We'll see how it plays out.
Clemson landed on Dabo when promoting him from Tommy Bowden's failed regime—a no experience guy who was a wide receivers / tight ends coach at Bama for five years in the nineties, before taking over wide outs at Clemson for six years—yet they made him head coach.
Tony Elliott and Jeff Scott were nobodies who were made co-offensive coordinators; Elliott a receivers coach at South Carolina State and Furman before coaching running backs at Clemson. He was 36 years old and completely inexperienced when he was promoted.
Scott coached at a high school for one year, wide outs at Presbyterian for a year and then seven years coaching wide outs at Clemson before he was promoted at 35 years old (and has since taken the head coaching gig at South Florida.)
My issue with Manny is that the move itself is bush league. He's the CEO of this program. To try and keep a foot in both worlds where he thinks no one else can do the job the way he did it, so he wants to be the boss and call plays, as well. Bush league move good leaders don't do. You hire someone competent, you toss them the keys, go hands off and trust them to do the job.
Demoting Baker's responsibilities, hiring all these other defensive coaches himself (instead of letting a capable DC bring in his guy) .... it reeks of control and if it doesn't work, this will be the second nail in his coffin (the first being the FIU loss and three-game losing streak in 2019.)
