cc: Dabo Swinney
Dabo Swinney, 44 years old
Head Coach - Clemson (2008-present)
57-25 overall record, 3-3 in Bowl Games (1 Orange Bowl win in 2014)
2011 ACC Championship, 2011 Bobby Dodd winner
All of his coaching experience has been at two schools - Alabama under Mike DuBose and Clemson under Tommy Bowden before taking over the HC position in the middle of the 2008 season. Swinney's first full season as head football coach the team went 9-5, 2010 they dropped to 6-7, but then saw a climb to 10-4 in 2011, followed by back-to-back 11-2 season in 2012 and 2013. Currently the Tigers are 6-2 with losses to Georgia and Florida State.
Here's how his total offense/defenes have ranked:
'09: 37th O / 46th D
'10: 82nd O / 18th D
'11: 16th O / 100th D
'12: 8th O / 74th D
'13: 12th O / 29th D
'14: 70th O / 2nd D (season obviously not complete)
As for recruiting (per Rivals) his 2009 class was 37th in the country followed by the 19th in 2010, 8th in 2011, 14th in 2012, 14th in 2013 and 13th in 2014. Clemson currently has the #2 class in the nation with two 5 stars and nine 4 stars (21 total commits)
Swinney's entire career has been in the South, so it would seem hard to be able to pull him to Michigan, but maybe opening the checkbook could sway him up North. He currently earns $3.3mil while Hoke is at $4.3 (per coacheshotseat.com). Despite not having ties to Michigan, he seems like a candidate I would like to see the school go after or at the very least, reach out to. Not a flashy candidate, but seems like a coach who will put his teams in the top 25 every year and keep them contended year in and year out. Thoughts?
November 6th, 2014 at 10:22 PM ^
Well...his team is currently struggling with 2-6 wake forest....sounds like a fireable offense by our standards.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
Clemson is on their 2nd/3rd string QB and back up RB due to injuries.
I would not judge the coaching staff too harshly on their current play, especially on offense.
November 6th, 2014 at 11:01 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 11:29 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 11:41 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:24 PM ^
Clemson struggling to stay ahead of Wake Forest is my thought: doesn't inspire confidence.
November 6th, 2014 at 11:01 PM ^
November 7th, 2014 at 7:55 AM ^
I always base my hiring decisions on what the prospective employee did five minutes ago.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:26 PM ^
Is this a joke? I don't want to be Clemson.
I mean, Clemsoning is a verb now, and it's not a good thing.
ETA: Who wouldn't win a crapload of games in the ACC? And he's never beaten South Carolina, has he?
November 6th, 2014 at 11:02 PM ^
November 7th, 2014 at 6:12 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:24 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:24 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:24 PM ^
He's made Clemson pretty respectable, but theres a reason "Clemsoning" is a term so widely known that it's used by publications as prominent as the Washington Post.
They are always good, never great. And they just perpetually choke in the spotlight. We can do better.
November 7th, 2014 at 8:45 AM ^
Always good, never great. Kind of like Michi... oooooo.
In all seriousness though, even Dabo, the Kind of Clemsoning, would be an upgrade to the HC we have currently. Amiright?
Don't get me wrong. Its hi time for Harbaugh (Harbaugh: 2015!!) but of all the names that have been floated out there (Todd Graham?? Greg Schiano??????) Dabo is not the craziest.
November 7th, 2014 at 6:12 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:24 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
Swinney record at Clemson before hiring Chad Morris as OC 19-15
Swinney record at Clemson after hiring Chad Morris as OC 38-10
If you are fan of what Clemson has done over the past 3-4 years, the guy you want is Chad Morris not Dabo Swinney.
November 7th, 2014 at 6:13 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
someone would make at least one topic about Harbaugh on this board. Not enough talk about him.
November 7th, 2014 at 12:25 AM ^
So your response is to create a thread about the possibility of Michigan hiring Swinney? Okay.
