Dabo Swinney joins Josh Pate - Pate State Speaker Series
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney is the latest guest on the Pate State Speaker Series.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:18.0 | First off, this is big. |
| 0:20.6 | We've hunted it for a while. White whale. Devil's going to be with us. White whale. Yeah, right. But I wanted to come over here because you don't get on the internet much. I've been on the internet. So I've heard some rumblings. I've seen some headlines. Looks really negative. So I just come and hear it from you. What's the reality here right now? Oh man, you ain't getting nothing to positive for me. That's just who I am, you know. But it's |
| 0:43.7 | awesome. I mean, I feel like I've made the big time. Like, like literally. And congratulations to you. |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, what you've been able to accomplish and just kind of betting on yourself |
| 0:54.2 | pretty cool, you know. I didn't know who you were. And then all of a sudden, you're like, |
| 0:59.8 | you're everywhere. It'd be, if you're a sports guy, it'd be impossible to not know who you are. |
| 1:04.6 | So, you know, awesome. And I didn't know if you'd ever, I don't know if you've ever called. |
| 1:10.6 | So he said, hey, Josh Powell, the bald guy, yes. |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, him. |
| 1:15.4 | We want to meet with him? |
| 1:16.5 | Absolutely, let's meet with him. |
| 1:18.2 | And so, you know, glad to have you at Clemson, but, you know, it's, man, it's fun. |
| 1:24.0 | It's always fun. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm a passionate guy about what I do and who I do it with and where I do it. |
| 1:31.9 | And just happens to be here in Clemson. And, you know, it's a, it's just a journey, you know, just enjoying the journey. It's all good. Everything's good. |
| 1:42.4 | And so people who know me, they know I'm a half-full guy all the time. And that's kind of how I choose to live my life. I think it's a choice. Yeah, I think that perception, if you're a fan, not even a Clemson fan, let's just say you're college football fan. You view a season from the outside. The only thing you have to frame it against is whatever your |
| 2:01.1 | expectation was. Yeah, yeah. So, like, if I expect the Clemson to play for a national title, |
| 2:05.6 | and then they win seven games, well, I don't really hear from you for a long time. Like, |
| 2:10.0 | the season's over, and I know he's down there doing something, but I don't know what he's |
| 2:13.7 | doing doing. And so you may get this thought in your mind that, oh, man, I bet they're, |
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