Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney has been the subject of criticism over the last week or so, so he released a nearly 14-minute video in an effort to address those criticisms.
First, Swinney addressed an incident that occurred at a Clemson practice in 2017 between assistant coach Danny Pearman and D.J. Greenlee, who played at Clemson from 2013-17. The incident was brought to the public eye by another former player, Kanyon Tuttle, who tweeted that Swinney “allowed a coach to call a player the N-word during practice with no repercussions.”
Tuttle’s tweet came on the heels of Swinney’s Monday media teleconference in which he addressed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent protests and unrest around the country.