November 7th, 2014 at 9:04 AM ^
extremely sarcastic about my response to the Harbaugh post....
I'm not sure if you've seen some of the cc posts or not, but a lot of them are completely unrealistic. They are fun to put together and get you thinking about other coaches. Swinney is a good coach that has his program heads and shoulders above where Michigan is at this point. I would take what Clemson has from 2007-present compared to what Michigan has given me 2007-present. That being said, obviously I want a coach like Harbaugh or a guy who can make an instant splash, but I'm pretty sure making a cc post, realistic or not, is a bad thing.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:29 PM ^
to Dabo Swinney
November 6th, 2014 at 10:34 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:35 PM ^
Southern guys like money too.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:35 PM ^
I say we avoid orange.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:35 PM ^
Southern guys like money too.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:36 PM ^
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November 6th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
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November 7th, 2014 at 8:09 AM ^
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November 6th, 2014 at 10:41 PM ^
If we're going to consider Dabo Swinney, we also have to consider Eric The Half A Bee....
November 6th, 2014 at 11:35 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 10:42 PM ^
Also just ok.
Also named "dabo".
November 6th, 2014 at 10:43 PM ^
crowd will never tolerate another southern accent here
November 6th, 2014 at 10:43 PM ^
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November 7th, 2014 at 12:44 PM ^
Oh relax. I've found a handful of your own threads that you upvoted. Pot meet kettle.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:48 PM ^
Les Miles is the best option in the SEC. 1. He'd take it. 2. He's a better recruiter than anyone but Saban in the SEC and he's better than anyone else in the SEC at beating Saban. Miles is a great coach and if Harbaugh doesn't want it, Miles WILL take it. So just stop with the crazy, any coach down south crap.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:50 PM ^
Dan Mullen, head coach of the currently top ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs who have exactly one SEC title in their history says hi.
November 6th, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^
7-6
8-5
7-6
What Dan Mullen did the last three years prior to this year. His last "big" win prior to this year was beating us in the Gator Bowl
He's not in Les Miles league yet.
November 6th, 2014 at 11:08 PM ^
Hmmm 7-6, 8-5, 7-6 in the SEC.
Those records seem very familiar. Difference is, Michigan is playing the sorry B1G.
Yeah. We're gonna have a losing season in the worst of the Power 5 conferences.
I'd take Les over Hoke. I'd take canned yams over Hoke. But I MUCH rather have Mullen. It's Mississippi State. #1? There? In that division of that conference?
November 6th, 2014 at 11:25 PM ^
Dan Mullen was 2-21 against ranked teams prior to this season (with 14 straight losses). Even with a program like Mississippi State in a conference like the SEC, that's not good. And those overall records are misleading because of how terrible MSU's nonconference opponents are most years (e.g., this year they play Southern MIss, UAB, South Alabama and UT Martin).
What he's done this year is outstanding, and he's a really good candidate for our job because of it. But he needs to be looked at very carefully, because it's not yet clear whether he is building an excellent program or just caught lightning in a bottle in the first eight games of this season.
There's a tendency on this board to evaluate a guy's candidacy entirely by how is team is performing at this exact moment. We've even had threads about how possible candidates' profiles changed based on the past Saturday's games. That strikes me as a very bad way to hire a coach, especially when most of the hot coaches this second will likely regress to the mean next year.
November 6th, 2014 at 11:30 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 11:43 PM ^
The second best team in this conference lost at home by double digits to a Virginia Tech team that isn't exactly...........good.
Virginia Tech is 4-5. Here are their losses
- East Carolina (at home)
- Georgia Tech (at home)
- Pittsburgh (road)
- Miami (30-6 at home!)
- Boston College (at home)
Virginia Tech would probably beat us by double digits. As would most of the ACC outside of Wake Forest and NC State.
Yes. Duke would blow us out. In football.
November 7th, 2014 at 12:55 AM ^
Duke's football team has a better record in the last 18 games than its basketball team.
15-3 vs 13-5 lol.