Attempting to end some of the controversy that popped up around his program over the last week, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney released a 14-minute video Monday saying he supports the Black Lives Matter movement and defending how he dealt with assistant Danny Pearman, who uttered a racial slur during a practice in 2017.
In his first public acknowledgement of the incident, Swinney said he would "fire a coach immediately" if he called a player the "N-word" but said that is not what happened and that the context of the incident with former Clemson tight end D.