Arising on this week’s Tiger Calls: Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney berates Tyler from Spartanburg, telling the caller he’s a part of the issue, whereas saying he (Dabo) takes “one hundred pc duty” for his workforce’s 4-4 report. Nevertheless, we’re not right here to nitpick all the 5-minute rant, as a result of accountability and logic exit the window once you’re within the throes of a wonderful, emotional tangent.
Listed below are some highlights for these of you who don’t wish to put your earbuds in (shout out Yahoo Sports activities for the transcription).
“Hey Tyler, I’ve listened to sufficient of you, Tyler. You may have all of your opinions that you really want. I don’t know the way outdated you might be, don’t actually care. However let me let you know one thing. We gained 11 video games final yr.
“And also you’re a part of the issue, to be trustworthy with you. As a result of that’s a part of the issue. It’s folks such as you — the appreciation, the expectation is larger than the appreciation. And that’s the issue.
“We’ve gained 12 10-plus-win seasons in a row. That’s occurred 3 times in 150 years. So when you wanna know why. Clemson ain’t sniffed a nationwide championship for 35 years. We’ve gained two in seven years. And there’s solely two different groups that may say that: Georgia and Alabama. OK?”
Swinney makes level in regards to the appreciation-expectation facet, as a result of once you’re within the operating for nationwide titles, each week is an audition for the playoff. The Tigers gained 11 video games a yr in the past, so there was no motive for the coach to heed the warning indicators of attainable regression.
That’s additionally why Swinney would say issues like this:
“I’ve been part of failure many occasions, however there ain’t one factor in my life that I’ve ever failed at, Ty-ler. By no means. Alright? Ever.”
He went on to listing all of the feats he set his thoughts to, and subsequently completed. Needed to get an schooling, received two levels. Needed to play at Alabama, earned a scholarship. Needed to be a head coach, did that, too. Needed to begin a household, is now married with three kids.
Thank god he stopped himself wanting, “I needed to marry an 8, ended up with a 9.5, Ty-ler.”
Swinney ended the diatribe with a terrific quasi-meltdown.
“I’m not gonna sit right here and allow you to name in — I don’t care how a lot cash I make. You ain’t gonna speak to me like I’m 12 years outdated. Gotta be freaking kidding me.”
The Clemson head man has come below fired just lately for his hesitancy to embrace the switch portal, sticking along with his conventional strategy. Not solely did Dabo’s teaching friends cave to the strain, however fellow ACC rivals did, as nicely.
Florida State — a workforce within the high 5, and one Clemson would’ve overwhelmed if it had a greater Plan B at kicker than a man enrolled in on-line programs — seems to have usurped the Tigers’ place atop the convention. And no person at Clemson, no less than not Swinney, or the followers, appears to be dealing with it very nicely.
I simply wish to thank Tiger Calls, Tyler from Spartanburg, and Dabo Swinney for giving the lots that second of vulnerability, and comedy.
