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Dabo you can't write a script like this

I think it's more about him living with his divorced mom in motels and such for a lengthy period of time after his father's addictions caused a lot of friction. Could be wrong.
You're 100% correct. However, we were middle of the pack before he arrived so it's not like we have this elite history. He played a huge part in getting Clemson to where they are now.
 
Do I feel "bad" for him with 4/5 star recruits, a bottomless supply of money and facilities and an industrial pipeline to the NFL? No. But he's had his own challenges, and he's brought Clemson to the top. He respects the history of the game (including SU greats) and he won me over with that stop in our locker room after the game last year. Hats off to him ...
 
Do I feel "bad" for him with 4/5 star recruits, a bottomless supply of money and facilities and an industrial pipeline to the NFL? No. But he's had his own challenges, and he's brought Clemson to the top. He respects the history of the game (including SU greats) and he won me over with that stop in our locker room after the game last year. Hats off to him ...

Funding is what it is but he did the work to get that roster to where it is today. Clemson wasn't always a 4/5 star heavy roster.
 
Love Dabo. He's the man and a class individual. And like people said, it's about him and what he did to get where he is and did it HIS way. They have the 4 star and 5 star kids because of him, Bigger donors for all the facilities because of him. Clemson was never what they are until Dabo. If it was so easy there why were coaches unable to do it before him? all the bluebloods are bluebloods because they have HUGE success in their history, not sure Clemson did.
 
You're 100% correct. However, we were middle of the pack before he arrived so it's not like we have this elite history. He played a huge part in getting Clemson to where they are now.

When he was hired I thought for sure Clemson was paying players to go there after they were around 500 the year before and Dabo was getting the 4 and 5 star players...the top players at their position... and it didn't make sense to me. The more I learned about Dabo the more I understood why he was getting players to go to Clemson.
 
Funding is what it is but he did the work to get that roster to where it is today. Clemson wasn't always a 4/5 star heavy roster.
Not even close. That’s why I think we can do it here. The only issue I see is lineman o and d.
 
Funding is what it is but he did the work to get that roster to where it is today. Clemson wasn't always a 4/5 star heavy roster.
I looked back a decade or so. Clemson's recruiting rankings were top 15 in the 3-4 years before he took over as HC in 2009. It's only one ranking, but the numerical sports site has Clemson's classes ranked 15th (2005), 14th (2006) and 16th (2007), 9th as IHC (2008) and as HC (2009) 36th. Post Sweeney-HC they remain in the same range (top 20 with an occasional outlier). No lack of talent:

2010 - 27th
2011 - 10th
2012 - 20th
2013 - 15th
2014 - 16th
2015 - 9th
2016 - 11th
2017 - 16th
2018 - 7th
 
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I looked back a decade or so. Clemson's recruiting rankings were top 15 in the 3-4 years before he took over as HC in 2009. It's only one ranking, but the numerical sports site has Clemson's classes ranked 15th (2005), 14th (2006) and 16th (2007), 9th as IHC (2008) and as HC (2009) 36th. Even after that they seem to be in the same range (top 20 with an occasional outlier):

2010 - 27th
2011 - 10th
2012 - 20th
2013 - 15th
2014 - 16th
2015 - 9th
2016 - 11th
2017 - 16th
2018 - 7th

The guy is making it happen with these horrible recruiting classes? :rolleyes:

HOLLYWOOD - YOU CAN'T WRITE A SCRIPT LIKE THAT!!!! ;)
 
Spending half my time in Greenville every year has me REALLY admiring Dabo and his program. What he’s built, and the foundation it’s built upon, is everything good about CFB. He’s genuinely a good man with faith and integrity, and that filters throughout the entire program.

That being said. No more “ROY bus” and “little old Clemson” talk... I don’t want to hear it anymore.
 
I looked back a decade or so. Clemson's recruiting rankings were top 15 in the 3-4 years before he took over as HC in 2009. It's only one ranking, but the numerical sports site has Clemson's classes ranked 15th (2005), 14th (2006) and 16th (2007), 9th as IHC (2008) and as HC (2009) 36th. Post Sweeney-HC they remain in the same range (top 20 with an occasional outlier). No lack of talent:

2010 - 27th
2011 - 10th
2012 - 20th
2013 - 15th
2014 - 16th
2015 - 9th
2016 - 11th
2017 - 16th
2018 - 7th

He took them from a top 20ish recruiting program to top 10/5 depending on what site you look at. That's a pretty big leap. You're talking the difference between 5-6 4 stars and getting 2-4 5 stars every class.

His 2018 class had SIX 5 stars. Tommy Bowden wasn't doing that back in 2007/2008.
 
He took them from a top 20ish recruiting program to top 10/5 depending on what site you look at. That's a pretty big leap. You're talking the difference between 5-6 4 stars and getting 2-4 5 stars every class.

His 2018 class had SIX 5 stars. Tommy Bowden wasn't doing that back in 2007/2008.

NOBODY is saying Dabo isn’t doing a great job, or isn’t a great recruiter.

It’s just that the cupboard was far from bare when he got there.

Tommy Bowden didn’t GERG the Clemson program prior to Dabo’s arrival.
 
I looked back a decade or so. Clemson's recruiting rankings were top 15 in the 3-4 years before he took over as HC in 2009. It's only one ranking, but the numerical sports site has Clemson's classes ranked 15th (2005), 14th (2006) and 16th (2007), 9th as IHC (2008) and as HC (2009) 36th. Post Sweeney-HC they remain in the same range (top 20 with an occasional outlier). No lack of talent:

2010 - 27th
2011 - 10th
2012 - 20th
2013 - 15th
2014 - 16th
2015 - 9th
2016 - 11th
2017 - 16th
2018 - 7th
Those numbers don't compare to Alabama, Georgia, OSU, FSU, and others. He's done a great job.
 
NOBODY is saying Dabo isn’t doing a great job, or isn’t a great recruiter.

It’s just that the cupboard was far from bare when he got there.

Tommy Bowden didn’t GERG the Clemson program prior to Dabo’s arrival.

Noone said that Dabo inherited a cratered program. He inherited a 7/8 win underachieving program that was a top 25 recruiting program, mainly because Bowden was a good recruiter. But even at that, it wasn't a roster full of 4/5 star recruits. Clemson is doing that now, but they were not doing that then.
 
You're 100% correct. However, we were middle of the pack before he arrived so it's not like we have this elite history. He played a huge part in getting Clemson to where they are now.
It is both. It is his story and Clemson's. Clemson used to be so powerless in SC government terms that it had to play SoCar in Columbia. SC state government treated Clemson as the tolerated step child. Clemson is tiny by Big Ten standards, and it is in a very small town. It is located in the northwest corner of the state, a long way from the capital. It pissed off most of the SoCar people in state government when it refused to leave the ACC with SoCar

Clemson becoming this good in football - top 4 in the nation for 4 consecutive years, with 2 National Championships over the team that many rank the best dynasty in CFB history - is a Cinderella story for the ages.
 

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