[Cactus Jack]

Dabo was recently on ESPN airing more grievances with the transfer portal.

Not to say that there isn't some legitimacy to what he's saying-- there are some shenanigans that need reigned in and the transfer windows need modified. I don't know that the majority of coaches and fans aren't in agreement with plenty of his points.

I can't say that I currently see the need for a cap on values; if nothing else, it just seems like something that will be circumvented one way or another. That aside, all results and statistics to date seem to show that Swinney is behind the times on both NIL and the portal. 

He's one of the least active coaches in the portal and the results just haven't been there. I get that there's pressure from his boosters, alumni, and fans to embrace, or at least take a more active role there, but it seems that there's some validity to their points.

Not that we should be ready to pronounce him dead (he made the CFP last season) but with the college football landscape shifting in such a way that schools like Clemson need to make some adjustments, is Dabo screaming into the void or does it even matter if he isn't willing to adapt to the times and make changes? 

Personally, I see a shift where conferences are consolidating power and there seem to be a number of teams ahead of Clemson when it comes to candidates for expansion (North Carolina, Florida State, Miami, and Virginia). That, along with others who offer something similar (NC State [market], Virginia Tech [market & some tradition], Georgia Tech [market, academics, & some tradition], SMU [academics, market & more money], and Duke [academics, market & more money]), it seems like Dabo is fighting a losing battle unless his end-game is to see Clemson become a Boise State-type mid-major.