CLEMSON – Chocolate, vanilla and now strawberry?
Those are all ice cream flavors, but head coach Dabo Swinney equates those flavors to the three option teams Clemson has faced – and will face this weekend in Georgia Tech.
Both Furman and Georgia Southern run a variation of the option, but Swinney said Paul Johnson’s triple-option attack is a completely different flavor, run with ACC caliber athletes.
"I'd be crazy to tell you it hasn't helped. We've had to spend a lot of practice time defending them,” Swinney said during his Tuesday press conference. “Now, all option teams are not the same.