CLEMSON — It’s not unusual when you are one of the best teams in the nation to have your assistant coaches courted by other teams looking to fill vacancies within their coaching staffs. But that, strangely enough, is something that Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney has been able to avoid for the most part during the Tigers run over the last six years.
In fact, Swinney has lost only three assistant coaches during that time frame — offensive coordinator Chad Morris (2014), who left to become the head coach at Southern Methodist before becoming the head coach at Arkansas last week; defensive tackles coach Dan Brooks, who retired after last season, and defensive ends coach Marion Hobby, who took a position with the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars.