Swinney: ‘She’s on a Need-to-Know Basis Only’

On Tuesday of last week, ahead of Clemson’s eventual 24-10 home win over Florida State last Saturday, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney decided that after their first touchdown in the game, the Tigers were going to go for two instead of kicking the extra point. “I made the decision on Tuesday — which is our […]

More Injury Updates as Clemson Opens Spring Practice

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney met with the media on Friday before the Tigers officially began spring practice. Swinney gave a number of injury updates, including updates on DL Stephiylan Green, CB Jeadyn Lukus and OL Walker Parks. Swinney also provided injury updates on a slew of other players. Here’s a rundown of those injury […]

Dabo Not Buying Son’s Smack Talk

The Swinney household, as Clay Swinney put it recently, is a “very competitive” one. “Obviously, I’ve got two older brothers and then my dad’s very competitive, so very competitive household growing up, playing just about anything – basketball is definitely one of them,” Clay, the youngest son of Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney, said in […]

Clay Swinney Claims He Can Give Dad ‘A Beatdown’ on Basketball Court

CLEMSON — The Swinney brothers have been the holder on field goals and extra points for the last seven years at Clemson. Starting with the oldest, Will, then Drew and now Clay, who touched on growing up at Memorial Stadium and now playing for the Tigers. Clay Swinney grew up in a very competitive household. […]

88 days away: The Swinney lineage and a recent contributor

Continuing our countdown for the 2023 football season, we look at No. 88. The season kicks off on the road at Duke Sept. 4. The Past No. 88 The most recent past player on the countdown so far, Braden Galloway was a hometown kid, playing at Seneca High School before making his way to Clemson. […]

‘I’m just really proud of him’: Lawson answered challenge from Swinney

Dabo Swinney is very familiar with Clemson’s new defensive end signee. The Tigers’ head coach has seen Jahiem Lawson mature and develop before his own eyes, and on Wednesday, the local edge rusher from nearby Daniel High School inked with Swinney’s program during National Signing Day. Lawson grew up with Swinney’s youngest son, Clay – […]

TCI’s National Signing Day preview: Breaking down commits, targets

The countdown to National Signing Day continues. With Wednesday’s NSD fast approaching, The Clemson Insider wanted to provide a primer to get you ready for the big day as it relates to the Tigers. In the following preview, we break down the commitments that Clemson is set to sign on Wednesday, the targets that the […]

Swinney’s motorcycle not a mid-life crisis

This football season Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney cut an advertisement for motorcycle safety that airs regularly on the radio in Upstate South Carolina. On Monday night during Swinney’s weekly “Tiger Calls” show with Don Munson on 105.5 FM WCCP, a caller asked Swinney about the ad and his experience on motorcycles. And Swinney jumped […]

Top in-state target dishes on Clemson, recruitment, Carolina coaching change

One of the Clemson football program’s top wide receiver targets in the 2022 recruiting class hails from the Palmetto State in four-star Adam Randall of Myrtle Beach (S.C.) High School. Randall, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound junior, is one of just two receivers that the Tigers have offered for the next recruiting cycle. He has collected over […]