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TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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May 14, 2024, 6:11 PM
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Tigernet ain't gonna like this 🤣
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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Coach, love what you do. You continue doing what you do, and I'm certain you'll be getting your (natty) trophy. You are human, you've made mistakes, which of us haven't, but you've learned and adapted. Bad decisions lead to wisdom which leads to good decisions. Okay on coach, and
Spot the #### ball!!!!!!!!
Go TIGERS!!!!
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Queue up
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the snarky cheap shot from JK in 3, 2, 1…..
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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All good and Wonderful! Just don't lose to Duke, FSU, Miami and NCState -that are using the portal to fill in and try to improve themselves.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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May 14, 2024, 7:07 PM
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How many times have beat us ???? Good grief
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all beat us last year
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May 14, 2024, 9:34 PM
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now that we are own our slide
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I am all in Dabo!
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Lets GO!
Haters gonna hate, let’s go be legendary and prove them wrong AGAIN!
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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May 14, 2024, 6:48 PM
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Sounds good. Now let's play the season.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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May 14, 2024, 6:53 PM
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Love Dabo
But I’m dizzy from all that spin.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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May 14, 2024, 7:07 PM
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Then sit down
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Sorry Dabs, you dont get a trophy for continually failing to use the portal.***
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Well at least he has some trophies unlike your boyfriend Bradley***
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Re: Sorry Dabs, you dont get a trophy for continually failing to use the portal.***
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May 14, 2024, 7:11 PM
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Nor for continually using the portal to fail
Different strokes
The portal isn't Relevant in Clemson and it doesn't have to be.
Go Tigers!!!
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Sorry, but Dabo hasnt come close to winning a national championship
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since the current transfer portal was instituted.
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Re: Sorry, but Dabo hasnt come close to winning a national championship
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May 14, 2024, 8:39 PM
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Nor has any other major sport coach at Clemson
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… and we’ve won 2 Nattys in the last 3 years, and 4 overall.
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Tell 'em shill I
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May 15, 2024, 6:54 AM
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Sorry Dabo is too successful for you LOL
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Re: Sorry, but Dabo hasnt come close to winning a national championship
May 15, 2024, 1:12 PM
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I’m typically in your corner… I think Brad is a good coach… with that said, technically Dabo has won one Championship since the portal was implemented on October 15, 2018.
Here is a fun fact:
25% of the teams who do not use the portal have won a championship
3% of the teams who do use the portal have won a championship
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Quitters never win and winners never quit...but now they do?
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Portal players are mostly, quitters. And sure, not ALL of them, but MOST. They are young men who have become dissatisfied with their current situation at their current school and looking for a new direction, a fresh start, something to rejuvenate their perspective and hope for success. But still, any way you look at it, they are still 'quitters.'
So, who wants a quitter? Honestly? Winners never quit and quitters never win...right?
Dabo knows what he's doing, and if you don't think he does... watch!
I couldn't be prouder to be a Tiger than I am right now, and Dabo Swinney is the reason! He believes in his players and his players believe in him.
So do I.
Thanks, Coach Swinney, for being a mentor and an example to all of your players of how to be a coach, a father, a husband, a brother, a friend, an uncle, a leader and a man.
We've got your back.
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Re: Quitters never win and winners never quit...but now they do?
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May 14, 2024, 7:43 PM
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That's well and good to bring in a portal guy if there is no other way to avoid it, and in a case like that, I say get him and give him a fair shot at playing said position!!!
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Re: Sorry Dabs, you dont get a trophy for continually failing to use the portal.***
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May 14, 2024, 7:41 PM
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Judge, Dabo hasn't failed by not using the portal, and he shouldn't have to say again that he likes who he has, and he was 100% correct when he said that if he brings in a portal guy, he could risk losing 2, maybe 3 other player that is trying to win that job, and if he had of brought in a portal guy, there is no guarantee the portal would be better than the 2-3 players he has trying to win that job out right.
How many times here on T-net do we say that competition will push somebody to work harder to win just one position. Bring in a portal center, and those guys that's working their butts off to win the job, if they leave when Dabo brings in a portal guy, who is left to push that guy to get better. If I understand what Dabo was saying, it must have been pretty easy to understand, and that means that most everybody else should understand what he was saying!!!!
