MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Xavier Dye certainly knows how to make a good impression.
Three years ago, Dye was teaching and coaching at a South Carolina high school when he got a call from his old college coach, Dabo Swinney. Swinney had remembered Dye’s work ethic as a player and assumed it would translate well to coaching.
The Clemson head coach had an offer Dye very easily could have refused – the role of graduate assistant coach, which comes with a lack of glamor and relatively low pay.
“Coach hired me away from high school and was like ‘It’s gonna be a pay cut,’” Dye recalled.