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That is excellent news

Many tears just welled up in Tater fans' eyes as well, but for different reasons. This portion of the article says it all when a CU writer penned it. It tries to make things sound so solid, but as has been discussed many, many times, competing for an ACC title ain't what they try to portray it as, especially if all that's left behind when FSU leaves are the Dukes, Weak Forest's, etc. of college football. Let 'em keep telling themselves all this though. I'm loving it.

Swinney won the Bobby Dodd Award as the National Coach of the Year for 2011, the first Clemson football coach to be named a national coach of the year since Danny Ford in 1981. Swinney led Clemson to its first ACC Championship in 20 years with a 38-10 victory over third ranked Virginia Tech in the league title game in Charlotte in early December. The win sent Clemson to the Discover Orange Bowl, the school’s first BCS Bowl appearance and first Orange Bowl appearance in 30 years.

Over the course of the season, Clemson won four games over top 20 teams, a record for one season, including three victories over top 11 teams, tied for the most in school history. Clemson finished with a 10-4 record and the 10 wins were the most for the program since 1990.

In three years he has taken Clemson to two Atlantic Division titles, the first two for the program since the ACC went to a division format in 2005. The Tigers have also finished in the top 25 twice without having been ranked in the preseason.

“Coach Swinney has agreed to a significant contract extension,” said Phillips, who has been Clemson’s Athletic Director since the summer of 2002. “We feel very good about the direction of our football program. In a short period of time, Coach Swinney has taken us to two Atlantic Division titles, had two top 10 recruiting classes, two top 25 seasons, and won an ACC Championship in a season when the league was strong enough to have two teams elected for BCS Bowls for the first time.

Actually - much of that does sound impressive. Should make us all feel even better about kicking their arse every year. Problem isn't really Dabo's overall results, which compared to the past 20 years for Clemson have been pretty good. It's just that he's so unstable and is not a leader - which becomes painfully obvious any time his team gets in a tough spot - and they fold like a cheap tent and beg for mercy. Long live Dabo!

Wow......great news for Gamecock fans. I did not know he won National coach of the year ! That makes the 3 peat by us and the rout by WVU even sweeter. That had to be embarrassing for whomever selects the National coach of the year, LMAO

What's the buyout?

they mentioned "escalators" in his contract, they go both up and down.

TDP, is one big sucker.