CLEMSON, S.C. — To his right, there are nap rooms, an arcade and a barbershop. Above him, one of a seemingly infinite number of flat screens. Below his feet, which are encased in sandals the size of milk cartons, bright purple carpeting.
Here in pigskin Disneyland—Clemson's new $55 million, 142,500-square-foot football operations center—the distractions are boundless. And yet amid all the shine and glam and state-of-the-art football tech, nothing commands your attention quite like Dexter Lawrence.
Even in a place this big, Lawrence seems impossibly large. Even in a place so accustomed to seeing athletically gifted football players patrol its magnificent hallways, Lawrence seems impossibly so.