{"id":11866,"date":"2023-07-27T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2023-07-27T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T04:09:14","slug":"dabo-swinney-details-his-personal-approach-to-utilizing-the-ncaa-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/dabo-swinney-details-his-personal-approach-to-utilizing-the-ncaa-transfer-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dabo Swinney details his personal approach to utilizing the NCAA transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dabo Swinney<\/a><\/strong> has a very unique approach to the transfer portal at Clemson<\/strong><\/a>. The head coach is big on retention and high school recruiting.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean he won\u2019t use the transfer portal, but he built his program on the foundation of building within. Heck, it got him two national championships at Clemson.<\/p>\n

He said pretty much the same thing at the 2023 ACC Football Kickoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s different,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cIf I took a job today, and you\u2019re living in the portal because you got a lot of guys going. But I mean I\u2019m going on Year 15 and our program is very established and there\u2019s a lot of continuity. We have not lost any starters. You know, what puts us in the portal is starters leaving your program. We don\u2019t have single starter leave. And then the other thing is, if you have a bunch of guys leave after spring practice, you can\u2019t get high school kids. We\u2019ve had two guys leave in the past two years and they were both graduates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve recruited well \u2026 So we\u2019ve been a developmental program for a long time, we signed a couple of quarterbacks out of the portal that have filled a need for us. And we\u2019ve actually tried on a couple other guys along the way \u2026 But if you look at our roster and we just had a lot of retention. Like this year we had seven guys back that are all graduates, have master\u2019s degrees and I didn\u2019t anticipate any of them being back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, Swinney acknowledged if he started today, the portal would be a bigger part of his plan. But Swinney said Clemson likes to be a foundational and developmental program.<\/p>\n

He noted players wanting to come back to play for Clemson while earning Master\u2019s degrees. Now that\u2019s player retention.<\/p>\n

Regardless of his roster building, Swinney wants to keep it one game at a time in 2023, just like any other coach would.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo different. Every year we start over,\u201d Swinney said<\/a>. \u201cMan, we\u2019re just trying to win the opener, honestly. That\u2019s really \u2014 that\u2019s the same mindset. If your mindset is any different than that this time of year, you\u2019re probably not in the right head space. Man, you got to take it one at a time. You can\u2019t win two games until you win one. You certainly can\u2019t win ten until you win nine. It just all builds.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re not locked in on whatever being a gold standard or what other people say or label us outside of expectations. We\u2019re just locked in on what we focus on every day, what we control. That is just trying to win the day, us have a great camp, and we got a tough opener and try to win the opener. Then we\u2019ll go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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