Dabo is hard to figure out. He's almost a comic book type caricature, but other coaches seem to respect him. He jumps around and hollers and cheerleads more than he coaches, but he wins (if you watch him on the sidelines he rarely wears a headset and seems to leave much of the play-to-play coaching to his assistants). He tends to speak in long strings of overused sports cliche's and his press conferences can ramble on for up to an hour, but the media almost always writes glowing articles about him. If you believe local HS coaches and a few recruits he uses pretty harsh negative recruiting tactics (that part is hearsay, so treat it as such), but he's consistently labeled as one of the top recruiters in the nation. He consistently tries to convince juniors who are draft eligible and projected to go in top 3 rounds that they would be better suited to come back their senior season when it is really not in their best interest to do so, but he's seen as a player's coach.
Little Dabo does should be working, but it does, so I've given up explaining it. I guess at the end of the day he's an outstanding recruiter and he hires top notch assistants and has paid them well enough to keep stability on his staff. That's why he wins IMO. I also think he sells his poor background really well to kids from similar backgrounds, much like Bear did (y'all should ban me from the board for comparing Dabo to Bear, but in this case it fits). He's done really well recruiting-wise with kids without fathers in the picture, and I think he brings a special ability to relate well to them and they cling to that.
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