Even before Dabo Swinney was leading his Clemson football program to conference and national championships, he was doing something more important for his community.
A week after he took over the Clemson program, as an interim head coach, Swinney knew it was important for his team to come together and do something together that had nothing to do with football.
Clemson was coming off a loss to Georgia Tech and had an open date before they went to Boston College that following week.
“I remember very vividly. I was like, ‘You know, we are going to do something a little different this year on our open date,’” Swinney recalled.