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Dabo Swinney goes ballistic on caller on radio show (watch the teaser titles please...)

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by GoCocks3877, Oct 30, 2023.

  1. GoCocks3877

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    Clemson’s Dabo Swinney went on an epic 5-minute rant tonight after ‘Tyler, from Spartanburg’ asked him about his $11.5 million salary and 4-4 season. “I’m not gonna sit here and let you, I don’t care how much money I make. You’re not gonna talk to me like I’m 12-years old..”

     
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  2. gator_n_sc

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    Coach Swinney is not wrong. There are VERY few coaches and teams who have been more successful than Swinney and the Clemson Tigers over the last decade or so.
     
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  3. Heisenberg

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    Ready for the guaranteed bacon, but I don’t have a single problem with what he said or how he said it.
     
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  4. Wanne15

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    It won’t show me the video but I’m sure I probably agree with him
     
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  5. gator_n_sc

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    Me either, if 11 wins is a down year like the caller said it was year then damn I'd take their down year in a second.
     
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  6. Heisenberg

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    This is precisely the type of crap that factored into SOS’s departure.
     
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  7. FutureGatorMom

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    Good for him, what a dumb fan.
     
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  8. Wanne15

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    The thing about dumb fan is they don’t know they are dumb. They usually think they are quite witty, and have all the answers.
     
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  9. MarineG8R

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    Clemson fans might wanna be careful, they might be looking at a 15 year slump chasing those glory years.
     
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  10. gatordavisl

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    Can somebody please link this? I tried those search words in Youtube and didn't find it.
     
  11. GoCocks3877

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  12. Wanne15

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    Dats right. Tell ‘em Dabo
     
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  13. believer

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    Zero issues with what he said
     
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  14. KronoGator

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    Good for him, at least he wasn't kicking a garbage can. ;)
     
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  15. gatorwalrus

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    How many coaches around the country want to give Dabo a high five right now?
     
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  16. recongator

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    I get the feeling he’s been waiting for the opportunity to say all that. Dayuum
     
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  17. 06GATORS08

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    Transcript:

    "Hey, Tyler, l’ve listened to enough of you, Tyler. Listen. You can have all your opinions that you want. I don’t know how old you are, don’t really care. But let me tell you something. We won 11 games last year. And you’re part of the problem, to be honest with you, because that is part of the problem. It’s people like you, that all you do ...”

    “The appreciation, the expectation is greater than the appreciation. And that’s the problem. And so we’ve won 12 10-plus win seasons in a row. That’s happened three times in 150 years. So if you want to know why? Clemson ain’t sniff a national championship for 35 years, we’ve won two in seven years. And there’s only two other teams that can say that: Georgia and Alabama, OK. Is this a bad year? Yeah, and it’s my responsibility. Take 100% responsibility for it. But all this bull crap you’re thinking, all these narratives you read. Listen, man, you can have your opinion all you want, and you can apply for the job. And good luck to you. All right?”

    “But to answer your question, we’re second in (NFL) draft picks. We’ve graduated 98% of our guys, we’re second in wins all right? if you wanna know why, again, I’m telling you, we’re not perfect. ... Did Frank Howard never have a bad year? Coach Ford never had a bad year? Coach K never had a bad year in basketball? People have a bad year. But the part of the problem is the appreciation. I used to tell people all the time ... They’d say, what’s the difference in Clemson? Let me tell you, at some places, there’s an expectation, but at Clemson, there’s an appreciation.”

    “And what’s happened at Clemson is we’ve won so much that even ... it used to be the fun’s in the winning. Now even when you win, people like you complain and criticize the coaches and question everything. People like you, all right, when I hired Tony Elliott to be the offensive coordinator who never called a play in his life, I’m sure you were critical then. All right, and he took us to two national championships. People like you who just love to destroy people with your comments.”

    “I’m sure you’ve never made any bad decisions. I’m sure you’ve lived a perfect life. I’m sure you led a bunch of people. I’m sure you do your job. So to answer your question, I started as the lowest-paid coach in this frickin’ business. All right, and I’m where I am because I’ve worked my arse off every single day. And I ain’t gonna let some smart-ass kid get on this phone and create this stuff. So if you’ve got a problem with it, I don’t care, all right? I work for the board of trustees, the president and the AD. And if they’re tired of me leading this program, all they gotta do is let me know. I’ll go somewhere else where there is an appreciation.”

    “It’s not just winning, it’s how you win. ... This is a tough year. But we’ve had 12 10-plus win seasons in a row — 12. We lost to Tennessee last year, they won 11 games for the first time in like 20 years. We’ve had eight 11-win seasons in 11 years or whatever. We’ve won two national championships. Clemson went 35 years (without a championship), all right, probably since before you were born — your whole freakin’ life. And we’ve won two in seven years. And we earned it. And we beat the best of the best to do it. The best of the best. Twelve 10-plus wins seasons, so if you wanna know why, that’s why.”

    “Am I perfect? No. I’m far from it. And I am a man of faith. Absolutely. All right. I’m 53 years old. And there ain’t one thing in my life ... I have been a part of failure many times. But there ain’t one thing in my life that I’ve ever failed at, Tyler. Never. Ever. I wanted to get an education. I got two degrees. I wanted to be the first college graduate in my family, I did it. I wanted to go play football at Alabama. I earned a scholarship letter three years, worked my arse off, won a national championship. I wanted to get into coaching. I worked my way to being a head coach. And when I got this job, and I’m sure you didn’t want me to get this job, all right. And 15 years later, I’m still here. And I’d say the results are what they are and I stand on them.”

    “So you don’t ever have to call back. I wanted to get married. I’ve been married for going on 30 years. I wanted to be a father, I’ve raised three great sons. If you don’t like how I run the program, don’t be a fan. I don’t care. But I’m the head coach and I’m gonna do what I believe is right for the long term of this program, what’s best for the players and what I think is best for the moment. If you got a problem with that, that’s fine. But I’m not gonna sit here and let you call. I don’t give a crap how much money I make. You ain’t gonna talk to me like I’m 12 years old. Gotta be freaking kidding me.”

    After a brief pause, Clemson radio man Don Munson replied: “Amen.” Then, after one more call, the show went to commercial.
     
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  18. chunks1

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    11.5 is a hell of an appreciation.
     
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  19. GoCocks3877

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    I believe it was staged to fire up his team.

    They let this guy go on and on trashing the HC. How many radio call in shows has anyone ever heard that allows a caller just to berate the coach as he’s sitting there?

    This is the whole firing up a locker room who is struggling to find an identity.
     
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  20. 06GATORS08

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    You know, I think you're on to something. Call-in shows with coaches are like propaganda. No way they let that dude go on like that if it wasn't staged.
     
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