When Chad Morris informed Dabo Swinney he was leaving Clemson to become the next head coach at SMU, it did not take Swinney too long to replace his old offensive coordinator.
“I have made a lot of decisions in the last six years and probably the easiest decision I made was replacing Chad,” Swinney said. “That took about thirty seconds because that plan has been in place for a while.”
The plan was to hire within and promote running backs coach Tony Elliott and wide receivers coach Jeff Scott as co-offensive coordinators.
“I coached Tony. I mentored Jeff.