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One of our biggest gripes about hot takes is that the people delivering them often don't hold themselves accountable when they've whiffed on one. They merely move on to the next one elsewhere, taking advantage of short attention spans and betting (correctly in a lot of cases) that no one will even remember what they said 10 months ago or even 10 days ago.

Thus it's only fair for us to give firm hat tips to those who are currently taking a deeper dive on Clemson and concluding that they weren't thinking deeply enough about the big picture over the years when they excoriated Dabo Swinney and Co. for his supposedly antiquated methods.

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