Developing on this week’s Tiger Calls: Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney berates Tyler from Spartanburg, telling the caller he’s a part of the issue, whereas saying he (Dabo) takes “100% accountability” for his staff’s 4-4 report. Nonetheless, we’re not right here to nitpick your entire 5-minute rant, as a result of accountability and logic exit the window if you’re within the throes of an excellent, emotional tangent.

Listed below are some highlights for these of you who don’t need to put your earbuds in (shout out Yahoo Sports activities for the transcription).

“Hey Tyler, I’ve listened to sufficient of you, Tyler. You possibly can have all of your opinions that you really want. I don’t understand how outdated you might be, don’t actually care. However let me inform you one thing. We received 11 video games final yr.

“And also you’re a part of the issue, to be sincere with you. As a result of that’s a part of the issue. It’s individuals such as you — the appreciation, the expectation is bigger than the appreciation. And that’s the issue.

“We’ve received 12 10-plus-win seasons in a row. That’s occurred 3 times in 150 years. So if you happen to wanna know why. Clemson ain’t sniffed a nationwide championship for 35 years. We’ve received two in seven years. And there’s solely two different groups that may say that: Georgia and Alabama. OK?”

Swinney makes a superb level concerning the appreciation-expectation side, as a result of if you’re within the operating for nationwide titles, each week is an audition for the playoff. The Tigers received 11 video games a yr in the past, so there was no motive for the coach to heed the warning indicators of attainable regression.

That’s additionally why Swinney would say issues like this:

“I’ve been part of failure many occasions, however there ain’t one factor in my life that I’ve ever failed at, Ty-ler. By no means. Alright? Ever.”

He went on to listing all of the feats he set his thoughts to, and subsequently completed. Wished to get an schooling, acquired two levels. Wished to play at Alabama, earned a scholarship. Wished to be a head coach, did that, too. Wished to begin a household, is now married with three kids.

Thank god he stopped himself wanting, “I wished to marry an 8, ended up with a 9.5, Ty-ler.”

Swinney ended the diatribe with an excellent quasi-meltdown.

“I’m not gonna sit right here and allow you to name in — I don’t care how a lot cash I make. You ain’t gonna speak to me like I’m 12 years outdated. Gotta be freaking kidding me.”

The Clemson head man has come underneath fired just lately for his hesitancy to embrace the switch portal, sticking along with his conventional strategy. Not solely did Dabo’s teaching friends cave to the stress, however fellow ACC rivals did, as effectively.

Florida State — a staff within the prime 5, and one Clemson would’ve overwhelmed if it had a greater Plan B at kicker than a man enrolled in on-line programs — seems to have usurped the Tigers’ place atop the convention. And no person at Clemson, at the very least not Swinney, or the followers, appears to be dealing with it very effectively.

I simply need to thank Tiger Calls, Tyler from Spartanburg, and Dabo Swinney for giving the plenty that second of vulnerability, and comedy.