Nailed it. I noticed Dabo’s comments as well and thought they were interesting. It certainly feels like Clemson has rested on it’s haunches the past few years in recruiting. They missed on Eitienne’s little brother and several others, UGA expanded their fence into SC and flat out owns Ga now.
It also feels like Dabo is a bit out of the loop/not in touch and with multiple coordinators leaving the staff his input is more important than ever.
I found it interesting how the broadcast mentioned Dabo felt this year’s Clemson team was the most responsible and accountable team they ever had, more than the championship teams. Yet on the field that was one of the sloppiest performances I’ve seen from a Clemson team, missed tackles, blown assignments, unforced turnovers. That was not a mentally locked in team last night and that falls on Dabo for not getting the boys dialed in.
Dabo rode Venables and his OCs to many great seasons. He would sell the recruits and his coordinators would develop them and get them in the right places. Due to lesser talent and lesser coaches, the program is now leaning on Dabo more than ever. He is a PE coach with a genius for promotion, may not work as well now though.
I think Elko is more of a B1G guy. Jersey native, Ivy League undergrad, coached under Clawson in the MAC and ACC for a dozen years, ND. Only SEC background is a few years at TAMU. He might fit in the SEC about as well as Joe Morehead did.
If Harbaugh flees for the NFL, I can see Michigan going after him. Northwestern for sure, but aside from money and facilities, how much better a job is that over Duke? Avoid Rutgers at all costs. I don’t know if any of the good jobs nationally are opening up anytime soon. Saban has to be close to retiring, right? I wouldn’t want to follow him at Bama though.
Duke went 9-4 last year - all of their losses by one score (and three of those by a field goal or less). All losses to bowl game teams (upstart Kansas, Pitt, UNC) with exception of GT.
Hadn’t seen anyone mention yet, but Tony was actually headed to Duke until we came calling (again) after backing out of Poindexter.
Still stands that Dabo has had talent all over, though they were especially dominant (and stable) at DL and QB. I was at UGA for grad school at the time and that WR unit was effing scary…and a shade over a decade later they are barely a footnote in the richest position groups Clemson has had in the last 15 years.
You’re right I forgot about that group of guys. They were part of the initial Watson era if I recall. I know I undersold the offensive talent to make a point.
UL up big on Murray St. 48-0. Nothing really major of note aside from the fact that the Cards’ starting QB Jack Plummer looks like a 35 year old journeyman backup who did two stints in the CFL.
Surprising. From the looks of him, I would have guessed that Jack is Jake’s father and drank at least a 6 pack at the tailgate before each of Jake’s games at ASU.
You know, I think I’m with the NCAA on this policy. Maybe this isn’t the ideal bright line case for them because of the sympathetic student situation, but 1) does this cost the guy eligibility to play? No. And 2) does this hurt his educational opportunity? No and probably enhances it. Spending an extra year in school likely greatly enhances his chance to actually graduate and get a degree. What are the odds that any upper class transfer could finish a UNC degree in a semester or year? Like that’d be impossible at UVA.
I kind of agree. Just in theory, it’d be fine to have a rule that was more or less along the lines of: you can transfer without sitting out once, and then after that, you have to sit out a year. But even if that’s the case, you would probably still need to have a waiver for extreme situations using some reasonable criteria. But the NCAA is never gonna get that latter stuff right, if for no other reason than there are way too many applications to have any sort of uniform criteria.
I object in principle to regulating student-athlete’s transfers more restrictively than non-athlete students. I don’t think that rule is in place to promote degree completion as a primary goal, it’s trying to limit student-athlete movement by making it painful to do so. If degree completion is the goal, then I think the policy should be more focused on academic eligibility standards rather than the transfer itself.
I know I’m being pedantic here, but it’s not treating them any differently from any non-athlete students. Just like non-athletes, they remain free to transfer as they please, and begin taking classes right away, provided they meet the academic criteria.
The question/issue relates only to their athletic participation, not their academic participation.
Just to add – I think this is one way where it’s just better to treat the whole endeavor for the business arrangement that it is (rather than focusing on the academic element).
I think it’s suboptimal for various reasons for major hoops and football to allow total freedom of movement for players. The same way it’s suboptimal for the same thing in pro team sports, and they’ve designed various ways to limit it. Fans generally prefer to have some familiarity with the players on their team, and coaches tend to like that, too (to be fair – they also like being able to get rid of guys).
But the general myths the NCAA is trying to maintain makes that overall pitch a little tone deaf. More than a little
