Dabo Continues to Jab Gamecocks and Spurrier

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WOLO) — It was supposed to be a press conference addressing the ACC Championship game between Clemson and Virginia Tech. Well, it eventually was, but as most fans and media predicted, the first question on Friday to Tiger head coach Dabo Swinney was about his barking remarks he made towards the Gamecocks and Steve Spurrier on Thursday night. “I really don’t have a comment. It is what it is,” Swinney said Friday. “I think I heard it wasn’t said (by Spurrier). That’s great. Awfully convenient.” Swinney blasted Steve Spurrier Thursday night because it was told to him that Spurrier had a negative comment towards Clemson last week. The miscommunication from the Gamecocks was that Spurrier had a comment along the lines of “…we might not be LSU or Alabama, but we ain‘t Clemson, folks.” “He is exactly right, they ain‘t Alabama, they ain‘t LSU and they certainly are not Clemson,” Swinney said Thursday night. “That is why [North] Carolina is in Chapel Hill, USC is in California and the university in this state always has been and always will be Clemson. It‘s right here in Clemson, S.C. You can print that. Tweet that.” Spurrier and the Gamecocks athletic office have told numerous print outlets that Spurrier never said that statement in a public forum. Spurrier did acknowledge he compared his team to LSU and Alabama saying the Gamecocks are not them, but added he never said anything about Clemson in that statement. “I know this, that if my media put something out that I said and if it was nationally perceived that I said it, I promise you, I would correct it,” Swinney added during the Friday fall-out. “I would make sure that it was made known that especially something that is derogatory that I wouldn’t want my name attached to, I would make sure that it was clear, or I’d pick up the phone. That’s really all there is to it. Certainly hasn’t been any rebuttal.”