For a second on early Tuesday morning, Dabo Swinney thought he was in trouble.
Around 12:30 a.m., Swinney’s wife, Kathleen, rolled over in bed and gave the Clemson head coach a kiss on the cheek and said, “Happy Anniversary.”
“I did not really know what she was talking about,” Swinney said. “I panicked for a second. It was an out of body experience there. Then I realized it was October 13, so that was pretty cool.”
October 13 of course is not just any normal day for the Clemson head coach. It is the day he was named the interim head coach at Clemson in 2008, replacing Tommy Bowden who stepped down that morning following a loss to Wake Forest the previous Thursday night.