I said, “Let me tell you what I’m looking for in a fuckin’ tree. I’m looking for a tree that you can tell is alive even if you don’t know shit about trees.”
-Ron White

With the uninspired and uninspiring Clemson baseball season at a recent end, my mind has wandered to the subject of coaching expectations (and today’s Block-C post reminds me of the subject). It occurs to me that our expectations are frequently far too-short sighted. They’re adjusted and readjusted after every game (after every win we expect great things, and after every loss we know that the future is doomed). We even re-adjust expectations season after season. However we rarely write down, in advance, just what it is we expect over, say, the next three years. This lack of clarity, I think, leads to the Tommy Bowden situation where his retention could constantly be justified despite the fact that he really wasn’t accomplishing things that he should have been. All this leads me to ask: for Dabo to keep his job at the end of his 3rd season, what must he accomplish? Perhaps the best follow up question is, are Clemson fans willing to create and stick to such a list of accomplishments?

Now that we’re beyond the championshipless years of the Tommy Bowden era, I feel we’re definitely looking for more than just being an above average football team. Using that as something of a guide, I have only two requirements for Dabo.
1.) Make it to at least two bowl games
2.) Make it to at least one ACC championship game
If the team doesn’t do those two things, then I’ll be ready to move on.

Posted on Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 8:25 am by Broken Gnome

Filed under Clemson, Coaching, Football.

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