During his weekly Tuesday press conference, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney called the 1-3 start to this season an “absolute coaching failure.”
Clemson offensive line coach Matt Luke met with the media Wednesday and said Swinney’s assessment is “very fair.”
“When you come to Clemson, you expect to win championships, and when you don’t win, there’s accountability that goes with that,” Luke said. “When you’re hired as a coach, you’re coming in expecting to win. So when you don’t, there’s accountability. There’s collective accountability.”
Swinney said Tuesday that Clemson’s players also have their share of accountability for how this season has gone so far, but “when players don’t play to their potential, to me, that’s on coaches” – and Swinney said it starts with himself.