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Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney holds up the trophy after Clemson beat Kentucky 21-13 to win the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Meanwhile his counterpart on the other sideline, Rich Brooks says he's "80%" sure he's done. We'll wait 24 hours for the change of heart.

Back to Clemson. Here was our introduction to Swinney earlier this fall.

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Dabo Swinney is experiencing widespread support early on in his tenure as Clemson University's head football coach. A local historian helps to explain how Swinney has touched the community in a short period of time.

Full transcript below:

Clemson student:

We love Dabo.

Clemson student:

I love him. He's so cute.

Clemson has fully embraced new head coach Dabo Swinney. A story to illustrate why...

Dr. R.C. Edwards was Clemson University's president for 21 years.

Trent Allen, Clemson historian:

Dr. Edwards was dying basically. And he was in the hospital. A friend and I went to see him and he couldn't quit talking about the coaching changes. Right about the time of the coaching change a year ago. He said, "That Dabo. That Dabo is special. I love that guy." And all that... so my friend and I both emailed Dabo the next day and said, "He couldn't quit talking about you. It would be great if you could go by and see him. He's not going to last too much longer."

The following day, he did and he let us know that Dr. Edwards was doing everything humanly possible to get out of the bed because he thought the coach had come to get in to go see the team. And Dr. Edwards since the '70's, probably maybe even earlier, every single sporting event when the team left team he was there to give them a fist pump.

And so he let us know. He said if you can make it happen we'll get Dr. Edwards to see the team one more time. And so Doc Hoover, a former trainer at Clemson, arranged Clemson EMS to go get him from the hospice house on the Friday before the South Carolina game and put him in his usual spot where he was to see the team off and the next thing you know they were over there. James Davis come over, CJ (Spiller), they would all come over and talk to Dr. Edwards.

And that was on Friday. Dr. Edwards passed away the next Wednesday. At his funeral, his grandson said his grandmother was at the pearly gates waiting on Dr. Edwards and said, "Where you been?" And he said, "I had to wait and make sure everything was alright."

Taking that to me he felt that Dabo had everything under control.

Clemson beat South Carolina the weekend before President Edwards died. The Tigers are on track for their first ever trip to the ACC title game in Swinney's first full year as head coach.

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Clemson University students engage in a form of fighting similar to what is known as “Belegarth,” the night before the Tiger football team takes on Florida State in Clemson, South Carolina.

The students, known as the Tiger Knights of Appalacia, build their own foam weapons and meet three times a week on the Clemson campus.

Full transcript below:

Daniel Kolb, Group member:

We get all sorts of reactions. You get the people that are saying, "You guys are crazy," and you got the people saying, "We wanna be crazy like y'all."

They ask us how you join and we toss them a sword and say, "You're in."

Alexander Petraroli, Group Founder:

If you get cut in the arm by a sword, it goes behind your back and you lose it. If you cut the leg, you take a knee and if you lose it. If you lose any combination of two limbs, you die. Or if you get hit in the body, you die.

It's good if you want to lose weight too.

Group member:

I've gone from 270 (pounds) to 230 in the course of what, January? I used to couldn't run. I can run now.

Kolb:

Or if you want another reason to be out cold during the game other than drinking. This will work just fine.

Petraroli:

Hey guys, we're re-spawning in 5, okay?

Kolb:

We get all kinds of people. You get the occasional drunk, which is why we stopped fighting on football Saturdays.

Petraroli:

It's a big social thing too, we do a lot of stuff together.

Kolb:

But a lot of us just started because this is something we've always wanted to do.

The Tiger Knights of Appalacia fight 3 afternoons per week until they lose sunlight or feeling in a precious organ. Whichever comes first.

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