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Message: [QUOTE="SU94, post: 3559262, member: 202"] I am not going to go on the record as to how many years Dino has left or what our record must be in 2021, but I will say this (and I am firmly a Dino supporter): Dino should focus on himself and work with his communications team on doing a MUCH better job communicating with his team and fanbase via the media. It's very very important that during times of adversity, leaders lead. Leaders communicate. Leaders portray confidence, vision and planning. This is from June 11 (bold is [B]BAD![/B]): "We've never gone through anything like this before," Babers responded. "I think back to [B]Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood. This is going to be an adjust and improvise type of situation. I literally don't know what's going to happen two weeks from now. [/B]I [B]can't[/B] look into the future and say, 'if we do this and this, we're going to be like this'. There's no history. There's [B]no knowledge[/B] to pull from and now this is strictly a [B]gut situation[/B]. [B]We don't even have a long enough period to work on the basic fundamentals because we lost 12 practices in the spring, to make good, fair evaluations on people[/B]." My shoulders slumped when I read this. And I wonder what his players thought if they did. It is as if he was setting up the media for the impending losing season, as if he wanted to be able to tell them after the fact, "I told you back in June we'd win 1 of 2 games. I just could not say it." Fast forward a few months. I think we saw that someone got to Dino (likely ADJW) between Saturday afternoon (post Liberty) and Monday's presser. He improved on his messaging Monday. Put more thought into it. Wildhack needs to help coach Dino up here. There are communications professionals (beyond his SIDs) that are experts in this realm. He cannot simply walk in from the practice field and wing it. He has to give this some thought, because he's on the verge of losing the 'benefit of the doubt.' If he is going to ask his players to get bigger, faster, better between now and next season (which he should), Dino should work on his communicative tones, messages and timings. It would go a long way. Please Dino, for your own good, less movie references. Less Noah's Ark talk about Rhinos, Elephants. You are not Bill Belichick. There is no real harm is building up some rapport with the local media and fanbase. Show some color and insight. Worry less that an operative in Clemson's football office is listening or reading and realize that your own team and fanbase are. This all needs to be cleaned up. [/QUOTE]

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