Paul Finebaum sounded off on Clemson and head coach Dabo Swinney following the Tigers’ decisive 41-13 home loss to No. 4 Miami on Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.

On The Matt Barrie Show, Finebaum criticized Swinney once again, stating that he “needs to be looking for another destination at some point.”

Finebaum reiterated his belief that the two-time national championship coach needs a fresh start somewhere else.

“I was watching the game, and my wife said, ‘Clemson looks pretty good.’ I’m like, by whose standards? By their own standards of recent years, Matt,” Finebaum said. “And we judge them, that normally, any loss by Clemson used to be treated in the same way as a loss by Nick Saban or Kirby Smart or Ryan Day. And now it’s just like, ‘Oh, okay, well, they hung in there.’ If you bet the money line in the first half, you probably won. But you’re right. And that’s what happens when you settle.

“And I’m not going to start up again on Dabo. I can’t say any more than I’ve already said. But he’s another guy that if he wants to die on that hill, he will die on that hill. He needs to be looking for another destination at some point.”

Co-host Matt Barrie discussed how the Clemson offense and defense didn’t “look like they belong on the same field with Miami,” which is a major drop-off for a program that used to be the gold standard of the ACC and even college football overall.

Finebaum used an analogy to describe Swinney and the “runway” he’s built with past success, but Finebaum says that runway doesn’t last forever.

“It works in every field. Whether it’s what we do, whether it’s politics, whether it’s entertainment – when you’ve done what Dabo has done, you have a very long runway. But there comes a point when you get to the end of that runway, and if you don’t lift off, you are going to crash,” Finebaum added.

Finebaum believes Swinney has reached a point where, as Finebaum put it, Swinney can’t see himself any longer.

Finebaum opined that every field has “enablers,” but Swinney desperately needs someone to pull him aside and bluntly tell him like it is regarding the current state of his program.

“We’ve been around various people in similar situations. And then there comes a point where you can’t see yourself any longer, and he can’t,” Finebaum said. “I’ve seen it with a lot of colleagues over the years — and I realize I’m in an unusual business — but you have to take it. You need somebody to tell you, ‘Hey, this is terrible.’ And that’s the problem. We have a lot of enablers in every field, including the one we’re in. And somebody needs to shoot straight, and nobody is shooting straight with Dabo.

“And he lives in a bubble in a small town where he goes down to the square and everybody loves him and talks about Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence. But unfortunately, nobody knows who’s playing quarterback anymore, and that’s the problem.”

With the loss to Miami, Clemson fell to 3-2 overall and 2-1 in ACC play. After an open date next weekend, Swinney’s team returns to the field on Saturday, Oct. 17, vs. Charleston Southern at Memorial Stadium.

You can hear the full thoughts from Finebaum and Barrie on Swinney and the Tigers following their loss to Miami below: