ESPN play-by-play commentator and former WCCP-FM personality Roy Philpott recently joined fellow Clemson alums Kelly Gramlich and Eric Mac Lain on the\u00a0Gramlich\u00a0&\u00a0Mac\u00a0Lain\u00a0show\u2019s Summer Guest Series.<\/p>\n
Philpott was asked a question about Dabo Swinney \u2013 specifically, does Philpott feel like the longtime Clemson head coach has been reinvigorated a little bit and is fine with where college football is right now in today\u2019s landscape with the transfer portal, etc.?<\/p>\n
Does Philpott think the 55-year-old Swinney still has a lot of years left ahead of him in coaching?<\/p>\n
As he answered the question, Philpott recalled meeting with Swinney in his office the week of last year\u2019s South Carolina game, when Philpott was preparing to call the game for ESPN.<\/p>\n
Philpott remembers wondering at the time, \u201cIs this something Coach Swinney is going to be doing five or 10 years from now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never ever would have thought I would have said it,\u201d Philpott said to Gramlich and Mac Lain. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that the joy was gone, but I think that there was a lot of criticism last year at various moments. \u2018You\u2019re not in the portal. Has the game passed Clemson by?\u2019 All that, that narrative was still out there. And even after the South Carolina game, that was out there and people were banging that drum.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I kind of questioned it for a moment, too. And then all of a sudden they win the ACC Championship. [Nolan] Hauser buries the 56-yard field goal, and they\u2019re in the playoff. They\u2019re at Texas, and you can kind of see the spark come back quickly. And then they kind of dabbled in the portal a little bit, and things started to change. And then [Cade] Klubnik kind of did his thing a little bit more after that, and I think [Swinney is] back in it, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Philpott added that heading into the 2025 season, \u201cit\u2019s a different Dabo than it was at the end of last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can hear that in his tone, in his body language, in every box that you could potentially check for a head coach,\u201d Philpott said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s reinvigorated,\u201d Philpott continued. \u201cI think he\u2019s re-energized. \u2026 The Dabo I hear now and I see now reminds me of the Dabo that we used to talk to back at (WCCP) in 2016. You do the math on what that equates to.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN play-by-play commentator and former WCCP-FM personality Roy Philpott recently joined fellow Clemson alums Kelly Gramlich and Eric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[5320,7,5324,5322,5321,5323,5325],"class_list":{"0":"post-79413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-clemson-insider-podcast","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-gymnastics","11":"tag-hero","12":"tag-noonan","13":"tag-track-and-field","14":"tag-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114572054047016948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}