Following Clemson’s loss to Syracuse that dropped the Tigers to 1-3 for the first time under Dabo Swinney, ESPN’s Paul Finebaum said on The Matt Barrie Show that he believes “it’s over” for Swinney at Clemson and “it’s time for him to go.”

“I think it’s over at Clemson. Let’s quit trying to sugarcoat it,” Finebaum said. “Sometimes it’s very difficult to get it back when you’ve lost it. He lost it, he got it back, now he’s lost it again and he’s lost it badly. It’s time for him to go.”

Finebaum joined ESPN’s First Take this week and attempted to clarify what he meant by those comments about Clemson’s longtime head coach.

“Listen, I wasn’t suggesting he get fired,” Finebaum said. “I was suggesting he either do one of two things – go to another school while he still can, or go into TV, which I think he would be very good at.”

With that said, Finebaum added, “I don’t like his future at Clemson,” and says he doesn’t want to see Swinney end up like Mike Gundy, the second-longest-tenured FBS head coach who was fired by Oklahoma State on Tuesday.

“The one thing I don’t want to happen here because of Dabo’s greatness – he’s won two national championships, he’s played for the title countless times – I don’t want to see Dabo Swinney, a Hall of Fame coach, end his career five years from now looking like Mike Gundy did on Tuesday afternoon, being pushed out the door after an amazing career,” Finebaum said. “That’s really my major point here.”

Finebaum thinks Swinney has “really hurt himself” by the type of comments he made during his viral rant before the Syracuse game, when he said, “If they want me gone, they’re tired of winning, they can send me on my way, because that’s all we’ve done is win.”

“Dabo is still in very good shape at Clemson. No one, and I mean nobody, is pushing him out,” Finebaum said. “But he has really hurt himself by these comments, and entitlement only goes so far when you’ve been successful. College football fans get very weary, and I think they are weary of him, and he’s close to becoming a punchline. And I think that would be sad when you consider what he’s accomplished. Let’s not forget – five weeks ago, we were sitting right here, many of us, thinking he may have had the best team in the country.”