Days after publicly calling out "one of the worst calls" he has ever seen in their 46-45 loss to Duke last weekend, Dabo Swinney had a rant for the ages earlier today.
After being fined $10,000 by the ACC for his take on the officiating, Dabo called for officials to face the same type of accountability that coaches and players get after games.
It's a sentiment shared by a lot in the coaching profession.
"The playoff has changed a lot of what is at stake, and that's why I was so frustrated with the refs...a little salty...because there is a lot at stake, and there are not consequences."
"Coaches get crucified, fined. Players get crucified and held to this unrealistic accountability standard, but refs have zero accountability. Well, they do, but it's behind a curtain. They get to go home and have a beer and get on with their life, and just leave the carnage behind that affects a lot of people. People are losing jobs, and that system needs to change too."
"That system needs to change," Dabo, whose team in 3-5 overall and 2-4 in ACC play, repeated for proper emphasis.
Dabo goes on to insist that, with everything that is at stake, college officials should be just like NFL officials in that they should be full-time and not part-time. Back in 2017, the NFL allowed any of their current 124 officials to apply for a full-time status with an annual salary that crossed the $200,000 threshold just a few years ago in 2023.
"It needs to be a job. There needs to be one leader, and one voice, and there should be public accountability. Peroid. C'mon. You can't criticize them? But they are on the field. They are in the arena. They are the only ones in the arena without consequences publicly. God forbid you have to pay a fine because you criticize performance, but yet everyone else can be criticized."
"It's a bad system, the way it's set up, and there needs to be some changes. There needs to be the ability to review egregious calls in certain situations. Because it means too much. People are losing jobs - whether it's assistants, or head coaches - or players and how they get crucifed on social media."
"The coaches and the players aren't the only ones who should have accountability."
Hear more of Dabo's thoughts in the clip, and always stay tuned to The Scoop for the latest.