Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney has been named one of the most hated in college football. <\/p>\n
RotoWire ranked the 20 Most Hated Coaches in College Football, with Swinney coming in at No. 3 on the list. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s won big and then sermonizes about how he did it,\u201d RotoWire wrote. \u201cThe anti-transfer-portal, anti-NIL stances land as preachy in a sport that has moved on without him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot every villain is loud. Dabo Swinney and Kirby Smart (No. 6 in the rankings) draw their share of national contempt simply by dominating \u2014 and, in Swinney\u2019s case, by lecturing the sport about how he does it. Sustained excellence is one of the surest ways to make the rest of the country want to see you lose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Only LSU\u2019s Lane Kiffin and Colorado\u2019s Deion Sanders ranked higher. Southern Cal\u2019s Lincoln Riley and Ohio State\u2019s Ryan Day round out the top five. <\/p>\n
From the RotoWire website:<\/p>\n
To build this ranking, (we) weighted two inputs equally:\u00a050% social fan-sentiment analysis\u00a0across Reddit, X and Facebook, and\u00a050% a 500-person fan survey. The result measures national feeling, not how a coach is viewed by his own fan base \u2014 where several names on this list rank among the most beloved in the country.<\/p>\n
Swinney has always been a lightning rod for negative commentary, due to some of his strong, unfiltered opinions. However, he\u2019s also known as one of the most genuine people in the sport, and almost anyone who has spent some time around him can attest to that fact. <\/p>\n
Swinney, who is the all-time winningest head coach at Clemson, is one of just two active head coaches to win two or more national titles, with Smart being the other one. Clemson has also won nine ACC Championships during Swinney\u2019s tenure, and he\u2019s led the Tigers to seven appearances in the College Football Playoff. <\/p>\n
Swinney will also get to face off with the coach at the top of the list when the Tigers open the season against Kiffin and his LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge on September 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney has been named one of the most hated in college football. RotoWire ranked…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":930256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[19416,1318,19419,7130,1317,1315,1316,19417,62,19418,67,132,68,15613],"class_list":["post-930255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-clemson-insider-podcast","tag-football","tag-gymnastics","tag-hero","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-noonan","tag-sports","tag-track-and-field","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wednesday"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}