The last thing Dabo Swinney heard from his agent Mike Brown was this, “Hey, Dabo! You did it! We did it! Clemson won a National Championship.”
That was this past Friday night as Clemson’s head coach was getting off the phone with Brown. Two days later, Brown, 56, suddenly passed away after fighting pancreatic cancer. Brown was diagnosed with the disease back in October and had just finished his chemotherapy last Wednesday.
He was scheduled for surgery next week.
“It made Dabo really happy that Mike got to see Clemson win a national championship,” Swinney’s wife Kathleen said.