CLEMSON — Dabo Swinney had no conversations about canceling Clemson football’s spring game despite other programs doing so.
Clemson will host its spring game on April 1 (1 p.m. ET) at Memorial Stadium as other prominent Power Four programs have canceled or changed theirs. Some schools cited college football changes, including those regarding tampering, for their spring game alterations.
“Canceling a spring game ain’t going to stop tampering,” Swinney said. “We’re gonna need a lot more help than that.”
Clemson’s annual spring game will take place but with a changed broadcast format, according to Swinney. He said the game will be broadcast in-house instead of collaborating with a network. He hopes this will shorten the game, as opposed to having the previous lengthy ones that included TV commercials.
Swinney added that if Clemson had preseason games, as opposed to the first game being against LSU on Aug. 30, he would have been open to changing the spring game.
“I look at our scrimmage as an opportunity to expose your guys, teach them,” said Swinney, who hopes to also have a fan-day event. “I don’t know how you get better.”
Swinney has said previously that the spring game allows the freshmen and new additions to get the full game-day experience at Memorial Stadium in a game-like environment for the first time in the offseason instead of in the regular season.
Players perform “Tiger Walk,” where they get off team buses to walk 200 yards through a sea of family and fans to their locker room almost two hours before kickoff. They get to warm up on the field, do the “Walk of Champions,” and run down The Hill after touching Howard’s Rock.
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Publish date : 2025-03-01 01:05:00
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