Photo Gallery: Swinney comments on Clemson's ballroom practice

We are giving away a LIMITED EDITION Clemson National Championship football to one lucky subscriber in the new year. Sign up today to help us continue to grow! 

Yesterday, Clemson chose to hold their practice in the ballroom of their hotel due to inclement weather. Dabo Swinney was asked about it today during his press conference with the media. Swinney noted that Clemson had a chance to practice at the Saints’ facility, but didn’t want to disrupt the Tigers’ schedule.

“Yeah, we might have had the best practice we had all year. We had the same opportunity to go to the palatial Saints facility. It's just crazy how people put these narratives out there right away. We had the same exact opportunity to go there, but we were going to have to change our schedule and just didn't want to do that, and obviously the weather was nasty, so it was great. I mean, it's massive, and this was – it was a Thursday practice for us, and our Thursday practices are kind of jog-through anyway, and this was practice nine, day 10 in a row that we've been together, so it was even lighter than that, it was a lot of fun, it was great energy.”

Swinney went on to say that there is only so much you can do to get ready for a game like this.

“I mean, listen, both these teams are ready to play. You can only practice so much. It was a great practice. It was a great day. Thankful that we had a really good facility, and again, we could have done the exact same thing. I just chose not to change our schedule up and stay on course, and it's great.”