Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney says if Clemson is tired of winning, they can send him away and he’ll go coach at another place.

Swinney pointed out during his weekly Tuesday press conference that he’s only 55 years old and “ain’t going to the beach.” He’s “just getting going,” he says.

“Hey, listen, if Clemson’s tired of winning, they can send me on my way. But I’m going to go somewhere else and coach. I ain’t going to the beach,” Swinney said. “Hell, I’m 55. I’ve got a long way to go. Y’all gonna have to deal with me for a while. I’ve got a long way to go. I’m just getting going. I’m just now good enough to be a head coach. I’m just now figuring it out. So, we’ll be around a while. Let’s hang in there.”

Swinney was passionate in defense of his program.

“So, if they want me gone, they’re tired of winning, they can send me on my way, because that’s all we’ve done is win,” Swinney said. “We’ve won this league eight out of the last 10 years. Is that not good? I’m just asking. Is that good? I don’t know if that’s good or not, to win your league eight out of 10 years, to go to the playoffs seven out of 10 years, be in four national championships, win it twice. Yeah, we’re a little down right now. Take your shots. But I got a long memory, in case y’all don’t know.”

Swinney also had a message for fans who are giving up on the Tigers after a 1-2 start to this season.

“We’ll be alright. We’ll bounce back. This is a program built to last. Always has been. Always will be,” Swinney said. “And I would just say if you give up on us, if you don’t believe in us because we’ve lost two games down to the last play, you didn’t believe in us anyway, so it don’t matter. You weren’t all in, anyway. If you’re all in, you burn the ship, man. There ain’t no exit strategy. You’re freakin’ all in.”

Swinney added that he’s sorry to “disappoint all the haters out there” who are ready for him to hang it up, and all the negativity and criticism surrounding his program right now isn’t “going to steal my joy.”

“I’ve got a long way to go, boys. Long way to go. Hate to disappoint all the haters out there,” he said. “But ain’t nothing going to steal my joy. Ain’t nothing going to steal my joy. Now, I ain’t happy – happiness is based on results you get, right. But joy is something that’s deeper within, and that’s what I build my life on. I’m way too blessed to let it steal my joy.

“It’s frustrating, and I’m sure it’s really nasty. Because again, we have a society now that’s normalized nastiness and hate and criticism, and we give platforms to people to just tear people down, and make stuff up and lie, and nobody cares. That’s just normal in society, and that’s sad, but that’s why I don’t participate in that. I think we all have a choice, what you let in and what you don’t. But that’s a part of the problem, too, because that’s the world these guys live in.”

Swinney, who leans heavily on his faith as a Christian, added that his “identity is not tied up in a scoreboard.”

“You lose a game at a place like Clemson and people can lose their mind, and you’ve got to learn how to manage that,” he said. “You’ve got to learn how to live your life with that. That’s why you’ve got to build your life on the foundation of faith.”