Greg Huegel walked onto the Clemson football team in the summer of 2015 as a sophomore. He had spent his freshman season watching the Tigers play from the stands with the rest of his classmates, not yet aware of the ride he would take the next few years.
Huegel had originally accepted a walk-on offer at Auburn, but a coaching change caused him to reconsider and he decided to join his sister and enroll at Clemson. It was a decision that had him go from being known as “Ice Cold” at Blythewood for his ability to handle pressure situations, to Dabo Swinney’s “grocery store kicker,” after Swinney joked about him trying out in a Bi-Lo parking lot.