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Jesus man, a week ago we all thought we were getting New Mexicos AD. The fact that RAD has been around a successful, championship football program, with a winning pedigree, is good enough for me. The last guy conducted a nationwide head coaching search in 3 hours with 1 phone call.

With the financial commitment the university is making, and a new head coach, I, as a fan, expect us to eventually represent the ACC in the CFB playoffs yearly, as Clemson did. It nice have an AD who's experienced this level of success before.
 
SFbayCane said:
Im kind of curious about this myself. What are this guy's bonefides?

The only thing I know about him is that he did his master's work at UM.
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So a quick look on wiki, he’s made a few hires at Clemson. The women’s basketball coach made a tourney appearance which they haven’t done much. Men’s baseball won the ACC made the tournament pretty much every year. This one is a bit impressive to me, in the second year of them ever having softball they won the conference. Overall it’s not terrible given the athletic stature of the school.

Football, Men’s basketball and both soccer teams have had kept the same coaches since before he started there.

GT he hired Paul Johnson, which I don’t think was a terrible move for the school. The other hires were ok, except basketball, but again the school isn’t an athletic juggernaut so not sure how much success you can reasonably expect.
 
kryptonite said:
And he oversaw 4 NC appearances and 2 wins. According to what I read, he hired dabo as well.

Bottom line: we just took an AD from a very successful football program and a (hopefully soon) rival. I honestly don’t get what there could be to complain about.
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No, Dabo was there already. He wasn't transformational like Jurich, but he helped take Clemson to the next level and they won two championships on his watch. He's a steady hand who knows what a championship program at a smaller budget school looks like. The unspoken truth is Mario is a lot more like Dabo than Saban. Most people don't remember when "Clemson-ing" was a thing. Dabo constantly lost games he shouldn't until he finally got his staff dialed in and was able to land elite QBs. The great thing for Mario is he has his QB. Now he needs to hit homeruns with OC and DC.
 
Fair question. Rad joined Clemson in 2012.

Two years old but relevant report.

"Clemson told Bloomberg that its athletic budget has gone from $74.7 million in 2014 to $131.9 million in 2019."

Read more: https://www.tigernet.com/clemson-fo...offset-revenue-reductions-35364#ixzz7E3SZvkNP

Recruiting Rankings from 2010 (for some pre 2012 context)
201019thRivals.comDabo Swinney
20118thRivals.comDabo Swinney
201214thRivals.comDabo Swinney
201314thRivals.comDabo Swinney
201413thRivals.comDabo Swinney
20154thRivals.comDabo Swinney
20166thRivals.comDabo Swinney
201722ndRivals.comDabo Swinney
20188thRivals.comDabo Swinney
20199thRivals.comDabo Swinney
20202ndRivals.comDabo Swinney
20217thRivals.comDabo Swinney

Clemson Recruiting Budget (2019)
"In the 2009-10 academic year, which included Swinney's first full season as head coach, Clemson spent $292,595 on recruiting. Last year, Clemson spent $2.9 million."

Their record in regular season and bowls:
1638597240286.webp

(Source: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/clemson/index.html)

Money talks. Rad hasn't accomplished anything for Miami yet. But I will take him over BJ any day.
 
TimeBum said:
No, Dabo was there already. He wasn't transformational like Jurich, but he helped take Clemson to the next level and they won two championships on his watch. He's a steady hand who knows what a championship program at a smaller budget school looks like. The unspoken truth is Mario is a lot more like Dabo than Saban. Most people don't remember when "Clemson-ing" was a thing. Dabo constantly lost games he shouldn't until he finally got his staff dialed in and was able to land elite QBs. The great thing for Mario is he has his QB. Now he needs to hit homeruns with OC and DC.
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He supported Dabo well. If the goal was to get an AD who asks and isn’t afraid they got the guy for the job. Dabo didn’t lose assistants. Say whatever you want about career guys or whatever, they did whatever it took to keep the staff.
 
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aelmiami said:
So a quick look on wiki, he’s made a few hires at Clemson. The women’s basketball coach made a tourney appearance which they haven’t done much. Men’s baseball won the ACC made the tournament pretty much every year. This one is a bit impressive to me, in the second year of them ever having softball they won the conference. Overall it’s not terrible given the athletic stature of the school.

Football, Men’s basketball and both soccer teams have had kept the same coaches since before he started there.

GT he hired Paul Johnson, which I don’t think was a terrible move for the school. The other hires were ok, except basketball, but again the school isn’t an athletic juggernaut so not sure how much success you can reasonably expect.
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Good info. Thanks.

To me, hiring Paul Johnson is a massively successful hire. I was a HUGE Paul Johnson fan. He won two 1AA National titles, won big at Navy and won the ACC at Ga Tech, and took Ga Tech to the ACC title games 3 or 4 times during his tenure.
 
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quite possibly agreed to bring Zo on board to groom and run football operations.
 
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