Re: TNET: Swinney has no answer to why Klubnik kept the ball on final play

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The Answer is Spreading Hubris with Dabo's example "bad fans"

Oct 22, 2023, 9:45 AM

While there are tons of things that would have changed the outcome. That last play was a result of 2 things that have been festering with coaching and players for awhile now:

1. Hubris
- Starting with Dabo's refusal / delay to adapt to change vs "the Dabo process that worked for years".
- To heck with play call history, lets run it up the middle from shotgun again because it HAS to / will work this time. (the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over but expecting a different outcome)
- Star recruits being told way too often they are so good that they (alone) wear the super hero cape and take it too far.

2. Setting Bad Examples with Disrespect by theee leader
- Now more than ever, every CEO knows (should know) not to attack (disrespect) their own customers, in this case fans. You never win arguments with your customers without it costing you somewhere down the road.

While we all agree that there are bad "customers" / fans with bad ideas, Dabo attacked a group he doesn't control. Worse, he got more emotional by self-destructively suggesting he (along with fans, the team, other coaches) should lose some games to weed out those that don't fully agree (bandwagon or the 1.5%) despite the fact they still cheer for Clemson, regardless of gripes.

- Players are following Dabo's disrespect and getting overly emotional / self- and team-destructive but now its aimed at the coaches, other players and perhaps the fans. We have now seen from at least 2 "superstar" players this season and have heard it straight from their mouths (e.g. eff the coaches' play calls, go rogue / keep the ball (botched handoffs)).

Dabo: learn from these painful lessons and focus on what you can control now (the team and coaches).
Don't delay change until after a "Not best season", you don't need more "evidence of poor decisions or actions" or to continuously repeat things that aren't working. And only complain about fans to your wife and close friends, not in public.

Change / adapt and discipline now - set a good example!

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ROGUE FOR A REASON: Obviously Cade is no Trevor, and never will be, but instead of blaming him for ignoring that last play call, take a look at the play call and acknowledge that Cade thought we would have a better chance if he did an end-run. He may have been right, but he couldn’t pull it off.

MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY: As for Dabo, the man who led us to two national championships, he is no different from most other people who suddenly have wealth and power: They want to be surrounded by people who agree with them, defer to them. It’s human nature as old as humans. So, no gripin’, y’all.

NO LONGER ELITE: With the exceptions of Peter Woods on defense and Tyler Brown on offense, we no longer land elite recruits. We recruit them, as Tigernet reports, but most of them choose to go elsewhere. The SEC and Big 10 send way more players to the NFL than the ACC does. And now, the unregulated NIL collectives are promising to make college players rich if they will attend a certain school. And since a tiny percentage of college players will ever see an NFL paycheck, many of them see the NIL payday as their only shot at some big bucks. For years, the coaches made all the money. The players want some of that, too. Again, human nature.

That being the case, we will never again be able to recruit our way to ACC and CFP championships, as we did before, thanks to Dabo, one of the all-time great recruiters. Going forward, we will have to use the Portal to plug players into key positions—like wide receiver, as FSU did with Keon Coleman.

ANOTHER WAY TO USE THE PORTAL: Do what Coach Prime did in Colorado— except do it with our coaches. Dabo to his coaching staff: “Y’all need to be usin’ the portal, ‘cause I need to replace you.”

PRAISE FOR DABO: The program he created was based not just on excellence, but also on values. He wanted these kids to become young men who lived the Golden Rule. Sadly, that era is over. But as disappointed as we are now, I still think Dabo Swinney deserves a statue on our campus.

TNET: Swinney has no answer to why Klubnik kept the ball on final play