Re: TNET: Where do we go from here? To Blacksburg, of course

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I think for me, it is the disturbing trend that has developed.

Nov 5, 2024, 9:52 AM

It seems as though Dabo, nor the Clemson coaching staff are being proactive in stopping these events from occurring. It seems that coaches are only willing to do anything until after a bad loss or debacle. It is almost like the coaching staff does not know what is going on with each other or the players, or are experimenting.

It just gets on my nerves that it takes a "bad" loss for anything to change instead of coaches sticking to a process of perpetual self scouting and trying to be proactive on issues before they become a severe problem. I mean many of our problems are common freaking sense issues, like go out and get the best coach for the job and do not promote folks that have no business coaching yet.

It would have been one thing if Clemson had shown up and played competitively with Louisville, but Louisville beat Clemson decisively and Clemson seemed to roll over and let it happen.....IDK but when a coach comes out and says, the team was not prepared, that lays at the foot of all the coaches more than the players.

I also find it disturbing that these types of losses are happening more frequently than they have in the past. Dabo coached Clemson teams may have performed poorly in the past, (Pitt in 2016, Syracuse in 2017) but they always played with solid effort and that is something I don't see now, especially on defense. Clemson's D, used to play with high intensity and an edge to them, they don't any more and we have become soft. I would say the same for our offense, but really Clemson has never had a killer instinct on Offense, save having it in one or two key players on that side of the ball.

All I know is the team has been broken in one way or another for a few years now, and I do not have faith Dabo can fix all of the problems.

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....I don't put my full faith and trust in a guy that had a hand in creating most of the problems he faces and only changes at a snails pace, in a purely reactionary fashion, instead of being proactive.

This is off of what I have seen within the last 4 years or so. He has promoted people into positions they had no business being in, and when they are not performing well, he keeps them there too long.

Look at how he built the program back when he first got Clemson Rolling. He brought in experienced coordinators, Morris (OC at Tulsa for a few years prior), Steele (huge amount of experience and co-DC at Alabama), Venables (Okla. DC forever), Brooks (a journeyman DL coach with several programs), Caldwell (a journeyman OL coach with several programs), Hobby (DL coach and DC, that coached in the NFL and other college programs), Reed (coached several years at NCST).

Now instead of going out and getting the best available, he is promoting from within and rewarding guys that are loyal to him and believe in his process but have very little to no position or coordinating experience whatsoever. Goodwin, Grisham, Austin, Spiller, Conn, Richardson are all examples of this.

TNET: Where do we go from here? To Blacksburg, of course