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Somehow the 'BuT-tHe-AmATeUR-MoDeL!' NCAA survived the beginning of NIL
We’re approaching the four-month mark since the NCAA officially approved name, image, and likeness rights for student-athletes and, somehow, the apocalypse has not come, the collegiate model has not collapsed, and Dabo Swinney is still coaching (to some extent, at least). As athletes, schools, spons...
You need to win more than just games at the U, Manny
The Miami Hurricanes are 2-4 and their athletic director is saying things like, “Everyone’s constantly being evaluated,” which is AD speak for “Manny Diaz needs to start winning or I’m gonna lose my job, too.”...
Pitt is a three-point favorite against Clemson this weekend… how did it come to this?
Yep, you read that right. The University of Pittsburgh is favored Saturday against the formerly formidable Clemson Tigers — the same team that made appearances in six College Football Playoffs in a span of six years, winning two championships along the way. With the way Dabo Swinney’s team is playin...
Dabo must be shaking in his Skechers
The University of Connecticut has won a football game....
If only NIL money forced Dabo Swinney out of college football
Clemson is 2-2, and as big of a shock as that is for a program that’s won the last six ACC titles with a pair of national championships along the way, we really should have seen it coming....
Tom Brady makes news? You don't say...
Tom Brady couldn’t catch a pass in Super Bowl LII, but he did catch COVID-19 after the Buccaneers’ parade for their Super Bowl LV victory....
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. ...
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...
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 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. ...