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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 868527" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>The best advice ever for me: know the difference in a guy with 10 years experience and the guy who has one year of experience repeated 10 times. Knowing that will make coming to work fun again.</p><p></p><p>Good get. Interesting and unexpected. Dabo whose coaching line goes directly to the Bear. also is one of only two in the country who won NCs as both coach and player -- the second, or first, was Bud Wilkinson at Nebraska and Oklahoma. Swinney, often dismissed as a "CEO" type, is still very close to Stallings, owes him his career-- otherwise he would have wound up as a hospital administrator -- and thus it is said that the only way he would coach Alabama would be because Stallings, whose grandson was a walk-on backup tight end for Clemson a few years back, personally intervened to ask him. Nobody thinks Stallings would do that.</p><p></p><p>Maybe apropos to the issue, Stallings in an interview with Swinney at Clemson -- the Stallings family owns a house on the lake there -- said Dabo "was not a very good player". Dabo looked on and made the best of it before Stallings finished it off: But "Dabo wanted it; he wanted to be a good player, and want is the most important thing."</p><p></p><p>Stallings also laid out his coaching and "management" philosophy. When hiring coaches he said he wanted three things: "good people". If he was going to spend that much time with somebody, he had to like them. they had to know the game, and they had to be good communicators. Shoot, that is good management in a nutshell.</p><p></p><p>I will try to find the segment in question because the look on Dabo's face when Stallings flat out said he was not a very good football player is priceless. The interview took place in Dabo's offce, surrounded by reminders of all his coaching achievements. Want, indeed. (p.s. in 2008, it seemed ordained that Clemson had to beat South Carolina to assure Swinney the permanent HC job. Stallings flew in from Texas to give him a boost. Something else Dabo never forgot.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 868527, member: 2175"] The best advice ever for me: know the difference in a guy with 10 years experience and the guy who has one year of experience repeated 10 times. Knowing that will make coming to work fun again. Good get. Interesting and unexpected. Dabo whose coaching line goes directly to the Bear. also is one of only two in the country who won NCs as both coach and player -- the second, or first, was Bud Wilkinson at Nebraska and Oklahoma. Swinney, often dismissed as a "CEO" type, is still very close to Stallings, owes him his career-- otherwise he would have wound up as a hospital administrator -- and thus it is said that the only way he would coach Alabama would be because Stallings, whose grandson was a walk-on backup tight end for Clemson a few years back, personally intervened to ask him. Nobody thinks Stallings would do that. Maybe apropos to the issue, Stallings in an interview with Swinney at Clemson -- the Stallings family owns a house on the lake there -- said Dabo "was not a very good player". Dabo looked on and made the best of it before Stallings finished it off: But "Dabo wanted it; he wanted to be a good player, and want is the most important thing." Stallings also laid out his coaching and "management" philosophy. When hiring coaches he said he wanted three things: "good people". If he was going to spend that much time with somebody, he had to like them. they had to know the game, and they had to be good communicators. Shoot, that is good management in a nutshell. I will try to find the segment in question because the look on Dabo's face when Stallings flat out said he was not a very good football player is priceless. The interview took place in Dabo's offce, surrounded by reminders of all his coaching achievements. Want, indeed. (p.s. in 2008, it seemed ordained that Clemson had to beat South Carolina to assure Swinney the permanent HC job. Stallings flew in from Texas to give him a boost. Something else Dabo never forgot.) [/QUOTE]
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