Or at least mildly upsetting. I’m not sure that Swinney is playing the right game.

“I’m not a guy to panic,” he said. “I don’t see any reason to panic. The biggest thing is to stay together and keep this team together. If there’s anything I’ve learned from my life, it’s that nothing comes easy.

“Keep getting up, believing in yourself, believe in your faith and you’re going to be successful. Keep swinging the axe and the tree will fall.”

That’s fine advice for a lot of things. It’s terrible advice for competitive sports. In sports there is not one “tree”, there are many. And for each “tree” there are a limited number of swings. In that regard, it’s actually a lot like at-bats in baseball. But we all know that in baseball no one gives a flying f*ck if you hit the ball eventually, they’re interested in how often you hit it and how well you do it — that is unless you’re playing T-ball. We can only pray and “have faith” that he is not using a T-ball mentality to lead this football team.

Posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 7:14 am by Broken Gnome

Filed under Clemson, Coaching, Football.

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