Why doesn’t Dabo Swinney wait to see if we play football?

The once-unknown Clemson coach has made the ultimate sacrifice of reducing his income for the last 10 months of the current fiscal year to JUST $7,562,500.

Wow, Dabo, I can only come up with the Yiddish word “mensch” to describe you, which means a person of integrity and honor. Not really.

All Clemson employees who make $400,000 or more voluntarily join Dabo by taking a 10 percent pay cut. This sounds to me like the richest people in the world fighting against paying more taxes than they would ever miss.

The Clemson employee who has to give up 40 grand will suffer a lot more than Dabo losing only $687,500. What’s wrong with this picture?

Swinney, who should be grateful every day to Clemson for giving him the job 10 years ago, needs to wait to see if there is any football played and the total revenue lost. If the season is canceled, maybe he should work for a lot less than $7.5 mill to help cover the income shortfall.

Last year, Swinney signed a 10-year contract for $93 million, which annually is more than all 50 governors in the country combined. And the govs are working a lot harder these days against the virus than coaches who still don’t know whether their teams will play, and if so for how long. Meanwhile, other athletic employees take furlough days without pay, the number depending on how much they make.

If we want to air the other dirty laundry of Dabo’s deal, his buyout should he leave Clemson started at only $4 million and goes down to $1 million over the next four years. Except, there is one big exception. Should he leave Death Valley to go to his alma mater Alabama, he will pay an additional $5 million to break his contract. Big whoop!

Roy Williams has already given $600,000 to UNC to pay for the shortfall from suspended spring sports. And Ol’ Roy earns less than half of Dabo, with three national championships to his two. And I am sure Roy and Mack Brown and the other UNC athletic employees will sacrifice more once the university knows exactly what the damage is.

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