The Seat Under Dabo Swinney Needs to Heat Up and a Change is Near

The Clemson Tigers experienced one of the worst losses of their season and of Dabo Swinney's career on Saturday afternoon. They welcomed the 2-7 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets into Death Valley and were beaten very soundly by the Yellow Jackets. 

Clemson had come into the game today after two straight victories, and they were feeling good about the team and about the opportunity to keep improving and finish out the season strong.

Well, all of that momentum was halted on Saturday. Georgia Tech came in, scored first, turned the water off on the Clemson offense, and suffocated them all game long.

The worst part about it all was the state that Georgia Tech was in. They had just fired five of their assistants this week and have literally nothing to play for for the remainder of the season. Vibes could not have been worse for the Yellow Jackets, but you couldn't tell that by the way the two teams played on Saturday.

For Clemson, they now have a 6-4 record, and the future of the program looks as bleak as today's game did. 

Unfortunately, it is time for the conversation surrounding head coach Dabo Swinney to start heating up because the program that he built is no longer the program that is here. It has been this way for the last couple of seasons.

In their last 11 games against power conference opponents, the Tigers are 2-9. This isn't ranked conference opponents, it is just power conference opponents, period.

Saturday was the 250th game of Swinney's career, and it was likely the rock-bottom moment of his career. Swinney's inability to adjust to the current era of college football has been both well documented and his downfall as a coach.

One of the main reasons that Clemson's performance fell off today was because of Tait Reynold's knee injury early in the football game. He scrambled out of the pocket and when he was running his knee locked up and he left the football game. 

Reynold's injury does not appear to be a long-term one, which is positive, but it doesn't matter much.

It's unfortunately time for a change to be made. Everything runs its course, and it has run its course in Clemson. Swinney was one of the best coaches in the 2010s era, but as the saying goes, adapt or die. 

Swinney never adapted and it is time for his tenure to die.

Clemson has some decisions to make for the future of their program.