Re: Is anyone a little stuck on Dabo’s almost belligerent insis-

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I can definitely see that, but I'm not "stuck" on it.

Jan 14, 2023, 10:25 AM

Look, Dabo's failure to acknowledge and address the obvious, significant problems with our offense was not only frustrating, but downright insulting. His defensiveness and deflection in that regard was maddening at times. However, that's just how he operates; he's not going to even start down a road that leads nowhere but having to call individuals out and throw coaches and players under the bus. He nips all of that in the bud. I just kept telling myself that the coach whose vision and leadership literally built Clemson into one of the top 2 football programs in the country over the last decade, could not possibly be that blind and would eventually change what needed to be changed when the time was right ... and he did. Every assistand he's had at Clemson has been part of his Clemson "family", and he takes that seriously, and he's fired them before, so I knew he would again if need be.

So, I don't expect Dabo to respond to reporters with "Yeah, coach Streeter sucked the last few games, and if he doesn't get it together, he's gonna be gone", or "DJ has not lived up to the hype, and we've got some capable guys breathing down his neck if he doesn't perform". He's not even going to respond with anything that even hints at that. Instead, he's gonna defend them, and keep any thoughts of major changes quiet until they happen. Right or wrong, that's the way Dabo operates, and I accept it and now that he has made big, needed changes, I'm not gonna get stuck on it.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken

It appears that you've never led a team or an organization. If you had, you'd know that in the midst of "the fray," or season, the last thing you want to do is create a distraction. Even hinting at dissatisfaction with his Staff would have been just that. The media, and all of Tigernet, would have been incessant in attempts to discover exactly where his dissatisfaction lay and what he intended to do about it. That would have infected both the team and the prospective recruits, both of which are vital to Dabo's success. So he did what every good leader does; he played it close to the vest until it was time to make a change. His making the necessary change should alleviate any concerns that fans seem to have as to whether he still considers Clemson a premier program, or intends for it to be. That's why I object so to the constant criticism of both coaches and players. Nobody involved with Tigernet, including the publishers, has anywhere near the knowledge Dabo has about the program, the Staff and the players. So our choice is to trust him or not. If you don't, you're going to be very frustrated for a long time. That's because Dabo is going to be at Clemson as long as he wants to be. His contract is a matter of public record. The way its written declares boldly that the University never intends to fire him. I, for one, trust him completely. And I believe he's right when he says, "The Best Is Yet To Come!" Go Tigers!

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