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Clemson football Coach Dabo Swinney tells his Brian Kelly story
Clemson football Coach Dabo Swinney tells his Brian Kelly story
One would think that after meeting head-to-head four times, Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney would know LSU football coach Brian Kelly rather well.
That, however, is now in question after a vacation that Swinney took this offseason. And for that, when the two veteran coaches meet up pregame at the 50-yard line in Week 1 of the 2025 college football season, they will have an all-time laugh.
In a media availability on July 15, the 18th-year Tigers head coach shared a story of a hilarious mix-up with the head coach of his Week 1 opponent with a country music artist that has the same name while on vacation with his wife, Kathleen, his brother and sister-in-law in Grayton Beach, Florida.
“My sister-in-law, she’s saying, ‘Hey, Brian Kelly has a place. His wife has a gift shop right on the corner there in Grayton Beach.’ I’m like, ‘Oh really? That’s pretty cool.’ I had no idea,” Swinney said July 15 during a media availability. “… Me and Kath walk into the store and Kath buys something because she’s trying to support Mrs. Kelly or whatever we’re doing.”
Dabo Swinney got the wrong Brian Kelly.
In a hysterical clip, Swinney mistook Brian Kelly, LSU’s head coach, for Brian Kelley, who is best known for his work with Florida Georgia Line.
This clip is seriously a must watch.
Swinney and Kelly will have a laugh in August. pic.twitter.com/V6WVERuKyd
— Grayson Mann (@gray_mann21) July 15, 2025
The Swinneys would then continue walking around the store and headed outside to a backyard concert stage, where the two-time national championship coach took photos around/on the stage that had a sign of “Brian Kelley performing…
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Publish date : 2025-07-16 23:25:00
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