Dabo Swinney held a press conference Wednesday, meeting with the media as he usually does.
This time around, things were different as Swinney was asked a massive question… Barbie, or Oppenheimer? As you’d expect from the Clemson head coach, Swinney hasn’t seen either.
“I don’t know either one of them,” Swinney said. “I’ve heard of the movies, but I haven’t seen either one.”
Swinney did mention, however, that he would likely see Oppenheimer due to his life experiences. When Swinney was an assistant coach with the Alabama Crimson Tide, he recruited the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, area, which is famously home to Manhattan Project facilities.
“When I was at Alabama, my recruiting area was East Tennessee and so I had Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which they called that the ‘Hidden City,’” Swinney said. “I remember the first time I was going there, I’m like, ‘What?’ And that was the first time I learned that… So, that was a pretty fascinating thing. And shoot, Tee Higgins is from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. But I signed a couple kids at Alabama from Oak Ridge, and so I always enjoyed going over there. But I always felt like OK, what’s down that road, you know. Some of these shady roads, man, you’re just like OK… I mean, they built the atomic bomb there or whatever. But it was called the ‘Hidden City.”
So, what about Barbie? That’s one Swinney is fine with missing out one.
“But anyway, that’d probably be the one,” Swinney said of Oppenheimer. “I’d probably pass on the other one. Y’all give me the Cliffs Notes on that one.”
About what you would expect out of Swinney, he is one of the best head coaches in the game and as entertaining as they come.
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