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Re: Sorry Dabs, you dont get a trophy for continually failing to use the portal.***
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I'm choosing not to be a hypocrite and take an unnecessary shot at the basketball program just to get under someone's skin (Judge). I give Brownell a lot of credit for the success he has had in the portal, particularly over the last couple of years.
When you compare the two programs, it is apples and oranges. If BB could recruit out of high school like football does, there would not be the need for so many transfers. Brad is doing what he has to do, out of necessity, to try and put a competitive team on the floor. Dabo is in a completely different situation and his approach should be different. He can afford to be selective and not have to replace 25% of his team with transfers every year.
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Re: Sorry Dabs, you dont get a trophy for continually failing to use the portal.***
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I will say when it comes to the OL, he made some significant effort to try and bring some guys in. Like he said, they have to choose us too and it just didn't pan out this cycle. I'm glad to see we at least made the effort and hope we will selectively continue to do so, but with more success.
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Re: Sorry Dabs, you dont get a trophy for continually failing to use the portal.***
May 15, 2024, 7:13 AM
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As "Dabs" succinctly stated in his comments, who's he going to get? There is only 1 spot available. Who's he going to get? Why should we be content with someone else's cast offs? I realize that there are some good players in the mix, but among the ones who are good, how many stay with the second transfer? The third? His coaches have said they are good with who they have. Let "Dabs" recruit and do his thing. I trust him to know what he's doing more than you
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Re: Sorry Dabs, you dont get a trophy for continually failing to use the portal.***
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How about this? Why does Clemson seem to have an issue trying to find a spot to fit "cast offs" when every single other D1 program does not have these same problems? We cannot seriously delude ourselves that the Clemson program is so unique it has a complete inability to effectively and selectively use the transfer portal like every other d1 program
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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Dabo could bull #### his way out of an underground Hamas tunnel.
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And he knows people will be there to
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lap it up. We all love coach but talk about telling yourself what you want you want to hear.
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The sad thing is, I think he actually believes this crap.***
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Re: The sad thing is, I think he actually believes this crap.***
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like you believe every year is "the year" for Brownell? 14 years Judge.......14
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May 14, 2024, 10:06 PM
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… to take that opportunity? That’s what the portal does.
Just look at what is happening with our basketball team. We take 4 or 5 guys from the portal and then cry about our own players hitting the portal.
You can’t have it both ways.
I’m all in with Dabo… I totally understand where he’s coming from. And one you open the portal for wide, you won’t be able to shut it again.
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Love Dabo but reading his spin on this made me want to throw up.
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Just be honest and say you don’t like the dang thing. No need to put a folksy spin on it.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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May 14, 2024, 8:11 PM
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One thing’s for sure .. it will not be a participation trophy.
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we will see how this ages
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come august 31st say around 4 pm
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It will be a non-issue for the Dabo cult.
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If we lose to Georgia, they will say it’s because Georgia cheats, they have more NIL/conference money than we do, and say that we do things the right way so we can’t be expected to beat them.
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Re: It will be a non-issue for the Dabo cult.
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That sounds like the Brownell excuses to say he is a good coach.
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Re: It will be a non-issue for the Dabo cult.
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If Clemson loses to Georgia, would be like if BB lost to UConn. So, come on man. We aren't going to win or lose to Georgia (or any other team) based on the portal decisions. I love our roster the way it is.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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If anyone is naive enough to believe that if Dabo thought a Portal player would make the difference in making the Playoffs or not and he passed on trying to get that player, then there are professionals that that can help. Trust the man, trust the process and don't jump off the roof just because little Johnny did.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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August 31st at 4 pm has nothing to do with what Clemson football is! There’s what 131 other teams in D1 football and only 1 team can be the champion. The graduation rate, the lack of players jumping off the team, the rare player sitting out bowl games because they love their teammates. There is a certain kind of player Dabo seeks out, more often than not he gets his players. Look what all those portal players got FSU last year. Georgia may win, but Clemson is far and away the better more prestigious program. Do you really want what Kirby and his band of merry ######## has built down in Athens? What about the little ##### Norvell down in Tallahassee? Do you really want a culture of the highest bidder and I’m not playing unless I get paid? I’ll take Clemson football every day. It might get frustrating at times and you really can’t win them all, but Dabo is all class and has built the best football program in college football!
