Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney has not adapted very well to modern college football, particularly with his reluctance to utilize the transfer portal as Clemson was the only FBS team outside of service academies not to sign a single player out of the transfer portal. And college football expert Paul Finebaum thinks his failure to adapt will be his undoing.
During a recent appearance on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning, Paul Finebaum had a pretty brutal message for Dabo Swinney, saying that he thinks his time at Clemson is “nearly up.”
“It is catching up to him as we speak,” Finebaum said on Swinney’s use of the transfer portal. “People that graduated from Clemson, people that are Clemson fans — they don’t think Dabo Swinney is going to be there a long time. When I say long time, I mean three to five years. I think his time is nearly up.”
Finebaum thinks that Clemson has simply fallen off from the elite program it was several years ago.
“He is falling so far behind,” Finebaum said. “That doesn’t mean they can’t have a good program. That is if you call 9-3 or 8-4 or maybe an occasional 10-2 a good program. But that’s not the same school that went to six consecutive CFPs a few years ago, played for four national championships. I think that part of it is over.”
We’ll have to see whether or not Swinney proves him wrong.
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