Re: I referenced it, you ignorant ###., Part Deux.

Because he is arrogant, selfish , hypocritical and will not conform to the new college football. His recruiting has dropped from top 10 every year to top 40 now. He acts like everyone in the sport of college football is wrong but him. He makes $11 million a year , but does not use the NIL to recruit, so basically he is saying that players don't deserve the money or get any money until they get on my team , then I will decide how much money they get.
Plus CLEMSON is the only team in college football not utilizing the transfer portal. Its complete Arrogance , hypocritical, and egotistical attitude that everyone is wrong but him..
I've been a Clemson fan since 1974 , I have seen alot of coaches and coaching changes, and his attitude and arrogance is the worse I've ever seen... It's very hard to be a Clemson fan now. He built it to almost a dynasty in 12 years and has just about destroyed it in less than 5 years, give it a few more years and watch . If it wasn't for our schedule this year and us lucking into the accc game, it would of been a 7-5 year. We cannot beat no one with a pulse. Our program has completely reverted back to 2009/2010/2011... and the arrogance to act like it's not happening is beyond me. It's not hard to look at the dudes we had from 2012 to 2020, and compare them to now!!

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Re: For all those that want Dabo gone

Dec 5, 2024, 9:41 AM

I'm happy to field this question.

First and foremost, I would rather us not have to fire Dabo. I like him as a person, and I do think it's good Clemson's players graduate at a high rate and have less legal troubles than many of our "peer programs" (debatable if they're still our peers). I also do appreciate what he did for the school. I've lost a lot of interest in college football since the transfer portal, but in the last time of true college athletics, Dabo took a middling ACC team and made us the premier program in the country for one shining moment. You cannot watch this video and not love what the man did for us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxU14tE9TxM

However, college football is no longer amateurism. These athletes are now professionals that are going to go to whatever program offers them the most money and the biggest chance of going to the NFL. What you see in the video is NEVER coming back (revenue sharing will not impact NIL deals at all, everyone needs to understand that, and the NCAA cannot regulate those deals under Kavanaugh's opinions). When Dabo renounced the portal and said we'd rely on recruiting the best players and then retaining them, I trusted him. But it really hasn't panned out. Since the end of the 2020 season, we are 2-7 against teams that finished ranked. We've lost by two touchdowns on average.

Our recruiting classes have fallen dramatically. Here are our class rankings since 2020: #3, #5, #10, #11, #15, #26. Our rating by recruit has gone from: #1, #3, #14, #15, #16, #19. It's been on a massive decline for 6 years straight. Meanwhile, many of our rivals (SC, FSU, Miami, ND) have been doing as well or better recruiting, while also supplementing their classes with the transfer portal. So we're basically not bringing in as good of players, we're losing many to the portal, and not adding in any, while the teams we have to compete with are all improving. I've also seen no indication that Dabo is willing or able to admit the method that let us reach the top of the mountain no longer works, and change his process. I like the fact that Dabo marches to the beat of his own drum. But if you're going to not do as the Romans do in Rome, then you need to make sure what you're doing works.

I also have many other concerns.

Dabo has been very different in personality lately than he was 10 years ago. He used to be a tremendously humble guy. Now he uses the threat of taking away press passes from people like David to keep them from asking hard questions. He bristles and attacks good Clemson fans who asked him hard questions, and then refused to take questions at all. Keep in mind these are fans who make less than 1% of what Dabo does, but use their hard-earned money to attend games and donate to the program/NIL fund. But his attitude seems to have changed, in my mind at least, from someone who was humble and happy to serve Clemson, to someone who now thinks Clemson fans and the university owe him for what he's done.

Obviously, there are also issues with game-time decisions. Dabo is not a hyper-intelligent coach like a Mike Leach, Sonny Dykes, or Andy Reid. Xs and Os are not his forte. So he needs to hire coaches to do that for him, and then trust them to do their job. I am friends with some of our biggest boosters who have intimate access to the team/locker room. They've said Venables was not afraid to challenge Dabo, which Dabo resented, and it appears Dabo has now surrounded himself with yes men who also aren't good at developing players or making game-time decisions. If you look at our staff, they are tremendously underqualified compared to other teams, and are almost all either (a) Dabo's former players, (b) Dabo's family, or (c) Dabo's friends. If you are his son or his former player who couldn't get the same level of job elsewhere, you're much less likely to challenge bad ideas of your boss. In my experience, echo chambers are extremely toxic to any organization. And yes, I do think Dabo keeps Riley under his thumb, and I do partially blame Riley for allowing him to do that. I think it's telling that in the last 5 years, the only position group to truly show improvement is Luke, and I think he's the one person who wouldn't kowtow to Dabo.

That's just a preview of some of my concerns. I would strongly, strongly prefer Dabo to just adjust to the times and take steps to rectify the situation. But at the same time, I've lost faith that he's willing or able to do that. We have to realize that we're behind the 8 ball here, and time is of the essence. Right now, there's still enough fan support that we're generating a massive amount of NIL funding. We are the top ACC team in average NIL earnings by quite a bit. But we have several factors weighing against us. The ACC is a terrible conference and the media deal is horrible. The SEC and Big Ten are going to continue increasing their power and influence while we fall behind. And every year we do not compete for a title, we lose relevance in elite players' minds. For a high school junior, they were in elementary school the last time we won a championship. Every year we're going to slip at the rate we're going, and that's going to decrease our fans' enthusiasm and NIL spending. There are plenty of people on this board who say they've already decided NIL donations on top of tickets is too much, and have stopped donating. Meanwhile, we have a coaching staff who is the second-highest paid in the country, and yet refuse to address the situation. I believe that for the amount we spend on Dabo, we could hire an elite coach who will take advantage of all the tools available to him. I'm not saying we should hire him by any means, but look at what Deion Sanders has done at Colorado of all places. Could you imagine what he could do with our talent pool and money?

I simply believe that while Dabo's coaching philosophy was one of the best in the era of amateurism, but it is bad in the era of professionalism. I would prefer he adapt to the times and succeed. But if we cannot do so because it goes against his principles, then we need to move on.

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Thanks for confirming that I am right.

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I referenced it, you ignorant ###.