Clemson's Dabo Swinney's ACC football's staunchest advocate
Posted Jul 25, 2017
Dabo Swinney could have hedged. 'Twas the summer of 2012, realignment fever gripped college athletics, and the ACC was purportedly ripe for plundering. The reason was football. The ACC hadn't produced a top-five team since 2000, and conventional wisdom said the league's most football-centric schools, Clemson and Florida State, needed to join with more like-minded institutions.
(Daily Press)
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