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Here is a total of 10 win seasons in between Danny Ford's
Sep 28, 2023, 11:09 AM
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firing, and Dabo Swinney being named permanent Head Coach at Clemson in 2009, a period of 20 years.
1990 - Ken Hatfield, 10-2, in his first year, with Danny's last team pretty much intact.
That is IT, only one year where we won 10 games. It was all downhill, WAY downhill, from there.
Our current Head Coach, who some of you Single Helix Mutoids want to run off now, has a streak of TWELVE STRAIGHT YEARS of winning 10 or more games in a season.
For that 20 year period 1990-2008, our average wins per year was 6.95. We finished a season as a ranked team only seven times during that stretch, with the highest again being Ken Hatfield's first year, 1990, at #9. We were #18 in 1991, #23 in Hatfield's last year of 1993, and then we would not return to the season end rankings until 2000, under Tommy Bowden, at #16. That was his high water mark, as we were ranked a total of five times during his 10 year tenure, with the next highest ranking being #21, twice.
In 14 full seasons under Dabo Swinney, we have missed the season ending rankings only once, in 2010. We have won the ACC 8 times in those same 14 years, after only winning it ONCE in the preceeding 20 years, and that was back in 1991 in Ken Hatfield's 2nd year. We have won 2 National Championships, and made it to the final game two other times, made the Playoffs six straight times.
I, for one, do not want Clemson to go back to wandering in the Wilderness of Mediocrity for another 20 years. And, to those who say "that wouldn't happen now, we have a better foundation", I say bull butter. Danny Ford had laid a good foundation too, good enough that Ken Hatfield took the Clemson job before ever setting foot on campus. It didn't take long for him to erode that foundation, but it sure took awhile to rebuild it after he and two more coaches that followed him could not get us back to anything approaching those levels of success.
So, continue to act like complete nincompoops on these message boards. Continue to beyotch and moan, and declare that you know how to fix our football program better than those who are paid to do it. You may get your wish, but it won't be what you thought you were getting, I would wager that much. I, for one, am eternally grateful for all the Dabo Swinney has accomplished at Clemson. He has earned my trust, even if his decisions sometimes puzzle me. Because, I have seen what the opposite looks like, and I MUCH prefer what we have now.
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