Coach Dabo Swinney Essay

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Dabo Swinney, one of the greatest coaches in the NCAA League. Dabo played for Alabama back in 1989 and won a National Championship when he was at Alabama, along with two South Eastern Conference Championships. Nick Saban, also one of the best coaches in the league especially when you look at his stats and what he has accomplished in the past few years. Although, Dabo is not too far behind him on what he has been able to accomplish. Dabo, defeating 6 coaches in one year that had all one National Championships before.
Nick Saban coaches for Alabama and has been Alabama's coach for eleven years now. He graduated from Kent State in Ohio. Saban has one of the most impressing resumes in college football, coaching and winning …show more content…

Coach Saban has received thirteen coaches' awards in the past twenty years. Coach Saban though lost his first title game of all time in 2016 thought. To none other than, Coach Dabo Swinney. Saban has been at Alabama since 2007 and has led Alabama to five National titles. Dabo Swinney has been the head coach of football at Clemson University since December 1, 2010. Saban, unlike Swinney had a lot more coaching experience at coaching than Swinney had. Swinney got put in charge in 2008 as Clemson's interim football head coach. This was the first time he held a head coaching position. Whereas Saban had been head coach of five different teams, one being a professional football …show more content…

Although, when compared to Dabo Swinney it is impressive to see what Swinney has accomplished in less time and with the first football team he has ever been head coach of. Swinney as head coach of the Clemson Tigers has had three College Football Playoff appearances in the past three years. In the past five years he has led the Tigers to six straight top twenty-five finishes. In the past three years Dabo's team has finished in the top four of the final college football rankings. Likewise, so has Saban, but Saban has been in the business longer and it has taken him longer to achieve what Dabo has in such little time. Dabo has been able to clinch one National Title as head coach at Clemson University and it only took him nine years to do so. He also, has led the Clemson Tigers to four Atlantic Coast Conference titles, 2011, 2015, 2016, and 2018. He also, has clinched the Atlantic Coast Conference Division title six times, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, and the most recent