well, Dabo is 2-0 vs Urban including a woodshed beatdown last year.
I personally think Dabo is as good as anyone in the country other than Saban.
I would take Urban the recruiter vs anyone in the country, but I think it's safe to say you can question a team's coaching when it has 10 penalties, 2 turnovers, no clue on special teams. I think that's fair.
I was gonna be all snarky, but after a reread realized there was more pumping of Dabo and maybe overblown complaints about Urby than purely pushing one over the other. That said, this is a good reminder of a useful adage: your problems are a big deal to you because they're YOUR'S. Other people's are not for the same reason.
The complaints are highly small potatoes. I promise you, Clemson has bigger ones. Clemson has the No. 1 overall QB in last year's class on the bench and is starting a low-ceiling, injured dual-threat game manager who has a QB rating of 136. Clemson lost to a .500 team and got slowed down by a bad defense. Everyone's got problems
Comparing the two is tricky. By accomplishment, Urby leads. By the moment, Dabo is the defending national champion. And by qualities it's tricky because they're different types.
Urbs
Pro
Offensive innovator (I know if you watch it enough, it feels stale, but CFB had seen it 10 years before the came to Columbus and his offenses have ranks 16, 2, 1, 14, 23, 3)
Hell for leather recruiter
Good eye for defensive coaches
Wins a damn lot
Cons
Offense can get too QB heavy
Some specials and game management concerns, I guess
Passing game rarely spectacular
Dabo
Pro
Great recruiter, maybe better than Urbs (He's recruited a top-10 talent team in a spot that far harder than OSU)
Good eye in two coordinator hires and solid eye in hiring caretakers when one left
Great sense of program management/PR
Took a program up a level, which is no easy feat.
Cons
Pure football bonafides only so-so. Has often been characterized as a cheerleader, which is harsh, but not without a grain of truth.
Tends to meddle with his O, though that went away with Morris and might be back now
Is only at this level because of a perhaps generational player, and will have to prove that wasn't just the cause
(Does not closely watch Clemson games to determine management, but considering he's not praised for it, I'll assume it's average football coach, which means fans are often not happy)