When Danny Ford coached at Clemson in the late 1970s and all throughout the 1980s, the Hall of Fame head coach was never in a situation concerning his entire football team like Dabo Swinney and the athletic department is in right now.
The COVID-19 pandemic has already forced Power 5 Conferences the Big Ten and Pac-12 to shut down the fall sports seasons. The NCAA has postponed its fall championships until the spring, but the ACC, SEC, Big 12 and four other Group of 5 conferences keep pushing forward to the start of the 2020 season.
Ford does not envy Swinney or any of the other coaches that are having to coach their teams in this COVID-19 world that we all live in.