This isn’t the first time Andrew See has been to Clemson. The Tigers’ new pitching coach almost became a Tiger himself back in 1995 when he visited Clemson on Junior Day as a high school prospect.

“Coming out of high school, Clemson was one of my dream schools to attend,” See said in an exclusive interview with The Clemson Insider on Monday. “Everything about Clemson is a no brainer to me … tradition, facilities and the opportunity for the program to reach certain heights is endless.”

Tim Corbin, now the head coach at Vanderbilt, recruited See, who played his high school baseball in Adrian, Mich.

“Coach Corbin recruited me heavily through the process, and obviously meeting Coach (Jack) Leggett a couple of times while I was on campus was awesome. I think Coach Leggett was the first college head coach I got to meet in person, which was pretty cool.”

See ultimately attended Georgia before transferring to Ohio where he finished his baseball career as a First-Team All-MAC selection after hitting 17 home runs his senior year, while driving in a school-record 70 RBIs. He was a pitcher in college as well, recording a 13-12 record with 125 strikeouts.

Though he could not get the opportunity to attend Clemson as a player, See is now getting to fulfill his dream as a coach. When he was offered the job to become new head coach Monte Lee’s pitching coach, he could not turn the opportunity.

“It is funny how things work out,” See said. “It is pretty neat. I don’t think I ever thought I would get an opportunity to work at Clemson, but the stars kind of lined up.”

See had a lot to do in lining those stars up. In his coaching career, which began in 2002 as a student assistant at Ohio, he has coached several players who moved on to professional careers in the minors and the Major Leagues.

After stints at UNC-Greensboro and Appalachian State, See returned to Ohio in 2007 and spent the next six seasons as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at his alma mater. During his time there, he coached eight First-Team All-MAC players, three All-Americans, one MAC Player of the Year and had five players chosen in the MLB Draft.

When he came to Duke in 2012, it took him just one season to turn the pitching staff around. See led the Blue Devils to their two best ERA marks in the aluminum bat era. Despite his two best pitchers suffering injuries in 2015, Duke led the ACC with a 3.29 ERA. In 2014, the Blue Devils had a 3.14 ERA, the best mark at Duke since 1971, and its first sub-4.00 ERA since 1993.

In 2015, the Blue Devils staff had 441 strikeouts, third most in school history. In 2014, they totaled a school-record 501 strikeouts thanks in large part to Michael Matuella and Drew Van Orden, who was drafted in the fifth round. Matuella was drafted in the third round of the MLB Draft this past June.

When Lee became Clemson’s third head coach since 1958 in June, he approached See about joining his staff. This wasn’t the first time Lee offered See a job. Their coaching relationship goes back to when See was coaching at UNC-Greensboro and Appalachian State.

When Lee took the head coaching job at the College of Charleston back in 2009, he asked See to join him there, but See had just married his wife, Shauna, and did not want start his marriage by spending the first month on the road starting a new job, moving and recruiting at the same time.

But this time around everything was in place. He and Lee obviously stayed in touch through the years and when Lee approached him about joining him in Clemson—and though it was a tough decision to leave Duke—See was not going to pass on Clemson, again.

“At the end of the day, to work with those guys and to a part of the Clemson Tradition, was something I felt like I could not turn down,” See said.