Dabo Swinney has come full circle as a college football coach.
One thing that has become brutally clear over the last six months of 2020, Clemson football head coach Dabo Swinney has lived long enough to see himself become an enemy to college football fans from coast to coast.
As Harvey Dent said in the blockbuster movie The Dark Knight Rises – “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” and Dabo comically has somehow become the villain in college football.
We have seen fans, local reporters, and national reporters all come for his head in some fashion over the last six months. He has been called uncaring, fake, racist, and nearly every other adjective that you can use to describe somehow our society is trying to cancel.
His answers are never good enough, his t-shirts are taken out of context, and everything he does is to save his job $9 million a year cushy coaching job in little ol’ racist Clemson, South Carolina. (Sorry, there is no sarcasm font, but please understand that the last part of the sentence is nothing but sarcasm – but we all know that Clemson has been called many things lately)
That said, there are three fan bases, that have completely lost their minds when it comes to their hatred for Dabo Swinney and at this point, every time someone from these three fan bases brings up his name, not only is completely absurd but it has become comical to read on social media.
Corona-bros
No, we are not making light of COVID-19. We understand that millions have tested positive and thousands have died as a result.
Yes, we are laughing at the sheer stupidity of those that have aligned themselves that only selfish coaches like Dabo Swinney are willing to play during a global pandemic.
Make no mistake about it, playing college football was the right call.
Nearly 600 college football games have been played since September. Not one coach, one player, one official, or one fan has contracted COVID as a result of a game nor has anyone been hospitalized. Yes, you have media people like Dan Wolken taking shots at Dabo every opportunity that they get.
Let’s briefly reflect back to FSU week when Dabo was outraged that FSU called off the game just three hours before kickoff and Clemson had spent $300,000 to travel down to Tallahassee.
If there was an incorrect piece of information to give out, Corona-bro fans and media made sure to regurgitate the same lies in order to make Swinney look as bad as possible.
Ohio State
Good luck finding a single Clemson football or Dabo Swinney Twitter feed that doesn’t include something from a salty Ohio State Buckeye fan.
Twice now over the last eight months, we have inexplicably gone through a toilet paper shortage in this country. Literally, no one can tell you why. The only logical explanation is the fact that Buckeye fans have cried so much since their December loss to Clemson that they have used up all the toilet paper.
Now that you can’t find it in stores, they have taken to social media to cry about what a meanie head they think Dabo Swinney is.
Seriously, Buckeye fans HATE that Dabo beat Urban Meyer twice and has also been the one to hand Ryan Day his one and only loss as a college football head coach.
Last week when Dabo told Rich Eisen he would not select Ohio State to the College Football Playoffs, Buckeye fans could change their pampers fast enough. Here is just a clip of what Dabo told Eisen –
"“I wouldn’t have an issue with it because, again, it’s not my position to have an issue with it. My position is to coach my team, regardless of whoever. I just think there has to be some type of standard. If I was on the committee, it would be hard for me to leave out a 10-1 Texas A&M or an 11-game Florida team over a team that’s played six games. That would be hard for me if I was on a committee, but I’m not on the committee. So it doesn’t really matter.”"
South Carolina
Of course, the Gamecocks have to be number one, don’t they?
Like we said about the Ohio State Buckeyes and their need to chime in on every Clemson football or Dabo Swinney related topic, the team in Columbia is much much worse and they are by far more insufferable.
Unlike Ohio State, South Carolina isn’t relevant in football – never have been and never will be. How bad are they? Much like when they hired Will Muschamp, their first choice candidate turned them down and they ended up having to settle for their second choice.
They so badly want to see Dabo and Clemson fail that they are willing to say anything publicly to try and bring him down because they are jealous of what he has created in podunk Clemson. They can’t fathom why their glorious university is unable to attract the coaching or player talent that Clemson does, so it all must be illegal.
The most comical aspect of their latest hire – it is Dabo esque.
A highly respected coach that once played college football at the highest level, was never a coordinator, had no prior head coaching experiencing, a very young married father of three, and comes from the coaching tree of coaching royalty.
They sure act like they hate Dabo but they could not wait to hire a guy that sure resembled him.