Dabo Swinney caused a lot of outrage last week when he appeared to be very optimistic that the 2020 college football season would indeed be played as scheduled, stating he had “zero doubt.”
“My preference is let’s get to work and go play,” Swinney said. “That’s the best-case scenario, and I think that’s what’s going to happen. I don’t have any doubt. I have zero doubt that we’re going to be playing and the stands are going to be packed.”
“That’s just my mindset. I’ve got one plan, and that’s to get the Tigers ready to play in late August, early September,” Swinney said. “I’ll leave it to the smart people to figure out the doomsday scenarios. We’ve got one scenario, and that’s to run down that hill and kick it off in the valley.”
On that same call, he made matters so much worse when revealing that he’s taken his family on a private plane and even mentioned that he’s considering taking another flight for Easter weekend.
Appearing on SiriusXM Monday — Swinney was unapologetic when addressing the criticism head-on.
From TigerNet.com:
“I am not surprised. Listen, there are so many blessings to having this job that I have and I have worked my whole life to get to this point. The blessings are unlimited as far as the job I have and the things I get to do. But there are a lot of negatives that come with this job, too, and one of those is criticism and that is something that I’ve just accepted. It doesn’t matter what I say or what anybody says there is going to be criticism. It doesn’t surprise me at all. You know, I could say the sky is blue and somebody would be as mad as anything. That’s one thing I’ve learned over the years. I don’t get affected by that. I just speak my heart.
I just answered the question the other day. That is the other thing. You answer questions and you try to be honest and transparent and you answer questions, and then you get blasted because somebody might not agree with your answer or something like that. But I am not out blasting somebody else because they have a different opinion than me. It just comes with the territory. That is just the way it is.”
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The CDC advising people not to travel unless truly important is what people are viewing as a slap in the face to everyone who is trying to do what they can to help stop the spread of the virus. Swinney has to realize the platform he has and use it better to make sure others don’t get the wrong idea to think everything is fine.
