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Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
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Sep 29, 2025, 6:28 PM
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He would wind up doing and not doing many of the things we want to see from him now?
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
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Sep 29, 2025, 6:33 PM
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Are you asking if we think that he would go all out using the transfer portal and NIL?
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 7:24 PM
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Not specifically, but he already said in another interview if he ever went to a rebuild situation he would definitely use the portal.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 6:39 PM
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Name a potential program that Dabo would leave Clemson for.The only
way that would happen is if they fired him and gave him 60 mil and
then he would just join Saban on Gameday.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 7:22 PM
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Note the word “IF” in the subject line and try again…
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
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Sep 29, 2025, 6:40 PM
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I feel like if he went to Florida as an example, he would focus more on football only, partly by force and partly to do a personal reset. SEC schedule would force his hand.
Most of us like Dabo as a person and coach, but ever since 2020 he's kind of put himself in his own self constructed prison regarding clemsons roster and coaches, it feels like we are in a strange place where Dabo is using alot of platitudes "best is yet to come" ( 20's era) but in practice being very old fashioned and not changing, when fans point out the obvious, he lashes out and brings up the past.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
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Sep 29, 2025, 7:38 PM
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I think probably the worst thing Clemson could do is get rid of Dabo..at least right now. I think it would be more likely to fuel a fall into obscurity kinda like Auburn. They dumped the coach they won the national championship with after he struggled and it went downhill from there. The shine has definitely fallen off their program and they don't seem to be able to get it back. Each coach springs with new hope, but nothing...who knows maybe Hugh Freeze can get it done, but I doubt it.
Better the devil you know many times than the devil you don't.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 7:41 PM
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People seem to be missing the point of my question so I will ask it differently.
IF Dabo got a fresh start at another program do you think he would do anything different than he is now?
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 8:17 PM
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Yes , he would disregard " culture ".
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 9:22 PM
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I can't see it. It's very hard for people to change the way they do things. I don't think he is incapable. Far from it. If he can build little old Clemson into a team that not only challenged but whipped a lot of the blue bloods for an 8 year span he can do it anywhere. Especially if he managed to get the right situation who saw what he could do before the money started flowing. I still think he'd want to do it his way, because thats what makes Dabo Dabo. If he set his mind to it from the start, like you say, could he do it? yes. Would I put money on it to happen? No.
I hope we never have to find out. I hope as I assume most everyone does that he doesnt completely change who he is but adapts more toward the current landscape. You can't promise players undying loyalty now unless you have it in writing that they do the same. You have to tell them you'll do everything you can to help them succeed but if the results aren't there in a certain timeframe the team has to move on.
/steps off soapbox
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 30, 2025, 2:54 AM
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Coach Swinney has been quoted as saying if
he were to go to another school he would
comply with that schools wishes as for as
utilizing the portal and NIL.
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No, I think he would basically do things exactly the same way.***
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Sep 29, 2025, 9:03 PM
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 9:11 PM
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And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't scrape up his ### so much.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 9:20 PM
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Dabo would succeed in low expectation positions, bowl games are successful seasons and we want you here for a long time because we just don’t care that much.
A sun belt, CUSA, or AAC team, or maybe a bottom dweller acc or big 12.
Dabo is not going to go anywhere above Clemson, and I think it’s unlikely he gets fired or if he even retires in the next 5-10 years. He’s going to leave when he wants to go and retire. Everyone with any power at the university is on his side and it will take several years of not making bowl games or barely making bowl games for him to be run out. Anyone who thinks he’s getting terminated before he says so is delusional.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 10:44 PM
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I am one of the majority that doesn't want Dabo to leave. But I'll entertain the question.
If Dabo left for say, Florida, which has been talk for the past few weeks now. His methods wouldn't keep him around for more than 4 years and that's for various reasons.
1) Florida is a program that expects to be in the conversation to win the SEC championship regularly.
2) Florida fanbase isn't as forgiving as Clemson's
3) The AD wouldn't have a standing relationship with Dabo as Neff or Radokovich did.
It isn't just Florida, you put Dabo at almost any P4 Blueblood or semi-blueblood program, they will want results within 4 years and that's while using the portal and not having friends and family hire (which in such short time Dabo can't do). Dabo's voice doesn't carry as heavy in other programs as it does here. That's why he has grace here to get it fixed whether it is right or wrong. That's just a simple fact as a patriarch, figure head, whatever you want to call it, of a University in itself. Once you're somewhere long enough and gained the honor, you've earned respect and given time to get it righted ship.
But if Dabo adapted to modern football, maybe he could turn the ship around at almost any program but that's an unknown in itself as there is so many different variables at every school. Clemson ultimately caught lightning in a bottle with Dabo and that's something that cant be replicated.
My respect and honor for Dabo as a person is lifetime and I'm not a religious man myself but his words carry weight when presented with honor, sorrow, and truthfulness, his words hit the soul. Whether he gets it fixed for Clemson or not in the future is to be seen but Dabo isn't Clemson ultimately. If we end up staying a middle tier program, that won't enough. But we haven't been middle tier since the Bowden years and this year alone and that's also fact. I have my gripes, I've hounded them for weeks. So many posters know where I stand here.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 29, 2025, 11:06 PM
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Absolutely. I think he would use it as his excuse to purge the underperforming family and friends.
And he's already stated if he was starting from scratch he'd use the transfer portal.
I'll say it till I'm blue in the face, I think he ends his career at Auburn. (to be clear I hope thats a decade+ from now after he's won a couple more titles here)
Bama snobs think they're too good for him. He goes home with a big chip on the shoulder and he still knows that territory pretty well. Still has good relationships with the HS coaches down there. I'm guessing being one of the few people to make 9 figures in cash over his career from the state of bama he's probably rubbed shoulders with the boosters out there. And truth be told Dabo is a wonderful man by all accounts. Just slow on this new soulless trend of pay for play and transfers. But that doesn't give him an excuse not to adapt here.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 30, 2025, 12:31 AM
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No big programs will hire him if he plans to stick to this style.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 30, 2025, 12:44 AM
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I’d expect Dabo would drop down to FCS which more closely matches his ideals. And he’d absolutely kill it. But let’s allow him to adjust here first. Because he has also killed it right here.
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The way Dabo wants to run this program would likely work better
Sep 30, 2025, 4:15 AM
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at the D2 level. Colorado School of Mines would be the place to go.
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Re: Does anyone else feel that if Dabo went to another program
Sep 30, 2025, 9:13 AM
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He would be a great fit at Coastal Carolina
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