re: What’s Clemson’s Current Winning Streak? Boom!

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boosters gave dabo a cushy real estate job to stop his squawking

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Never heard this before. Looks like it was a strength coach, and "months" of unemployment had passed in between.

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Months passed, Swinney still unemployed, and one day his phone rang. Rich Wingo, who had been Alabama’s strength coach while Swinney was a player, was now running a real estate development business called AIG Baker. It built shopping centers all over the country, and the firm was expanding. Wingo wanted Swinney, an optimist never intimidated by hard work, to join him. Swinney insisted that he belonged on a sideline, aware and in pursuit of his calling. Wingo reminded him that a coach without a team is just a man out of work.

How about this, Wingo told him: Give it a year, see how it goes, and learn the property business. While he untangled his future he’d earn an $80,000 base salary plus bonuses. Swinney, 31 at the time, remembered how hard it is to say no to his strength coach.

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Dabo Swinney was the best shopping center leasing agent in Alabama