If you watched the Miami-Clemson game this weekend then you saw the Dabo Swinney halftime speech about playing with class. However, we didn't catch the reason he decided to give that speech out in the open rathern than in the privacy of the locker room. When speaking with the media on Tuesday, Swinney gave us an explanation.
Dabo on teams using same tunnel at Sun Life Stadium: “It’s a terrible set-up. It’s bush league."
— David Hale (@DavidHaleESPN) October 27, 2015
For clarification, there is only one tunnel that leads to both locker rooms so the teams would have gone at the same time if he hadn't held his Tigers back.
Dabo said he held team back at halftime because he didn’t want them exiting w/Miami, thought too much bickering & extracurricular.
— David Hale (@DavidHaleESPN) October 27, 2015
There was some pre-game extracurricular activity so that was probably a good call by Dabo. He also talked about wanting to "kill his opponent" so that's fun.
Dabo: “I want to win. I want to kill the opponent. But I want to do it the right way.”
— David Hale (@DavidHaleESPN) October 27, 2015
I'm sure the Tigers could have done some damage in that tunnel to some Canes players, but the suspensions and bad rap is just not worth it.
[h/t CollegeSpun]
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