Dabo Swinney again gets heated discussing FSU postponing game: 'I don't give a crap what they say'
The Clemson Tigers were in Tallahassee on Saturday morning when their game against Florida State was postponed just 3 hours before kickoff.
Now, more details have emerged about what happened. FSU medical personnel didn’t want to play the game after a Clemson player tested positive for COVID-19 after traveling with the team.
On his Monday night radio call-in show, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney was still heated about the Seminoles’ decision, fiercely defending the Clemson medical staff:
Dabo says on his call-in show the game being postponed is an insult to their medical people: “I don’t give a crap what they say. I know what the facts are.”
— Matt Connolly (@MattatTheState) November 24, 2020
Swinney also cited a game FSU played earlier this year after a Pitt player traveled and tested positive for the virus:
Dabo was asked about FSU on call-in show and gave a 4:30 answer. It included:
"Pitt traveled there and had a kid test positive there, and they still played the game."
"We had no positives yesterday."
"It’s an insult to the credibility of our program."https://t.co/LLARKq2Ck6— Matt Connolly (@MattatTheState) November 24, 2020
Clearly, this drama isn’t going away any time soon. The 2 schools could potentially play in December.
The semis are cowards. A low character operation. No wonder Jimbo left that stink hole.
Jimbo left for the same reason Urban left gators, the talent pool dwindled and they had no path to winning anymore. Constant recruiting is hard work and not many top coaches want to continue putting in the time. The ones that do are still winning. I do agree that “Tally” is a stinkhole.
There’s actually a really good article on ESPN discussing what happened with Jimbo and the subsequent years until now. Recruiting really wasn’t the issue. Part of it was not getting financial support for things like facilities, the political issues with administration and boosters, and then the player culture went downhill. It was actually a very interesting read. Obviously, when you are interviewing former players and coaches, things tend to be biased, but it is still a good read.
It’s hard to get big money from boosters for facilities when 90% of your graduates from Mustard and Ketchup university end up working in the fast food industry.
Low character operation indeed but don’t give Dumbo Fisher a pass. He was a big participant in this low character organization covering up and enabling Shameus Winston and his other criminals
FSU is just a joke. They’re a stain on the state of Florida.
As much as I like piling on FSU, I’m with them on this one. A program doesn’t give up a home game unless they think they have a darn good reason.
And I’m getting weary of Dabo’s “poor lil ol’ Clemson” act. FSU didn’t attack the credibility of his program. They did that themselves by cramming a symptomatic player with an unknown test result into a plane full of teammates.
Either way this is a win for Clemson and Dabo. He’s a genius at working the us vs the world mentality.
This is true. What we have here is essentially politics. One side claiming these are the facts and the other side claiming those AREN’T the facts. FSU claims a Clempson player tested positive before the game, thus the cancellation. Dabo is in front of the mic claiming they had ZERO positive cases in Tallahassee.
Someone isn’t telling the truth and we likely can never get down to who is being dishonest.
It is true though that Dabo will win the public opinion war with this one. What FSU lacks these days is the Bobby Bowden type of character. The one who could lie and cheat and put 7 murderers on his player roster like he did in 1993, and just say “awwww shucks” and get away with it while everyone chuckles and just says, “oh bobby, you good ol’ boy.”
Gromit, under BB FSU changed college football telecast in the early 90’s. Before, networks would take cameras on the sidelines after a TD or big play to capture a team’s excitement. After FSU’s display of vulgar obscene language and crotch grabbing this never happened again.
FSU is a second rate piece of warthog dung on the side of the road in Michigan.
Dabo is such a clown!
Dabo should have move on concerning this. He engaged in a war-of-words with another head coach=a losing proposition in this scenario. Being a lifetime whiner…he continues with his “poor us” routine. He needed a big win as Clemson is not as talented on defense as in previous years…barely beat Boston College & lost to Notre Dame. If they play in the Always Cushy Conference title game…Go Fighting Irish !
FSU should have made the announcement before Clem spent the effort, time , and money to fly the whole team out there. I dont blame him one bit for being angry. If teams test daily there was no excuse for this to happen the way it did.
FSU did not know about it until the game day…as Clemson does not test daily. Clemson does not worry about a trivial thing called money anymore.
Dabo would have played him, as there are rules and there are Dabo-rules.
Clemson never cares about peoples safety the night of the 1000 year flood they played note dame at night and they were told the roads going into Clemson may not be there on the way out. The hurricane when they were the only school in 3 states to play that day.
Deshaun Watson tore his ACL playing Georgia Tech in 2014. Two weeks later he still played the South Carolina game because they were so desperate to break the 5 game streak.
Dumbo loses that game he gets fired.