Where Dabo has it over Saban (and, I think, the only way) is staff retention. Amazing Venables hasn't taken a head coaching gig someplace, and apparently has no desire to.
Well; there's that; would luv to see a hideous Bama Champ shirtThe Clemson championship shirts are hideous.
One thing that really jumped out to me was the statement that Dabo has lost only three assistants during this 4-5 year run while we are a coaching merry-go-round right now. That kind of difference in continuity is stark and very notable. It may shed some light on to who we target for candidates and who is easier to coach for. I'd love to find a Mickey Andrews, Brent Venebles and to a lesser extent John Chavis who are content with a career of being the best DC they can be. We've increasingly become a stepping stone program with coaches, and we should look inside and see why that is the case. Of course, the success brings the suitors, but apparently Dabo can hang on a little better than us.Congratulations to Clemson. Great effort. Feel bad for the seniors at Alabama, but they had a great run. These two senior classes both had identical W/L records, and both won 2 national championships. Crazy.
Now time for the off-season. Time to avoid ESPN until the spring game.
The road to #18 continues, and I can't wait to see how Saban adjusts.
Roll Tide!
Unfortunately Dabo ain't no fluke nor a joke. They ain't going anywhere. Dabo said last season "we'll be back". Looks like he was right. Tonight he officially became a great coach. His staff neutered ours in dominating fashion.
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They confused our OL about as badly as they confused ND and it appeared to me that we learned nothing from watching it...Clemson wasn't challenged all that much either. This was about matchups and Clemson won the matchup that Alabama most needed to win to get stops on defense. We knew their skill guys would have scoring opportunities against this back seven but the DL was suppose to hurry more throws to help them out. We struggled in short yardage offense all season which is why we went to the Jacobs wildcat so much from around November onward. These things killed us tonight. Players gotta get better and make plays. Not much gameplanning can do about inability to cover guys in pass coverage and inability to get a hat on a hat in short yardage.
I do need a break from ESPN...perfect timing.Well,one good thing is I don't have to watch espn till September!
The same could be said of Clemson. You win some, you lose some. And some times you get your tail whipped.The team had it too easy most of the season, Tua had it too easy most of the season. They forgot how to fight. They were absolutely talented enough and good enough to win the game, but they didn't have the fight in them they needed to have. That's all there is to it.
They should bounce back though, this sort of things can light a fire under a team (last year's loss sure seemed to do that for Clemson).
If he has even the tiniest itch to become a head coach we will find out this offseason. He just earned himself some pretty good offers.Where Dabo has it over Saban (and, I think, the only way) is staff retention. Amazing Venables hasn't taken a head coaching gig someplace, and apparently has no desire to.
This. Coach Saban’s relationship with his assistants reminds me of Coach Calipari and his relationship with his players, Cal will encourage his players like crazy to declare, I would imagine Saban does the same with his assistants with taking other jobs but we got to retain some consistency in the coaching stuff, we’ve become Last Chance U Coaching in that regard.Where Dabo has it over Saban (and, I think, the only way) is staff retention. Amazing Venables hasn't taken a head coaching gig someplace, and apparently has no desire to.