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Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
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Nov 1, 2025, 5:45 PM
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I don't get it. This downfall should be studied
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Ultimate Tiger [35934]
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Re: Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
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Nov 1, 2025, 5:46 PM
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Stop worrying. We're on the Paw Journey and are winners at life.
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Standout [225]
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Tennessee Volunteers are the defending Life Champions***
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Nov 1, 2025, 6:03 PM
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Game Changer [1617]
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Re: Tennessee Volunteers are the defending Life Champions***
Nov 1, 2025, 8:41 PM
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They’ve graduated to actually winning games.
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Ring of Honor [22965]
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Reluctance to use the portal and nepotism hires.
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Nov 1, 2025, 5:46 PM
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That’s what happened to the program.
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Valley Legend [12777]
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what should be studied is how many of our fans didn't see this coming??
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Nov 1, 2025, 5:47 PM
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we're "supposed" to be an educated football fanbase, yet only a few of us called this 5 years ago.
this didn't happen overnight.......we've been headed to this point fast.
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Ultimate Tiger [35934]
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Re: what should be studied is how many of our fans didn't see this coming??
Nov 1, 2025, 5:48 PM
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The warning signs appeared last year. And yeah, I saw them.
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Valley Legend [12777]
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they appeared in 2021...continued in 2022.....then in 2023....continued 2024
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Nov 1, 2025, 5:51 PM
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the ACC championships of 2022 & 2024 tricked Dabo and most of our fanbased into thinking that problems were non-existent.......the ACC insulated Dabo to the REAL issues.
his OOC p4 record vs mediocre+ teams since 2021 is atrocious
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Clemson Conqueror [11908]
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Re: Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
Nov 1, 2025, 5:51 PM
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Apparently, we really love the taste of rat poison…
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Valley Legend [12450]
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Re: Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
Nov 1, 2025, 5:53 PM
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Ohhh you’ve come to the right place!
Lots of people on here have all the answers LOL
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Orange Beast [6519]
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Well
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Nov 1, 2025, 5:56 PM
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1. We made our Coach feel like he was above reproach.
2. He got complacent and started hiring unqualified coaches and staff members and built a circle of “yes men”.
3. He failed to adjust to NIL and the portal. Instead of adapting, he took a stand against both in some sort of twisted sense of morality.
4. Here we are today, a staff full of “yes men” who don’t dare challenge their dear leader. They just hopped on the bus and smiled as Dabo drove it off a cliff.
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Paw Master [17143]
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Re: Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
Nov 1, 2025, 8:36 PM
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Add in that he's recruiting players with emphasis on graduation and Christianity. Both of those are great qualities but isn't the same standard of the schools who excel pretty much year in and year out. We have good men playing for us but perhaps not excellent players.
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Game Changer [2063]
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Re: Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
Nov 1, 2025, 8:37 PM
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We can't attract the same level of talent we used to get.
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Clemson Sports Icon [54061]
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Sure, its pretty simple.
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Nov 1, 2025, 8:40 PM
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1. Become overconfident.
2. Put too much stock in culture and too little in talent.
3. Hire/promote unqualified coaches.
4. Fail to embrace the single most important factor in recruiting (money, AKA NIL).
5. Fail to utilize a ready-made avenue to obtain talented players who have already proven themselves at the college level (transfer portal).
6. Use your bully pulpit to criticize fans, the media, and anyone else who disagrees with you.
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Asst Coach [859]
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Re: Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
Nov 1, 2025, 8:43 PM
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It’s easy. Dabo was great at selling great facilities and too recruits mama’s.
None of that matters when other school can just wave dollars in their face.
Dabo is not willing to do that, so we can’t compete in this environment.
That’s literally it. There is no mystery here.
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Associate AD [1045]
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Re: Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
Nov 1, 2025, 8:43 PM
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Two natties, best run in program history = most head coach autonomy in program history… bevy of bad coaching hires , hiring former players , family and friends without any questioning, lost sense of urgency … equals what you got today.
This was all unintentionally designed to happen.
Just has been 5 years in the making.
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CU Guru [1555]
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Were Daboing***
Nov 1, 2025, 8:48 PM
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Starter [270]
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Re: Can someone please tell me ### happened to our FB program?
Nov 1, 2025, 8:48 PM
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Bad evaluations,recruiting misses,development,coaching,nil, not using the transfers portal to replace transfers and not adjusting to change in college football by the head coach.
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