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An Interview With:
CLEMSON
COACH DABO SWINNEY
Q. I saw you and Coach Shafer talking
earlier today and just was curious, had he
apologized after what happened in last year's
game?
DABO SWINNEY: No, he was still MF'g
me over there -- no, it's been a funny story. First of
all, I didn't have a clue. I'm hear at the ballgame
and when the ballgame is over Tim Bourret is
running over to me, we had a little problem during
the game. I'm like, we just won the game, what's
the problem. He told me what happened, so I
addressed the team and I go in our locker room
and Coach Shafer is in the coaches' locker room,
just he and I in there and my son was in there, and
he just -- he was so remorseful and just
apologized, and I said, what did you say, and he
went right back through it verbatim. My son was
over there going -- but I was like, wow, you were
really mad.
But he just -- he's a passionate guy when
you get to know him, and then we saw him at the
ACC meetings and my wife and I, we were going
for a walk, and we were coming out and here
comes this car, and next thing you know the car
stops and the window rolls down and it's
Ms. Shafer, and she's like, we need to take a
picture with y'all because their daughter was mad
at him and wanted to prove that we really like each
other, so we took a picture and had some fun.
He told me something that was interesting,
he said, you know, I spent 22 years in the press
box. He said, in the press box I threw stuff, I took
my shirt off, I did whatever I wanted to do and I
never had to worry about it. Now I'm the head
coach and I'm on the sideline and it's been a long
time. It was a very passionate moment, but we've
actually had a lot of fun in discussing that, and I
think he did a great job last year, and I think he's
going to continue to do a great job.