Clemson opens up spring practice with another young team with goal of national title
CLEMSON, S.C. – In Dabo Swinney’s perfect world, his Clemson football team is the last off the field at season’s end and the first team to open practice every spring.
The past several years have been pretty darned close to perfect for Swinney, what with unprecedented success for the program, including four College Football Playoff championship game appearances in five years.
“It has kind of become our norm,” Swinney said of the late finishes and early starts. “We’re the last off and one of the first – if not the first – back on the field. And I love that.”
Swinney will have 108 players for the first day of practice Wednesday, making the Tigers the first Atlantic Coast Conference team to get into the spring of things, if you will.
Clemson will conduct 14 practices during the next 5½ weeks before capping the spring with the annual spring game April 4.
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