{"id":185732,"date":"2023-01-13T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/garrett-riley-to-clemson-what-it-means-for-dabo-swinney-the-tigers-and-tcu\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:26:08","slug":"garrett-riley-to-clemson-what-it-means-for-dabo-swinney-the-tigers-and-tcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/garrett-riley-to-clemson-what-it-means-for-dabo-swinney-the-tigers-and-tcu\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Riley to Clemson – What it means for Dabo Swinney, the Tigers and TCU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a second consecutive three-loss season, Dabo Swinney is remaking the Clemson program. Last year, the Tigers head coach promoted from within when former coordinators Brent Venables (Oklahoma) and Tony Elliott (Virginia) got head-coaching jobs.<\/p>\n
But after firing offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter on Thursday, ESPN sources say Swinney will name TCU’s Garrett Riley to the same position. It is a shake-up at a program known for continuity — Swinney hadn’t fired an assistant coach since 2011 before this move.<\/p>\n
Riley is fresh off winning the Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant while helping guide the Horned Frogs to the national title game in his first season in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
What kind of playcaller are the Tigers getting? What does it say about the state of Clemson? And what’s next for TCU? David M. Hale and Dave Wilson break it all down.<\/p>\n
What prompted this move from Clemson?<\/h2>\n
It’s hard to say Streeter was to blame for Clemson’s offensive issues in 2022. The truth is, in his first year as coordinator, Streeter actually steered the offense to markedly better numbers than 2021. But Streeter was also largely a continuation of Clemson’s past. He may not have been responsible for the downturn, but it seemed clear he wasn’t going to steer things in a new — and needed — direction. Instead, Swinney appears to have found someone in Riley who can add some serious spice to an offense that was, from an X’s and O’s standpoint, pretty vanilla. Vanilla worked with Trevor Lawrence and Deshaun Watson and a host of NFL backs and receivers. Without them, vanilla has just looked … bland.<\/p>\n