CLEMSON — For a second Tuesday morning, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney thought the worst when he was told he could not vote in the elections.
“‘Dang! They’ve done voted me out of the state because I lost a game,” he said smiling during his weekly press conference. “We are 6-2 and 5-1 and they shipped me off.’”
Swinney and the Tigers are coming off a loss to Louisville this past Saturday, a game in which they were outplayed and outcoached in all facets. And though Swinney knows how serious Clemson fans take football in the state of South Carolina, he did not think it was this serious.
“I tried to do my best this morning and go vote and they told me I could not vote. That was quite an experience,” Swinney said with a chuckle.”
In all serious, though, Swinney’s inability to cast his vote had nothing to do with the Tigers’ loss to Louisville and more to do with his oldest son, Will Swinney.
After reporting to his designated voting spot, which had no one there at the time, Dabo Swinney waited to be told he could go vote.