College Football World Responds To Dabo Swinney’s Florida State Comments
College Football World Responds To Dabo Swinney’s Florida State Comments
Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney raised eyebrows this weekend when he took an unprompted shot at Florida State.
A showdown between Clemson and Florida State was cancelled this past Saturday after the latter program expressed discomfort with the fact that someone who had tested positive for COVID had traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, with Clemson.
On Sunday, Swinney came out guns blazing and accused Florida State of ducking his team.
“This game was not canceled because of COVID,” he said.
“To me, the Florida State administration forfeited the game. If they wanna play Clemson, in my opinion, they need to come to Clemson, or they need to pay for all expenses. Other than that, there’s no reason for us to play them. We were there. We were ready. And we met the standards.”
According to Swinney, the trip cost Clemson more than $300,000.
Needless to say, the college football community had some strong reactions to Swinney’s sentiments.
Dabo has been tone deaf on various topics last few years.
A lot of talk in this world about “personal responsibility “ but he takes none for sending a player w/ symptoms on a team plane. Then gets upset when another program deems it’s unsafe to play when player tests positive. https://t.co/LPO60r6CDn
— Brendan Sonnone (@BSonnone) November 22, 2020
Dabo is the worst person in sports pic.twitter.com/9pR9TCqKEa
— Tyler Conway (@jtylerconway) November 22, 2020
Paulina Gretzky has taken Masters victory celebrations to a new level. https://t.co/K1yliTiGao
— Game 7 (@game7__) November 22, 2020
Dabo out here blaming FSU for not doing his job correctly. Shocking
— Wayne McGahee III (@WayneMcGaheeIII) November 22, 2020
Clemson had 26+ players test positive at once in the summer. Their QB missed the previous 2 games with covid. A player tested positive FRIDAY after practicing with the team all week while he was showing symptoms. FSU hasnt had a positive test since Sept 18th. Dabo should shut up https://t.co/9b8M0Bjusn
— Coach Quan Edwards (@QuanDBtalk) November 22, 2020
dabo continues to be a disgrace but y’all still don’t wanna believe that bc he gives y’all aww shucks sound bites and the occasional bible quote — it’s grifter 101 https://t.co/AW3tpp9uR7
— mike taddow (@taddmike) November 22, 2020
Gordon Hayward’s wife has never been one to bite her tongue. https://t.co/4yVNe8pMbU
— Game 7 (@game7__) November 21, 2020
Dabo thinks FSU is gonna refund Clemson for traveling AND come to Clemson to play in December when he brought patient zero to Tally.. pic.twitter.com/g7aDlNEY1t
— Bryan Deeds (@bryanDeeds) November 22, 2020
Somebody needs to tell Dabo to just calm down and focus on winning all the rest of his games so he can take a trip to meet President Biden in the spring. https://t.co/rKkmOstPjA
— Matt Scalici (@MattScalici) November 22, 2020
man dabo went full “I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE FSU MANAGER ABOUT THE DREADFUL CUSTOMER SERVICE”
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) November 22, 2020
You love to see it. https://t.co/rfGuc5GNwi
— Game 7 (@game7__) November 21, 2020
All that being said, Swinney has never been one to care about the public’s opinion of him, and it’s doubtful he is going to start now.
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