Re: Dabo has got all these people right where he wants them. The disrespect for

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Jul 22, 2024, 8:31 PM

Zee I think that what pizzes all those talking heads off the most, and it's that Dabo refuses to allow those on the outside of Clemson try to tell him what and how he should be doing to be competitive. But Dabo knows that they are completely wrong bc he has proven since his first day on the job as Clemson's head football coach that he can win at the highest level by developing HS recruits the same way that he did when he beat what was said to the best Bama team in their history.

I feel that if Dabo actually saw a situation where he couldn't win without using the transfer portal, he would be digging them up out of the portal the same as some coaches are doing to try and build what they believe could be a winning team, but Dabo has proven many time that he can build a winning team the same way he has done it in the past by recruiting the best HS talent he can recruit, and by doing that way he sees that he can still win at the highest level without yet having to out what limited funds that Clemson has on players out of the portal when he is getting an equal value from HS recruiting bc everybody knows that most of the best portal guys are in the portal chasing after as much money as they can possibly get.

If most of the portal talent was so talented that championship teams could be built by anybody that uses the portal, picking the best 12 teams for the playoffs would be all but impossible for the playoff committee to pick the 12 best playoff teams, and those teams would come from the schools that had more NIL money than the ones that wasn't chosen for the playoffs...

That facts are that the best players that are in the portal are the ones that actually went in the portal to be paid as much money possible, but the majority of the portal guys are players that wasn't seeing the field as much as they thought they should be playing and that was bc they were behind guys that were noticeable better than that guy that dove into the portal only to get more playing time and every team in college FB already has those types of players on their team that don't have to pay, and their 2nd string players that are getting NIL money, they are only getting the bare minimum. The transfer portal is overloaded with players for a reason, and those reasons are most of them weren't good enough to be paid or good enough to be one of those 1st or 2nd string guys that are becoming worthy of NIL money.

With Clemson's limited resources for NIL money, why would Dabo want use Clemson's limited NIL money to bring in one or two of the better portals guy looking for more NIL money when he is bringing in guys like those right out of HS and coaching them up and paying them little or nothing. The very best portal will be getting big NIL money from the schools that have unlimited NIL money, and Clemson just can't provide that kind of money for a portal player. I agree the portal could provide advantages for schools with the resources to bring a lot of NIL money, or they have a lot of wealthy boosters giving to a school's NIL fund. But Dabo has his way to bring some top players to Clemson without a lot of wealthy boosters and without major resources to bring in a lot of NIL money, and if he can win at a high level by doing things his way, why should we care if's he's not using the portal when Clemson isn't one of those schools with unlimited NIL donors that it takes to purchase the very best portal talent. And if Dabo and Clemson can't afford to purchase the best portal talent, I'm OK with him not using at all when we can't afford the best portal talent when he's getting what Clemson needs from recruiting HS talent and paying them very little or nothing until they prove themselves after being developed...

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What I do think most people expect is a coach who is among the highest paid in the country, and a group of coordinators and assistants who are among the highest paid in the country, to have our team playing at an elite level. That means doing all they can within every legal channel to assemble the best and most talented group of players possible, coach them and develop them well, and have them win at the highest level while representing the program with class and excellence on and off the field.

If that isn’t the standard, then why are we paying the coaches so much? Why have we spent hundreds of millions of dollars on facilities? Why do we provide the coaches and players with the best of everything? If we are fine bragging about our high level success years ago, but only winning 9-10 games a year these days, then by all means let’s cut the football budget to one that better reflects the current product on the field.

For Dabo to continue to dig his heels in and act like a petulant child in his refusal to use the transfer portal and NIL in order to achieve the above, it is naturally going to rub people the wrong way, especially given what he is paid and especially since his way isn’t working.

The longer we continue to underachieve, the less cute his catch phrases become and the less mileage he will continue to get from his success last decade. Dabo has a long leash, but at some point people are going to expect him to earn his paycheck in this current era of college football.

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Dabo has got all these people right where he wants them. The disrespect for

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