Dabo Swinney has been known to come up with great strategies to get his team in the right mind set. Clemson linebacker Isaiah Simmons spoke to the media Monday at the Poe Indoor Facility about one of those mentalities, being a coffee bean.
The junior talked about what it meant to be a “coffee bean” and how he applies it.
Simmons on the coffee bean mentality
“To be a coffee bean, you don’t want to be an egg because when an egg gets put in hot water, it hardens. You don’t want to be a carrot because when a carrot gets put in hot water, it softens.