Ten years ago, a tradition was accidentally created outside of Death Valley. Jill “Mrs. Jill” Wilks, the Administrative Assistant for Recruiting at Clemson University, is solely responsible for this unintended tradition.
In 2008, Wilks was in the wrong place at the right time — stuck between the football team buses and Clemson fans. Players bombarded her with hugs the second they stepped off the buses and saw her there.
Wilks’ boss voiced his dismay with the exchange to which she exclaimed, “I’m not doing this, it’s the boys!” Her boss frowned from across the parking lot.
“I decided that I was going to have to do it somewhere else so I didn’t hold the line up,” she said.