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“Dat Boy” Swinney New Tigers Head Coach

By fitsnews • on November 30, 2008

You can get rid of that pesky “interim” tag.

After a remarkable six-game stretch that included a pummeling of Steve Spurrier’s allegedly superior South Carolina team, Dabo Swinney will be named Clemson University’s new head football coach tomorrow, according to the website Rivals.com.

From the story:

Less than 24 hours after Clemson defeated arch-rival South Carolina 31-14 in Death Valley, Tiger athletics director Terry Don Phillips wasted no time in meeting with 39-year old Dabo Swinney and Swinney’s agent. As a result of those talks, which began in the mid-afternoon hours and extended into the evening, the interim tag will soon be removed from Swinney’s title.

Good for Swinney … as we noted yesterday, he totally earned this opportunity.

Ironically, the selection of a young coach like Swinney is one of several recommendations we made for South Carolina’s struggling football program at the conclusion of last year’s disappointing 6-6 season.

Obviously, it’s too early to tell how wise a decision this will be for Clemson in the long-run, but one thing is for sure … Dabo definitely outcoached Spurrier in Saturday’s game.