I’ve been telling you guys for four years that Dabo Swinney was a piece of work but you wouldn’t listen to me. The old timers would always say, “When a person tells you who they are the first time. Listen to them.”
Dabo told America in 2016 loud and clear who he was when Colin Kaepernick first took a knee to protest police brutality, racial and social injustice. His initial response was “Some of these people need to move to another country. ”
He went on to say, Two wrongs don’t make a right.” and “Kaepernick kneeling only creates more division.”
We found out last week about how in 2017 one of his assistant coaches, Danny Pearman, used the N-word while talking to former tight end D.J. Greenlee, a black player at practice and was never reprimanded.
It was made public when former wide receiver, Kanyon Tuttle, posted it on social media.
Greenlee told The State newspaper, “Me and the coach got into it, and I was speaking with one of my teammates. He heard me use the N-word, basically, and basically tried to correct me by saying the N-word back.”
Rule No.1 It doesn’t matter how cool you are with the players and or how you thought you were trying to teach in that moment. You can’t use the word. It’s like two women talking and calling each other the B-word. You can’t at any point use it without getting your head torn off. So miss me with “he was trying to correct the player” foolishness.
On Monday instead of simply apologizing for not handling the situation well. Dabo threw up in his mouth with excuses on why he did what he did.
In a statement he said, “I would fire a coach immediately if he called a player an N-word. No questions asked.” But you didn’t playa!!!
He goes on to say, “That did not happen. Absolutely did not happen. It has not happened. Coach Pearman was correcting D.J., and another player was talking to D.J., or D.J. was yelling at the player, and D.J. said something he probably shouldn’t have said. He said, ‘I blocked the wrong F’ing N-word,’ and Coach Pearman thought he was saying it to him, and he’s mad, and he reacted, and in correcting him, he repeated the phrase. And [Pearman] said, ‘We don’t say we blocked the wrong F’ing N-word.’ And he repeated it. He shouldn’t have done that. There’s no excuse for even saying that. But there is a big difference. He did not call someone an N-word.”
Foolishness uncovered but I told you he wasn’t who you thought he was four years ago. When someone tells you who they are the first time. Listen to them.
Not only are we dealing with that foolishness. A picture surfaces on social media of Dabo in a t-shirt that reads “Football Matters.” I can’t make this stuff up.
His excuse after boyz blasted him about the shirt was, “Any insinuation I was trying to mock the Black Lives Matter movement is just an attack on my character. And really sad. I wholeheartedly support Black Lives Matter. I don’t quite think that’s adequate enough. I think black lives significantly and equally matter. God loves us all. None of us are better than anybody else. Actions are much louder than any words that I can say. I’ve always loved my players. I’m tough on them, but I love them deeply.“
Sure, he loves them deeply because they help him win national championships and fuel his $9 million a year salary. Stop me when I start lyin’!
