Re: Goodwin seems to be growing into his role as DC.

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The fact that it worked out with Dabo has nothing to do

Oct 2, 2023, 11:02 AM [ in reply to Re: Goodwin seems to be growing into his role as DC. ]

with Goodwin.

But if you want to make some sort of connection there, it would be to recognize that the odds of Dabo being successful at Clemson based on his resume were very poor, and the odds of another football coach at Clemson beating those odds again are even worse. You've heard the saying about lightning striking the same place twice, right?

While Venables is certainly a brilliant defensive coordinator, there are certainly at least a handful of other very good defensive coordinators out there at the college and professional level. Since we like to brag about being a top two program over a span of years in the playoff era, plus we have set records for coordinator contracts at Clemson, there is no excuse for Dabo not going after one or two of them.

There were literally no barriers to us getting whomever we wanted. Elite defensive talent was in place, elite facilities, model program, and the budget to pay a top salary.

Despite that, Dabo didn't interview any of these candidates. He didn't even consider anyone other than Goodwin and Conn. He said so himself. That is horrible.

I don't think anyone doubts that Goodwin has a lot of knowledge about defenses, but he doesn't have a monopoly on that. Plus, he had zero experience as a DC, and very little football coaching experience at all. You can't convince me that his football smarts are that incredible that they exceed the top defensive coaches in America.

Even if he is that much smarter than everyone else, promoting him to learn on the job is asinine. Again, we've been an elite program recently. Why go the route of having someone like Goodwin learn on the job when there are more qualified candidates we could've gotten who don't have to learn on the job?

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Please list out the DCs doing better and then you can provide details why that might be.

Fact is, you know nothing about football. Virtually nil.

You’re a fraud and troll with the sole purpose of desperately trying to drag down Clemson’s most successful program (by far) down to the middling and lower level of what pissant Brad has done.

Why did we hire a mid level no high level experience loser anyway? He didn’t have a good enough record nor the experience for our basketball program, and that’s why we’ve been wandering in the wilderness for 13 years!

Why is the losingest coach in Clemson basketball history still coaching anything at our school? He hasn’t gotten ANY better with this golden opportunity. So glad this is his last season, so we can FINALLY step forward in our floundering basketball program.

In his 2nd year, Wes currently has us as the 9th best defense in America. What do you mean by inexperienced?

You’re Judge Keller® a complete fraud.

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Well done, troll. Completely full of crap as usual, but good effort. Why did you unban yourself though? You violate site rules with nearly every post. You’re a joke and polluting this site.

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Goodwin seems to be growing into his role as DC.