Maryland Reaction
Clemson lost to Maryland this past saturday 24-21. I sat down last night to watch my recording of the game so that I could dissect everything that happened, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. After watching the first quarter of the game, I saw all that I needed to see.
As I said in my writeup of the TCU game, this team suffers from a lack of experience and/or talent in the offensive coaching staff. We didn't improve on any of the problems I listed, and we continued to look lost and panicked on the offensive side of the ball. This week, our defense didn't save us, and so we lost an embarrassing game to a pitiful team.
Clemson should have never hired Dabo Swinney without stipulating that he bring in a new offensive coordinator with a new offensive coaching staff. There are some who argue that they didn't even look for any other coaches, and that Dabo had the job from day one. Whatever the case, we have not rid ourselves of the scourge that is Tommy Bowden football. Inconsistent offense, shaky special teams, and good defense. We've got the same thing now that we've had for the last 10 years. This is not going to change under the current coaching staff.
So what should we do? Well it's simple, we need Dabo to remove himself from calling plays and we need a real offensive coordinator. If we can't do this right now, then we need to put Brad Scott in charge of the offense until the end of the year, then bring in a completely new offensive coaching staff. Brad Scott might even work for the long term, he was a great offensive coordinator at Florida State and he had some success here at Clemson before being thrown under the bus by Tommy Bowden.
I think Dabo is a great guy and will be a great head coach, but he needs to clean house on the offensive side of the ball and bring in some real coaches. Our plays develop too slowly, we never run basic routes like quick slants or TE curls, our receivers can't block, catch, or run routes, etc, etc. These problems all point to bad coaching, and we have to fix that now or by the end of the year Dabo won't have a job.
As I said in my writeup of the TCU game, this team suffers from a lack of experience and/or talent in the offensive coaching staff. We didn't improve on any of the problems I listed, and we continued to look lost and panicked on the offensive side of the ball. This week, our defense didn't save us, and so we lost an embarrassing game to a pitiful team.
Clemson should have never hired Dabo Swinney without stipulating that he bring in a new offensive coordinator with a new offensive coaching staff. There are some who argue that they didn't even look for any other coaches, and that Dabo had the job from day one. Whatever the case, we have not rid ourselves of the scourge that is Tommy Bowden football. Inconsistent offense, shaky special teams, and good defense. We've got the same thing now that we've had for the last 10 years. This is not going to change under the current coaching staff.
So what should we do? Well it's simple, we need Dabo to remove himself from calling plays and we need a real offensive coordinator. If we can't do this right now, then we need to put Brad Scott in charge of the offense until the end of the year, then bring in a completely new offensive coaching staff. Brad Scott might even work for the long term, he was a great offensive coordinator at Florida State and he had some success here at Clemson before being thrown under the bus by Tommy Bowden.
I think Dabo is a great guy and will be a great head coach, but he needs to clean house on the offensive side of the ball and bring in some real coaches. Our plays develop too slowly, we never run basic routes like quick slants or TE curls, our receivers can't block, catch, or run routes, etc, etc. These problems all point to bad coaching, and we have to fix that now or by the end of the year Dabo won't have a job.
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