Dabo Swinney still has the ability to surprise people.
A familiar refrain over the last few years has been that Swinney absolutely hates and refuses to use the transfer portal, hates NIL, and simply wants to hire friends and family and will ride those hires into his own firing.
Swinney and staff offered an offensive lineman out of the portal this week (and it won’t be the last), and the head coach parted ways with two of his assistants Thursday afternoon in offensive line coach Thomas Austin and defensive ends coach Lemanski Hall.