Clemson's changes mark a new era for Dabo, Tigers
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The winds of change are sweeping across Clemson, South Carolina, as Dabo Swinney and the Tigers are about to pen a new chapter in the program's history. Andy and Grace Raynor discuss the departure of Brent Venables, Tony Elliott, and Dan Radakovich from Clemson and what that portends for Dabo and company. Grace imparts her thoughts on how Venables will impact Oklahoma and Elliott on Virginia. Will Radaovich build Miami in the image of Clemson, and how do we perceive Dabo's dynamic with whomever assumes Clemson's AD vacancy? Plus, a look ahead to Clemson's offseason.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.3 | We're starting into the off season. |
| 0:13.9 | This is a weird, weird feeling. |
| 0:15.5 | But there's a lot to talk about. |
| 0:17.6 | And I wanted to kind of do a focused episode here on one topic to start with |
| 0:23.0 | because there's a school that is going through some fascinating changes right now and it's a |
| 0:27.4 | place where not much has changed in a long, long time. And now it feels like everything's |
| 0:32.7 | changing at once. And speaking of course of Clemson, one of the best programs in the country |
| 0:37.3 | over the last 10 years. And a lot of that, of Clemson, one of the best programs in the country over the last 10 years. |
| 0:39.3 | And a lot of that has been because of continuity. |
| 0:42.2 | But that continuity took a little bit of a hit, well, a lot of a hit. |
| 0:48.0 | And we got Grace Rainer, our Clemson beat writer at the Athletic, to talk about the new Clemson. |
| 0:53.1 | Because gone is Brent Venables |
| 0:55.3 | defensive coordinator who is now the Oklahoma head coach gone is Tony Elliott |
| 0:59.1 | offensive coordinator who is now the Virginia head coach gone is athletic director |
| 1:02.9 | Dan Radicovic does dad is dabbo just by himself there just saying hey guys let's let's get |
| 1:09.5 | ready for the cheese at bowl basically I mean I've been i will say i have been sent the uh fresh prince of belair |
| 1:16.7 | meme like many times with um with dab with davo's face photoshopped onto it this week um yeah |
| 1:25.0 | i mean this is kind of unprecedented in a way for Davo. I mean, they've just, |
| 1:30.0 | they've, they've only lost one coordinator since 2015. And that was Jeff Scott. And he, |
| 1:34.1 | he, he was not the primary. He was a co-coordinator. Yeah. He wasn't calling the plays. So, |
| 1:38.3 | yeah, this is, uh, after enjoying six years of, I think, unprecedented continuity, they are, it's just totally shaking up for |
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