When he met with his returning players late last week, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney had just one message for them. He told them to stay hungry.
“He told us now that it has happened, let’s go get another one,” wide receiver Deon Cain said. “Once you get it once, you are capable of doing it again. We know the work we have to put in to be a national champion so we are going to start that process again in the next few weeks.”
That process will begin with mat drills, which is where the heart and the character of a team are first conceived.