Though he was joking around Wednesday night, there was some truth to what Dabo Swinney was saying when he explained the Tigers’ identity conflict when he started as head coach back in 2008.
“We were chameleons,” Swinney said jokingly. “I really did not know what we were. I really didn’t.”
So, Swinney called a meeting with then sports information director Tim Bourret and former All-American linebacker Jeff Davis, who works on Swinney’s staff. The Clemson coach asked them what the traditional uniform was at Clemson.
Though Swinney came to Clemson as the wide receivers coach in 2003, the Tigers’ uniform to him during those five seasons was just whatever the seniors voted on that week.