Clemson’s head coach, Dabo Swinney, has a few critics, and the biggest one might be ESPN’s college football analyst Paul Finebaum, who hosts a radio show on the SEC Network every weekday.
Swinney has had a rivalry with SEC’s Alabama, beating them in two national championships, so people in SEC country aren’t the biggest fans of the 54-year-old head coach.
Finebaum has been hard on Swinney the past couple of years since Clemson started going down the hill in 2021, and on Monday, Finebaum was having a field day going after the Tigers coach.
Paul Finebaum Says Swinney Is Done At Clemson
Clemson opened their season with a 34-3 loss against Georgia. The Bulldogs are the number one team in the country, but at the end of the day, Clemson looked like they didn’t even belong on the field with some FCS teams and couldn’t even find the endzone.
Swinney was getting crushed all over social media for his team’s performance and how he never wanted to go into the transfer portal and take players, and Finebaum felt the same way as many fans did.
Finebaum was on ESPN’s morning show Get Up on Monday and stated'”Sadly, it seems like Dabo is really done this time at Clemson…Clearly, he has screwed up badly, refusing to go into the portal.”
“Sadly, it seems like Dabo is really done this time at Clemson…Clearly, he has screwed up badly, refusing to go into the portal.”
– Paul Finebaum on Dabo Swinney. pic.twitter.com/e3uUpHwokn
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 2, 2024
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Since quarterback Trevor Lawrence left Swinney at the end of 2020, Clemson has never been the same. The Tigers have failed to reach the college football playoff in the last three years and have had difficulty beating the best teams in the county.
Clemson opened last year with a loss at Duke, which is something that shouldn’t happen to an elite program, but they have seemed to fall from the greatness of college football and are just a middle-of-the-road team.
Swinney has failed and has not wanted to adapt to the new era of college football, not liking anything about NIL and not going into the transfer portal because he doesn’t think anybody is good enough from the portal to head to Clemson.
If Swinney doesn’t start to wake up, his days will be over with the Tigers, and he will be on some college football broadcast crew breaking down games.
