Mickey Plyler

  Mickey Plyler visits the podcast to try to make some sense of the current college football world from bowl opt-outs, to the transfer portal, to NIL, and to Clemson's dispiriting performance in the Orange Bowl against Tennessee. What to make of six losses for Clemson the past two years? Does it signal a significant decline worthy of Dabo Swinney making some changes, or are the Tigers on the way back with Cade Klubnik showing real promise in the last two games of 2022? Four years ago it seemed like a Clemson-Alabama world, and entering the 2019 season there was seemingly legitimate talk of the Tigers going 45-0 with Trevor Lawrence after the freshman tore apart the 2018 CFP. Since then there have been new arrivals to the party -- LSU, Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan, TCU -- and the Tigers and Crimson Tide found themselves on the outside looking in this season. Plyler has spent the week fielding calls and texts on his radio show saying that the party is over for Clemson, and that Swinney needs to change his ways. What's a fair criticism? What's an unfair criticism? We try to sort it out in this postseason conversation with the WCCP-FM host.