he will never be able. He can't have this season go any
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  worse because look, I said for at least two years that he
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  should have been fired but or at least mutually, you know,
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  mutually agree the part ways, blah blah blah.
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  But here's what ultimately he doesn't get a pass for.
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  What if he doesn't ultimately have another great season and
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  everything goes once again underachieving wise and the
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  program not only doesn't completely turn it around but
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  ends up having another disappointing year?
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  What will the athletic director and let's just say the Board of
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  Governors within that program, the boosters and all that, what
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  are they going to do if they end up suffering another
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  disappointing year? Some decisions are going to have
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  to be made and work. I can easily sit here and give
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  a, you know, just my own thought about how if that would have
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  happened, Dabbles really needed Clemson to just mutually part
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  ways. Unfortunately, I actually don't
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  see that part happening. And look, while there was no
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  deny what Dabbles meant for the Clemson program, we can also
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  acknowledge his many shortcomings the last couple
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  years. Not only with his reluctance to
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  not really modernize himself along with, you know, what's
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  going on in college football, but it's the fact he hasn't been
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  able to really understand. He's become his own worst enemy
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  in more ways than one. Now, if you go back to last
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  season, after Clemson had lost a game at home in which they
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  really had no business losing, a Spartanburg, SC, reporter had
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  kind of asked Dabble Swinger about, you know, was he worried
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  about his job security or something along the lines of
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  where do you think things have gone wrong?
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  Dabble apparently did not take too kind to that, and he
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  essentially teed off on the reporter.
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  They even asked him. And it was more like, in a way,
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  how dare you question my coaching acronym, my
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  credentials, everything that I've built here since being
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  hired over a decade ago, and yet you want to question me where
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  everything has gone wrong? It was essentially him saying to
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  that reporter he he was giving them the middle finger for even
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  asking that. And if he stormed off after, I
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  actually don't remember that part, although if he did, I
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  would not blame. But, and here's why I will come
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  to the defense of that report. Dabo, in all honesty, man, you
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  handled that in the worst way you could.
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  He was they were simply asking a question after what was, yes, a
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  tough loss, but you going off and that said report was
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  completely outlandish. And to me, that moment right
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  there from last season essentially has to capsulate
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  what has gone wrong with Clemson the last few years.
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  It's been the man that Century acted like a petulant toddler
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  and people are criticizing him because he hasn't been willing
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  to modernize himself while the game has.
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  And look, the last thing I'll say is as far as Sweeney is
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  concerned, do I actually believe that Clemson would fire him?
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  I mean, it would be hard for me to say they wouldn't
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  considering, you know, what he has meant for that program.
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  And then I believe it was Kevin Clark of ESPN that has said had
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  they actually decided to go this route after the season, there's
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  a huge buyout that probably will have to happen.
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  But you know what, any like those things can be easily
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  solved. I mean, just buy out the guy and
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  go forward. But it is unquestionably clear.
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  After signing nice slack against LSU, Clemson is in a dire
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  situation of being just another college program.
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  And unfortunately, whether or not Sweeney will admit it, he's
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  at the forefront. His reluctance to really
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  modernize himself, really do more, even with lesser talent,
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  that part of it is his own doing and his unwillingness to look
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  within himself and realize that I am the problem that I'm not
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  admitting has ultimately led to this point.
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  And who knows? Maybe Clemson can turn their
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  hopefully season around if you're a Tigers fan, and maybe
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  win the ACC and go on a deep playoff run.
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  Who knows, but the the way last side this past side it showed,
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  it showed clearly two things. That Clemson is nowhere near the
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  same level of where they were from a decade ago and that that
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  is an indication of how the rest of the season will be.
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  Then it's time for Devil Swing to be shown the tour.