The winner of The Masters each April gets to don the green jacket. The happy head coach of the Clemson Tigers gets to wear a special orange jacket when he reels in a bumper crop of prospects.
Head coach Dabo Swinney walked into the interview area Wednesday afternoon fresh off another top ten recruiting class, and his bright smile was only outdone by the orange jacket he pulled out for the special occasion.
He was a little over ten minutes late to the press conference – he and the staff watched from the new football operations complex as Jackson Carman, the nation’s top-ranked offensive tackle for 2018, chose Clemson over Ohio St.