Great to be unashamed in thanking God on national TV. Who says we don’t have religious freedom in this country?
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lemson University football coach Dabo Swinney (ESPN video screenshot)
Upon winning the college-football championship Monday night to become the very first team in modern NCAA history to make a 15-0 season record, Clemson University coach Dabo Swinney provided the magnificence to God on national television.
“All the credit, all the glory, goes to the excellent Lord!” Swinney said.
Swinney had actually been asked by ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi, “Dabo, there are few coaches in any sport who reveal more joy than you do. How do you describe the joy of the moment?”
“Well that’s been my word all year, and I attempted to be deliberate with that, for me personally, pleasure comes from concentrating on Jesus, others and yourself,” Swinney answered.
“There’s numerous terrific coaches that are so deserving of a moment like this that never get the possibility to experience it, and to do it as soon as and now to get to do it again,” he added, “it’s a blessing, and it’s just simply the grace of the great Lord to let us experience something like this!”
Swinney likewise lauded his gamers, stating: “When you get a young group of people that believe, are enthusiastic, they like each other, they compromise, they’re devoted to a singleness of function, you better look out, excellent things can take place, and that’s what you saw tonight!”
“Hey listen I hope you get a little hope from us a little motivation that, hey if we can do it, anybody can do it!” Swinney stated.
“I stated this 2 years ago, I suggest, you can’t write a Hollywood script like this, only God can do this! And that’s a fact!” he continued. “And people may believe I’m insane or quacky whatever, just God can manage this, no Hollywood manufacturer can write it!”
Regarding the interesting script of Swinney’s backstory, National Evaluation supplied a glimpse into the coach’s individual history, noting:
His story truly is fantastic. The item of a broken house and an alcoholic daddy, he was a teen when his household lost their home to foreclosure. Swinney spent his senior year in high school moving from place to place. Throughout his freshman year at Alabama (yes, he’s playing his alma mater), his mom featured him to school. She had no place else to go. So at an age when most boys are taking pleasure in the time of their lives, Swinney was rooming with his mother, sharing a bedroom in a tiny house with another trainee.
Swinney’s public praise of God captured the attention of former NBA star Magic Johnson, who said, “I like Coach Swinney’s interview on ESPN offering magnificence to God and crediting his gamers. That was gorgeous.”
I enjoy Coach Swinney’s interview on ESPN giving splendor to God and crediting his gamers. That was stunning.
— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) January 8, 2019 Monday night’s champion video game was no contest, with Clemson pounding Alabama 44 to 16, as Clemson won its 2nd national title in 3 years, becoming the first string considering that Penn in 1897 to complete with a 15-0 record.
Swinney’s stand for God has actually drawn opposition in the past, specifically from the Flexibility From Religion Structure.
In 2014, the group faxed a letter to Clemson, declaring Swinney and his staff were incorrectly pushing gamers to accept Christianity.
Swinney denied the group’s claims, and launched a statement showing he would not pull back on his individual views:
Over the previous week or two, there has been a great deal of discussion of my faith. We have 3 rules in our program that everybody need to follow: (1) gamers must go to class, (2) they should offer a good effort and (3) they need to be good residents. It is as basic as that.
I have hired and coached players of numerous various faiths. Players of any faith or no faith at all are welcome in our program. All we require in the recruitment of any player is that he must be an excellent player at his position, fulfill the scholastic requirements, and have good character.
Hiring is really individual. Employees and their households want– and are worthy of– to understand who you are as a person, not simply what type of coach you are. I try to be a fine example to others, and I strive to live my life according to my faith.