Andre Szmyt misses a yard field goal on Syracuse's final possession as Clemson holds on to win. Clemson football's Dabo Swinney said Tuesday that he had no interest in the LSU coaching vacancy at this point, joking that he was surprised to be considered "a big-time coach.
Swinney has been speculated to be a possible candidate to replace Ed Orgeron since LSU agreed to part ways with its coach after this season -- just two years after winning the national title. It's a tough business. Swinney has long been rumored as a potential successor to Nick Saban at Alabama, his alma mater, but has always denied any serious interest in leaving Clemson, where he has coached as an assistant and head coach since Clemson is and has yet to score more than 19 points against an FBS opponent this season.
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Kansas Jayhawks. He was successful but unhappy, so when Bowden called to offer him a job coaching wide receivers at Clemson in , Dabo jumped at the opportunity. Clemson was a successful program, and Swinney quickly became a popular figure among the players — even those players who played other positions, as then-athletic director Terry Don Phillips noticed on numerous occasions. When Bowden was relieved of his head coaching duties following a loss to Wake Forest midway through the season, Phillips tabbed Swinney to be the interim coach.
He was the right guy. Swinney hit the ground running and the Tigers won four of their final six games, including a decision against South Carolina that helped convince Phillips to remove the interim tag.
The next year, on his 40th birthday, Swinney was busy preparing his Clemson team to play Virginia the next day at Memorial Stadium. Clemson won , its sixth victory in a row en route to a season. Five weeks later to the day, Swinney got his first bowl win as a head coach when Clemson beat Kentucky in the Music City Bowl, Dabo and Kathleen and their three sons celebrated Christmas with a tiny tree on a bedside stand in a hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee.
Clemson had an record after finishing in ACC regular-season games. For the fourth time in his first five full seasons as head coach, Swinney was a finalist for the Liberty Mutual National Coach of the Year in The seven conference wins in the regular season were then a school record, while Clemson was co-champion of the ACC Atlantic Division. Clemson also reached the win mark for the first time since its national championship season.
It gave Clemson its first win season since In , Swinney became just the second Tiger coach to lead Clemson to a bowl game in his first two full years as head coach, joining his predecessor, Tommy Bowden. The schedule was one of the most challenging in school history, as nine bowl teams were on the regular-season slate and two of the four non-conference opponents were ranked in the top The Tigers came just six points short of winning their first ACC title in 18 years.
He led the Tigers to a record during the remainder of the regular season, including a win over South Carolina in the regular-season finale to earn a Gator Bowl bid against Nebraska.
On Dec. At the time, there had been 28 interim head coaches at the FBS level since , and those coaches had combined for a record of Only one of those 28 interim coaches posted a winning record, and that was Swinney.
When he was hired as head coach, he became just the second interim coach to be elevated to the head coach position at the same school during that time period. Swinney hit the ground running in his first week as interim head coach, as he prepared for a Georgia Tech team.
He had to reorganize his staff and regroup his team and the fanbase in just five days. While the Tigers lost by four points, he accomplished many goals in that first week through his outstanding leadership.
In its inaugural year, the foundation made the first contribution to the cancer fund established for former Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich, and many schools followed its lead during the remainder of the season. The Alabama graduate joined the Clemson staff prior to the season. In his first 18 years as an assistant or head coach, the Tigers finished in the top 25 of the polls 14 times and totaled 41 wins over top teams.
Swinney coached his wide receiver position to a level of consistency that had not been seen previously at Clemson. He had a wideout finish first or second in the ACC in catches in five of his six years as an assistant coach. In his first year, he had three of the top receivers in the ACC, a first in Tiger history.
The Alabama native has a reputation as one of the top recruiters in the nation. In , he was listed as the No. When Swinney accepted the interim head coaching position at Clemson on Oct. He had also brought Swinney back to the coaching profession in and has had a profound effect on his life. Both had followed similar paths as players, as Bowden was a walk-on at West Virginia and Swinney was a walk-on at Alabama.
After his playing career, Swinney served as a graduate assistant at Alabama from He became a full-time assistant coach at Alabama in February under head coach Gene Stallings and coached a total of five seasons there on a full-time basis. The following year, he solely coached the tight ends. During his time at Alabama, Swinney was a part of six teams with double-digit wins, five top finishes, one national title , three SEC championships ,92,99 and five SEC West Division titles ,93,94,96,99 as a player and coach.
Swinney married the former Kathleen Bassett in They have three sons, Will, Drew and Clay. Will, and Drew are both on the Tiger football team. Clemson is since he returned to Clemson in Etienne finished his career as one of only 12 players in FBS history with 4, career rushing yards and 1, career receiving yards. Clemson was the first school with back-to-back point seasons since Yale in , predating the start of official NCAA recordkeeping in Also broke the school records in yards per carry 6.
He was named co-offensive coordinator prior to the Russell Athletic Bowl. The Tigers have an record in 87 games since his promotion. He had 1, rushing yards and 29 receptions.
Ellington was just the third running back in school history with two 1,yard rushing seasons. He played on the team that finished No. Clemson has finished in the top in each of the first 10 years he has been a full-time coach, including top-5 finishes in each of the last six seasons. Mims ended his career with catches for 2, yards.
He had 23 receptions for yards and a touchdown that season. He came to Clemson as a walk-on in the fall of and finished his career with four letters and 44 games, including four as a starter as a senior He had a touchdown catch at Georgia Tech that year. Uiagalelei throw for yards against No.
It was tied for the sixth-longest streak by an FBS starting quarterback at any point of a career. Earned Quarterbacks Coach of the Year from Sports.
He became the first player in FBS history with at least 4, passing yards and 1, rushing yards in a season in Five of the last eight teams were conference champions or co-champions, and Clemson has finished in the top two in each of his four full seasons.
That included a yard average, eighth-best in the nation, in The Spiders also averaged yards per game, 19th-most in the nation, and were second in third-down conversion percentage Virtually every Richmond individual game, season and career school passing record was established during the season.
The Richmond offense was 20th in passing offense and 21st in scoring offense. In , Liberty led the Big South Conference in passing yards and pass efficiency. That Liberty team won the Big South Conference title for a fourth straight year. Entering , his collegiate games coached are the most of any active Power Five coach.
That includes 10 first-team all-conference selections, tied with Alabama for third-most in the Power Five.
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