Dabo Takes Spurrier Jab As Compliment

CLEMSON, S.C. (WOLO) — One man’s insult is another man’s compliment. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday that people need to calm down about the slight Steve Spurrier tossed his way Monday at a 21st birthday and get well celebration for Marcus Lattimore. “A lot of quotes came from across the nation (to wish Lattimore well),” Spurrier said. “I read one today from the head coach at our upstate school. You know, that school that used to beat us a lot that doesn’t beat us much anymore, that one. Anyway, usually when that coach up there talks about South Carolina it’s a bunch of garbage and a bunch of B.S. usually. But I have to agree with him. I have to with him on what he said the other day. He said, ‘Marcus Lattimore stands for what’s right about college football.'” In response today at his weekly press conference, Coach Swinney said he takes the Head Ball Coach’s jab as more of a compliment than anything else. “Look, you know it… People need to just kind of back off a ledge. I mean, personally, I really think he was trying to pay me a compliment, I think. I know it was kind of a roundabout way of getting there, it would be kind of like me telling my wife that, ‘I really think you should wear this dress, this dress looks great on you, you don’t look near as fat in that dress.’ So, it was kind of a roundabout way, but I take it as a compliment.” Just think, less than four weeks until kickoff before these two rivals meet on the gridiron on November 24th.