FSU Football: Dabo Swinney shows no class during blowout win

FSU Football was in for a long day when it came to yesterday’s loss to rival Clemson, but at least we don’t have a head coach who showed his true colors.

Within the first three minutes on Saturday, it was clear that FSU football was going to be in for quite that type of day against the defending champs of college football – and the Clemson Tigers showed it when they continued to score on their way to a 45-14 victory that showed why they are likely going to win a fifth straight conference crown.

The game showed a lot about how far the Seminoles need to go to get back to competing for championships – while also showing the negative side of the sport in the way that the head coach for the Tigers, Dabo Swinney, acted on the sideline before before the half and at the end of the game.

Swinney, who somehow gets labeled by those “good ole boys” that have followed the sport for decades as what’s “right” about the game because of his deep religious feelings and stock piling championships, as draw ire for his temper tantrum at the end of the first half with Clemson leading FSU football 28-0.

Yes, that’s a grown man scolding his kicker – who, granted, was just five for eight on kicks this season – for missing a field goal that would put the Tigers UP BY 31 POINTS AT THE HALF! Now, I’ve played football as much as many people and got chewed out plenty of times by my coaches so I understand what it means to be taught lessons.

That’s not teaching a lesson – that’s throwing a fit because something didn’t go the way you were entitled into thinking it should. That’s the true Dabo Swinney that people haven’t been talking about for years.

It’s the Dabo Swinney that, in 2017 being up by 10 points with less than a minute to go in the game, goes for another touchdown against FSU football and uses the excuse of needing to run up the score because of the impending College Football Playoff and their selection committee.

It’s the same Dabo Swinney who appeared to be upset when the Tigers couldn’t get off a final play this weekend against the Seminoles and score another touchdown – because a 38 point victory is going to look much better than a 31 point win, right?

Swinney is a product of an era of college football that is embarrassing for the sport – the same era that thinks it’s okay to bash players because their hair is in dreadlocks like they did at Penn State. It’s an era that is driving kids away from the game at the same amount as any worries about safety.

Swinney is the type of coach who is what is wrong with the game – but as long as he wins championships and continues to be a “good religious man”, it’s okay in the eyes of those both in orange and purple as well as those who are still living in the era of guys like Bear Bryant, Shug Jordan and even our own beloved Bobby Bowden.