Re: TNET: Best Is The Standard: Swinney, some fans have differing opinions on what slogan means

Stupid article. No one thinks "Best is the Standard" means you never lose. There's never been a team that was invincible. But it does mean that you're putting yourself in the best position to succeed and to be the best team. Yeah, it does involve comparing yourselves to others. Guess what? Clemson is playing other teams every week. It's a sport. A sport by definition is a comparison to others. I guarantee you Dabo and his lawyers compared Dabo's salary to other coaches when negotiating his extension.

But I don't care how you define the term, the past few years do not meet it. If it's being "the best you can be," that does not mean:

-hiring your friends to positions for which they do not have experience and are not qualified

-surrounding yourself by yes men who will not question your decisions.

-putting your children and their friends on the team, taking up scholarship spots, especially when your children are objectively the worst athletes on the team

-playing players because of some weird sense of loyalty, rather than a meritocracy and giving the position to the best player

-refusing to adapt to a changing landscape, be it the portal or NIL, even while we fall while others pull ahead

-attacking those fans who demand better from the second highest-paid coach in America.

You 98.5%ers are only showing not only that you're a part of his creepy little cult, but that you are content for mediocrity. I've seen a number of you say Dabo has lifelong tenure now, no matter what happens. That tells me all I need to know about you and your personal/professional life. Winners do not have that kind of attitude.

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Oct 18, 2023, 4:47 PM

If BEST is the Standard, and by his definition it's about being and doing the best that you personally can do and be, and I do believe that is what Dabo meant when he come up with that slogan. I would like to ask Dabo just one question, did you do the best that you could have done when you hired the coaches that we have coaching high caliber kids coming into the program expecting to have some the best coaches in the country that could be brought to Clemson and work beside him to coach those kids up to be the best that they can be. If his answer is yes, I would say BS because he hired inexperience coaches within and didn't do a national coaching search to try and bring in the most experience coaches that he could have hired to come to Clemson and be a part of Best is the Standard.

I personally believe that the answer is no he didn't do his BEST to meet the standard of the coaches that was hired to be a HC's, nor did he hire position coaches that would meet the standard of the ones that followed those coaches to their new HC ing Jobs. It would be hard for some of the position coaches that he hired to get a job at some of the better high school programs around the country!!! So to me, Best is the Standard is just empty words that Dabo come up with and throwed out there to give the media folks something else to talk about that is now laughable...

Would I like to see another HC to come and replace Dabo, heck no bc I believe that Dabo can fix some of the biggest issues that is hurting the program right now at this time. BUT, if he allows he pride to interfere with him making the changes that could get our program back to competing for ACC, and National Championships, then I would say yes that there needs to be a change at the HC ing position. But I believe that he has seen enough of what's happening and he will make some needed moves for fix the problems that's hurting this team right now. In Dabo I still believe in, and I'm still at this time All In, Go Tigers!!!!

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TNET: Best Is The Standard: Swinney, some fans have differing opinions on what slogan means