CLEMSON, S.C. — One of Dabo Swinney’s favorite moments recruiting this year was visiting the home of five-star linebacker Tre Lamar just outside of Atlanta. When Swinney was looking for Lamar’s house, he figured it was the one flying a Clemson flag on its front porch; rather, it was one of Lamar’s neighbors.
But Swinney being Swinney, he figured he’d check in on those unsuspecting Clemson fans just to see how they’d react to an unannounced visit from the head coach. As he told them when they opened the door, “You never know who’s going to knock.”
The relentlessly positive Swinney has never been afraid to knock on a few doors in recruiting just to see if he could get an answer, even when Clemson wasn’t residing in the neighborhood of the elite college football programs.