Go Tigers! Spot the #### ball!!
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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Amen, again!
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
May 14, 2024, 10:42 PM
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A participation trophy would be nice, but we don't participate. 😂😂
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And now all the people who whined about the basketball coach tooting his own
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horn have lost their moral high ground...took about a week
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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I’ll give Dabo this… he knows how to make it sound so good.
We’ll see if all these people saying they’re with him all the way are still saying that after week 1 or even next season when we lose 2/3 games we shouldn’t.
He can put that pretty spin on it all he wants and hey if all some of you care about is continuity and graduating players then that’s great but he doesn’t get paid to graduate players… he gets paid to win football games and whether me or anyone else agrees with it that’s what college football is now.
Nobody (other than our fans) gives a d@mn about how many players graduate. It’s about wins and losses and that’s the bottom line no matter how much Dabo or anyone else tries to spin it.
We will not seriously challenge for another national championship as long as Dabo is here. But hey… as long as we’re doing it the “right way” then who cares about wins and losses.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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And Dabo has more wins and more championships than any coach in Clemson history! Next!
Pay for play won’t happen under Dabo and I support it! It’s college not pro football. Morals, standards, principles and just doing the right thing regardless of what anyone else says, thinks or feels matters. I support Dabo!
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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We might deserve a trophy for truly keeping our amateur status. The whole NIL/transfer deal has so upended college football that most teams are far more "professional" than semi-pro teams of yesteryears ever were. I hope we do well this year, but irrespective of our record, we can be proud that Clemson did it right.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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Clemson had 12 outgoing transfers to one incoming last season. This year its 12 and zero, respectively. That by itself is not sustainable. Sure, they can fill the vacancies with high school recruits, but to what end? Every team in the country is recruiting high school prospects. Clemson won’t get every player they want and will have to settle for less talented players. Future teams will increasingly become less talented and younger if the Tigers don’t start using the transfer portal. With Clemson trying to leave the ACC to, assumedly, the SEC or Big Ten, that won’t be a recipe for success. Quality team depth and experience will matter.
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Wow. Trophies for lack of portal utilization.
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He’s definitely gotten soft over the last 5-6 years.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
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C'MON Coach....please stop with that goofy statement. I understand and believe Clemson should be given a trophy or some type of award for its outstanding graduation rate but one for not using the transfer portal...that is like saying getting a reward for not adapting to change. That sounds even worse than a participation trophy. As I have said before.....cut out all the talking and focus on August 31 at 12noon in the Georgia Dome...enough said. Let the play on the field speak for itself.
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This is dumb.
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HTH
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Oof, participation trophies***
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The most successful team using the portal
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May 15, 2024, 9:13 AM
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lost by 60 points in their bowl game. Chill. The portal isn't some cure-all like you guys think it is. JK wants to tout Brownell. The comparison with him and Dabo isn't a fair one though. Brownell relies on transfers to be competitive. Dabo goes out and recruits the guys to win. Simple as that.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
May 15, 2024, 10:41 AM
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Hope it works out, bucking the system is usually not the easiest path to success.
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Clemson Icon [24330]
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Dabo doesn't even earn a participation trophy for portal
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May 15, 2024, 1:40 PM
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You have to at least show up and try to earn those.
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Re: Dabo doesn't even earn a participation trophy for portal
May 16, 2024, 10:11 AM
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Hmm .. politicking for a “Non-Participation Trophy” ?
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney says his program might deserve a trophy for how it navigated transfer portal
May 20, 2024, 3:16 PM
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This is the fact that I appreciate. Dabo Swinney does not serve the fans of Clemson he serves the players. 98.5% of the players in college football will never make the pro's so eventually I think many players are going to get wise to the fact that they are being used and abused by other universities that are more concerned with paying a team than with their personal education and development.
It make take some time, but I really am seeing the vision of Dabo Swinney and am more for it all the time. Its like a team of horses. Some horses pull hard because they are being whipped. Other horses pull even harder because they love pulling and love who they are pulling for.
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