He didn't take his foot off the gas, he's a moron.
He went 11-11 because he lost Joe Brady on offense and Dave Aranda on defense and didn't know how to correctly replace them.
Sure, but Clemson's classes were ranked 6th, 10th, 10th and 10th in the years before that. Those classes are what makes up the majority of their team now. The '25 recruiting class will be true freshman and the '26 class is not even on campus yet so the ranking of those classes is not very...