A frustrated Dabo Swinney defended his Clemson career to a radio caller who questioned his performance as one of college football's highest-paid coaches.
The exchange took place Monday night during Swinney's weekly, in-season call-in show when someone identified only as “Tyler in Spartanburg” asked why Swinney is being paid so much to go 4-4 this season.. “To be honest with you, because that is part of the problem, it's people like you. ... The appreciation, the expectation is greater than the appreciation and that's the problem."
“Is this a bad year? Yeah, and it's my responsibility. Take 100% responsibility for it,” Swinney continued."But all this bull crap you’re thinking, all these narratives you read. Listen, man, you can have your opinion all you want, and you can apply for the job. And good luck to you.”Swinney, who turns 54 in November, is in the second year of a $115 million, 10-year contract received in September 2022 that ties him to Clemson through the 2031 season.
“We are at a point now where if you don’t go undefeated, ‘you are losers and you’re terrible’ and that is just such a terrible mindset,” Swinney said then. “And honestly, maybe we need to lose a few games and lighten up the bandwagon, sometimes the bandwagon can get a little too full."“But we got 1 1/2 % that they’re with you win or win,” he said.
Clemson went on to lose its next two games at Miami 28-20 in overtime on Oct. 21 and at North Carolina State 24-17 on Saturday. It's the first time Clemson has lost four games in a season since 2010, when it went 6-7 in Swinney's second full season.Clemson athletic spokesman Jeff Kallin said Tuesday that Swinney and athletic Graham Neff regularly talk and he thought that the radio comments would come up.
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