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Dabo Swinney once said he’d quit if players got paid — where’s that resignation letter, coach?
People may change, but the internet lives forever. And in June of 2014, Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney said one of the dumbest and most hypocritical things in sports history. ...

Let's make some NFL free agency predictions
Someone in the NFL league office apparently doesn’t understand that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, because they decided to make that the day that free agency begins this year. Thinking about it a little more though, nothing goes together quite like Guinness and top-tier talent changing teams and cau...


Dabo did it again: A timeline of the dumbest things the Clemson dunce has done
Foot meet mouth. Dabo meet karma....

If Dabo Swinney’s players were safer with him, why did NFL prospect Justin Foster, 22, have to retire from football due to COVID?
“This is the safest environment we could have our guys without a doubt … These guys are safer here ... We feel like this is the safest place that we could all be.” — Dabo Swinney, Aug. 10, 2020...

It's The Coaching Carousel: Our top picks for the 4 NFL teams that need new top guys
An inevitable truth of every NFL offseason is the coaching carousel. Coaches are relieved of their duties after failed seasons – this year is no different. Before this week, there were seven head coaching positions available. Two have been filled: the Jaguars and the Jets have found their new coache...

Dabo Swinney could learn a lot from a meme of Katt Williams
“You shouldn’t have been talking s***” ...

Idiot of the Year #6: Dabo Swinney, brainless molder of young minds
Welcome to Deadspin’s farewell-to-2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! If you have made it this far, then congratulations, brave traveler....

Guess Brian Kelly and Notre Dame won't have to worry about boycotting the Rose Bowl
Brian Kelly threatened not to take Notre Dame to the Rose Bowl if players’ parents weren’t allowed to attend the College Football Playoff semifinal....

Brian Kelly and Dabo Swinney should be fired if their jobs are truly about leading and protecting young men
College football coaches love to talk about how their job is to be leaders who earn their astronomical paychecks not only by winning football games, but by molding their players into something better, to guide their growth from high school boys to upstanding men who have learned how to handle the wo...

Dabo Swinney sucks even more than you thought yesterday
God save us from the incessant idiocy of college football coaches....

Dabo Swinney either doesn't get that COVID is killing people or doesn't care
This week, as the CDC advises against Thanksgiving travel in a week when the coronavirus rate has soared to a peak of 200,000 cases and 2,000 deaths a day, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is mad as hell....

Trevor Lawrence tests positive for COVID-19 as this all continues to go terribly
The biggest man on campus has COVID-19....

Big-Talking Coaches Boo-Hoo 'Let The Kids Play,' But Were MIA About BLM
If only these big-time college football coaches had the same energy for Black Lives Matter....

College Football Players Are Pulling The Sport’s Racist Curtains Back For All To See
Dabo Swinney doesn’t get it. Nor does he want to....

Pay Attention To Your Coach’s Comments On Race And Justice — Or Their Silence
NCAA national champion Arike Ogunbowale released a pertinent thread of tweets yesterday instructing young athletes to pay attention to which coaches are remaining silent — or hiding behind word soups — on the topic of police brutality against black Americans....

Dabo Swinney's Take On The Pandemic Is What 'Merica Wants To Hear. And That Means We Are All Doomed
In case you missed it, Dabo Swinney, the noted pandemic expert and Clemson football coach, suggested Friday that the coronavirus can be beaten into submission simply through the sheer force of America’s greatness. ...

Dabo Swinney, Whose Team Is Headed For A Blowout Win Anyway, Yells At Kicker For Missing Field Goal
No. 2 Clemson has been manhandling Florida State all game Saturday evening, moving the ball seamlessly under Trevor Lawrence’s stewardship and stopping FSU’s run entirely. None of this was enough to tide over head coach and generally saturnine jerk Dabo Swinney, who decided that he absolutely needed...

Dabo Swinney: Clemson Might Have Accidentally Given PEDs To Suspended Players
It’s not clear from what, or from where, three Clemson players got the performance-enhancing drugs they tested positive for prior to the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 29, but Dabo Swinney appears to already have excuses at the ready in case the culprit came from inside the field house....

Clemson Now Has Three Assistant Coaches Making Over $1 Million A Year
ESPN is reporting that the Clemson University board of trustees approved a pair of $150,000 pay raises today for Tony Elliott and Jeff Scott, who are the co-offensive coordinators of Clemson’s football team. They will each now make $1 million annually....