Deems May calls out Dabo and Napier
by DrB on Oct 13, 2010 6:39 PM EDT
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PrintDeems May, former UNC player, and former player for the Chargers and Seahawks had a few words for this staff's performance against the Tarholes.
As much as I want to give all the credit to our players, I must say the failure of Clemson's offensive coordinator to identify our weaknesses played a big part in our success. Napier chose to stay in the no-huddle spread offense and let Kyle Parker continue to throw the ball. He mistakenly thought he could exploit our young corners. He was wrong.
He also failed to recognize our leader tackler -- Quan Sturdivant -- was in street clothes and his replacement Zach Brown was the fastest guy on the team and covered so much ground in the quick passing game as if he didn't watch the tape of the ECU game. He also didn’t notice that in the second half Jordan Nix was out and we were down to four defensive linemen. An experienced coordinator would've gone to two tight ends and pounded the ACC's leading rusher at us constantly. The reason I'm saying this is not to take away from our performance, but I want our fans to see the contrast. There are great recruiters out there and there are great game day coaches out there. There are very few that do both. Not only can our coaches recruit talent, but they can coach them, too. We have that in our coaching staff; we must keep this in tact. I will not -- and hope that all the readers don't want to -- go back to that feeling of four years ago."
And I'm hearing more rumblings that Dabo is interjecting more and more into the playcalls again.....
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I'm not surprised someone else can see how poorly coached we are.
The problem is the meddling leads to absolutely no offensive identity.
I’d prefer that Napier call the plays because Ellington is awesome and would excel in the power I running game Napier would implement. Dabo’s offensive philosophy does not fit in well with this team because we lack big play receivers.
Respect to Deems May for being honest
Despite the high level of accuracy, he’s probably catching some flak for that comment. As we’ve often seen, some fans do not want to hear negatives after a win.
Dabo obviously learned NOTHING from last year, if the speculation that he’s meddling in play calling is true. Let me address Dabo here personally:
Dabo: You are one lucky man. Somehow you convinced C.J.Spiller to come to Clemson, when he had offers from virtually every school that mattered. It was quite a coup, and you deserve credit for that. But I’m not so sure you deserve all the credit you’ve gotten. Nick Saban realized you must be one helluva recruiter and offered you a job. You parlayed that job offer into a raise AND the title of Asst.Head Coach. After 10 years of failure, and a fanbase that was restless to say the least, finally ended Tommy Bowden’s tenure here, you were in the position to be interim head coach. Not a lot changed, but you did beat the Usuck Chickens that year…an emotional win that catapulted you into being HFC at Clemson University. You are one luck, opportunistic joker you….You fancy yourself a football expert but you are not. You’re a fantastic cheerleader and, as a good real estate salesman would be, a fantastic recruiter. But you are NOT an X’s and O’s guy…you’re not even a good gameday coach. Freak circumstances has given you the position you find yourself in…Do us all a favor and STOP FUCKING IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK? Your enthusiasm is fine, but at times I want Danny Ford to step up and BITCHSLAP you cause you oversell it just a bit….You are an improvement over TB, but buddy I’m tellin’ ya…that ain’t sayin’ much. Sometimes optimism is a great thing….sometimes optimism mixed with healthy dose of reality is the better solution. Sometimes it’s better to “poor talk”. If you don’t know what that means, go down to the farm and ask Danny. Dabo, you’re a ‘bama guy….and that’s fine…But buddy, I’m a CLEMSON guy and you’re fucking up my thing….Lose the smiles, develop a scowl….Let your OC call the damn plays….Be very fucking grateful for the position you fell into, not so much the position you deserved….and try and act like you got some smarts. OK??
by veryveryproud on Oct 13, 2010 9:24 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Congratulations to Deem May for stating the obvious.
Even the ESPN announcers were incredulous. About a half dozen times they said why the heck isn’t Clemson running Ellington? Clemson’s coaches (not the players) got beat by UNC, Miami, & Auburn.
From Ard
I asked Billy face to face Tuesday, “Billy … tons of people are emailing me this week and their feeling is that Saturday’s game plan and call selection had Dabo’s imprint all over it. Did you call 100-percent of the plays Saturday?” He smiled and simply told me they were moving forward as a staff to prepare for Maryland. I got no direct answer to the question I asked. I didn’t expect to. But I still asked.
Billy answered by not answering. If he had called all the plays, he would have said so.
The offensive play-calling and personnel decisions are absolutely mind numbing.
It took the coaches 4 games and 2 losses to figure out that Hopkins & McNeal should start over Ashe & Dye? I thought that was obvious after Presby, and I didn’t even get to watch them practice over the summer.
It took the coaches 5 games and 3 losses to (hopefully) figure out that Ellington deserves more carries than Harper? I knew that last year. And it was even more obvious this year. I mean both last year and this year, Ellington has more yards per carry than Spiller did in his senior year. WTF? Even the ESPN announcers were repeatedly saying why the fuck aren’t they running Ellington?
Putting a cast-wristed McDaniel on punt returns? Putting Jamie Harper on kick returns? Lateralling to Harper on a kick return as though he’s an elusive speedster?
Having Harper throw a halfback pass against UNC? Again, even the ESPN announcers were like, why the trick plays when you could just ram it down their throats with Ellington?
I mean WTF are the coaches thinking? I just don’t get it. It’s absolutely mind boggling.
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