CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney feels sophomore quarterback Cade Klubnik will one day, lead the Tigers back to the top of the ACC.
If that does come to fruition, Swinney will be able to point to several painful lessons learned by Klubnik.
The early slide on a fourth down in Durham has been eclipsed by the adlib in South Beach.
With the Tigers down 28-20 to Miami in the second overtime, Klubnik went off script on fourth down, pulling the football and keeping instead of running the play which was called which was a handoff to Shipley.
Klubnik was taken down well short of the goal line and Miami was sent into celebration mode.
Swinney has stood by his quarterback although the two have had a conversation about Klubnik’s decision to call his own number.
“What were you thinking? Why?”, were just two of the questions Swinney directed at Klubnik who to his credit, met the media on Monday and discussed his thought process.
“I was just trying to make a play. Thought I saw something, but I was wrong. Kind of like what I said after the game,” Klubnik said.