Clemson safety Tanner Muse has scored two defensive touchdowns in his first two seasons at Clemson. If he does it again, don’t expect to see him celebrating.

The redshirt sophomore was charged with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for excessive celebration following his fumble return touchdown during Clemson’s loss to Syracuse on Oct. 13. The flag led to the Orange scoring a go-ahead touchdown on their ensuing drive.

Needless to say, Dabo Swinney was not happy. Clemson’s head coach chewed out Muse and laid into him throughout Syracuse’s possession.

Muse said on Monday that he has learned a lesson.

“It was definitely a learning experience,” he said. “That was an immature move on my part, what I did. It won’t happen again.”

After returning his first career interception for a touchdown in Clemson’s win over Syracuse last season, Muse scooped up a fumble this time around and took it 63 yards to the house for a game-tying score midway through the second quarter.

Muse then made a gesture that resembled him downing a bag of popcorn, and it drew a flag from the official before Muse drew the wrath of Swinney.

“You sit and take it and you learn from it,” Muse said of being yelled at.

Muse views the stern talking-to from Swinney as tough love.

“You listen to what he has to say because he is telling it as it is,” Muse said. “He is telling it from the heart, so you take it in, you do what you can with it constructively.”

Muse sat in front of the media and said the right things about his mistake. He has learned from it, and thinks his teammates will, too.

“Being able to take that moment and making something positive about it, I think other guys on the team are going to learn from it,” Muse said. “So, I think it’s not all negative even though it was a negative play.”