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Swinney says being invited to the White House ‘is a great honor’

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney set the record straight about the Tigers’ trip to the White House last month when he addressed the media Wednesday as a part of National Signing Day.

“I know there were some stories that some people did not go,” he said. “Everybody had an opportunity to go if they wanted to go and if they did not want to go, they did not have to go.”

Swinney was referring to a couple of stories that came out last week reporting why some players chose not to make the trip to Washington, D.