After Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney’s viral rant last week, longtime sports personality Dan Patrick defended Swinney by posing the question of, “You want to run him out of town, who you bringing in?” Patrick also said if Swinney is “gone today, he’ll get a job by later today.”

This week, Patrick called out Swinney after yet another loss for his Clemson team, this time at the hands of Syracuse by a score of 34-21 last Saturday at Death Valley.

“Dabo Swinney, you can’t have that kind of performance out of your team at home after you have a press conference where you’re calling out the media for calling you out,” Patrick said on the Dan Patrick Show.

During last Saturday’s edition of College GameDay, legendary former Alabama coach and current ESPN analyst Nick Saban appeared to throw Swinney under the bus for his rant, in the current transfer portal and NIL era.

“Dabo needs to look at what he needs to do in his program to make his program continually be successful,” Saban said. “Do you have to change the portal, do you have to change name, image and likeness? The game has changed. You need to change with it, otherwise you’re not going to put yourself in the same position other people are and having a chance to be successful.”

Patrick seems to agree with what Saban had to say about Swinney.

“This is what Nick Saban was talking about,” Patrick said. “You have to get up to speed with today’s game. And I’m not talking about the actual speed of a player or the game, I’m talking about you’ve got to get up and understand exactly – you’ve got to be aggressive. … Dabo with NIL, transfer portal. This drove Saban out of the game. But you can’t sit there and have your head in the sand and go, ‘Well, you know what, we’re still gonna get great players.’ You are, but so are other teams, and they get them by just paying them.”

As for Syracuse’s victory over Clemson? Patrick is among those who were surprised by the outcome.

“Syracuse played well. They were the better team, and it showed,” Patrick said. “But Clemson, at home, man. That’s one of those, ‘What?’ And I’m watching, I’m going, ‘OK, where’s Cade Klubnik?’ And he threw I think three touchdown passes, but you’re losing at home. Just surprised.”