00:00You brought up Dabo Sweeney. How do you weigh, Bill, a guy like Dabo Sweeney who, you know, for a
00:05seven, eight year run was in the conversation for top two or three coaches, top two or three teams every
00:11year to where they've kind of been on the slide. Yeah, they made the playoff two years ago, but this
00:17year they were supposed to take a step and they've seemed to slide back to their pre-12 team playoff
00:23position. How do you kind of figure that out for him?
00:28He's tough. I mean, he's kind of slid down the rankings with each year and, you know, obviously there's a
00:33lot made about how he uses the portal or NIL and those kinds of things. And we haven't seen, I'm
00:40trying to think, they played Ohio State in those playoff games, but we haven't seen that roster, right? Those receivers.
00:47That's what I think is missing from Clemson. They have draft picks and they have defensive guys, but I remember
00:52covering a national championship game where it was Justin Ross on one side and T Higgins on the other.
00:57And Trevor Lawrence throwing him the ball and the offensive firepower they had at the time was unbelievable. And it
01:04hasn't been quite the same. They have some players. So it's made it tough because Dabo has done a fantastic
01:11job there.
01:12In a lot of ways there are parallels to Kurt Signetti in the early days, but maintaining that in this
01:17new era has been tough because you could make the argument right now in the ACC that Mario Cristobal is
01:23the top coach, or even like a guy like Rhett Lashley, who has SMU right in the playoff conversation every
01:28year. And I think they'll continue to be there.
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