Is Dabo Swinney’s stubbornness costing him and Clemson? | College Football Enquirer

Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss Dabo Swinney and Clemson’s place in the college football hierarchy. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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This was a referendum game.

Clemson is one of four schools that refuses to take a transfer last year.

The other three Army Navy Air Force, Georgia, they’ll take transfers, they’ll take anything they can.

They had three touchdown receptions by transfers.

This was a referendum game on what William Christopher Sweeney is doing.

Ideally, his system would work great and it would be terrific.

I appreciate it.

Final score 34 to 3.

Pat.

What is happening?

Oh, it was, uh, this was a repudiation, a train wreck, uh, like Dabo, you know, has carved a successful career out of stubbornly believing in himself and in the way he does things and it’s worked spectacularly.

He’s won two national championships.

He’s been to the playoff a million times.

He’s won the AC C A million times, but he’s outdated.

I’m not saying it’s over, but it’s trending heavily towards over for him as an elite coach.

This was a complete beat down by somebody who is at the top of the game.

There’s only three active coaches have won national championships and one of them was Matt Brown in 2005.

The other two are Dabo who’s won two.

And Kirby Smart who has won two and when Nick Saban out of the mix, guess who is the undisputed king of college football?

It’s Kirby Smart.

Sure isn’t Dabo Sweeney.

Um This was uh a very, very bad loss for them.

Georgia is excellent.

Let’s get that out of the way.

I was saying, Ohio State probably number one, Georgia number two after seeing him play, I’m saying Georgia number…

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