The Clemson Tigers got off on the wrong foot this past weekend. Clemson fell to top-ranked Georgia in a game they were out-talented and overmatched at times. It’s been a few disappointing years now in Clemson. It feels unbelievable to think they were on the heels of a National Championship five years ago and about to appear in another. However, since losing to LSU, the Clemson program has thinned out. They no longer look like the heavyweight they did from 2014 to 2019. When that happens, the head coach will get criticized, and Dabo Swinney heard it a lot this weekend.
Swinney felt the heat online after Clemson’s defeat to Georgia. Then, on Tuesday, ESPN’s Paul Finebaum railed against the Tigers head coach. Finebaum blasted Dabo specifically over his strategy with the transfer portal, commenting on the struggles on Get Up on ESPN.
“It’s a complete and total failure Greeny,” Finebaum said of Swinney’s strategy via On3. “And I don’t know how you can find it any other way. When you look up and down college football and at the top teams, many of whom have quarterbacks who have transferred in.
“In fact, Georgia doesn’t, but Texas does, Oregon does, so many other schools do,” he said. “And for Dabo just to completely say, ‘I’m going to do it my way.’ That’s fine. But this is 2024; everything has changed, and you’re living in another world, an antediluvian philosophy, and it’s costing him.”
Finebaum went on to say that he wasn’t suggesting that Swinney be fired or that the days of Clemson’s run are over. However, he says that this strategy clearly isn’t working and the results suggest precisely that.
[On3]
