For nearly two decades before Dabo Swinney was hired at Clemson, the Tigers hadn't won more than nine games in a single season.
In fact, you'd have to go all the way back to 1990 when Ken Hatfield was still head coach to find the last time the Tigers won 10-plus games in a single season before Swinney's hiring in 2009. So when the Tigers hired him to replace Tommy Bowden, there was hope that he would take the team to the next level, but that's all it was -- hope.
Since he was hired in 2009, Clemson has won 180 games which includes 13 seasons of at least 10 wins. That's right, it took 20 seasons for Clemson to finally have a 10-win season after Hatifield's 1990 campaign and since he took over, Dabo has led the program to 13 such campaigns.
Dabo has won 10 Atlantic Division titles, nine ACC titles, and two national championships since being hired and he's in elite company when it comes to multi-time national title-winning head coaches.
CBS Sports agrees that he deserves all the love and recently ranked him as the No. 3 hire in college football since 2000 behind two Hall of Famers.
Shehan Jeyarajah of CBS Sports ranked the top 25 coaching hires since 2000 recently and he has Dabo at No. 3 behind only Nick Saban at Alabama and Urban Meyer at Ohio State.
If Dabo can win a couple more national titles before he retires, he could make a legitimate case to be in that top two right behind Saban who I believe is the best college football coach of all time.