Top of the Hill: Dabo Swinney and Clemson's Rise to College Football Greatness
When Dabo Swinney took over Clemson football during the 2008 season, the program was considered a good one that couldn’t quite recapture the greatness of the Danny Ford era. But Swinney’s simple formula—faith, family, forgiveness, fortitude, and fun—pushed the Clemson football program to the next level, taking the Tigers to 10 bowl games while capturing four ACC championships, three College Football Playoff appearances, and most importantly,
two national championships.

Sports columnist Manie Robinson traces Swinney’s coaching ascension along the football team’s return to glory, going behind the scenes of one of the country’s powerhouse programs. Featuring the incredible stories of Clemson stars such as C.J. Spiller, Tajh Boyd, Sammy Watkins, DeAndre Hopkins, and Deshaun Watson, Top of the Hill is the definitive account of the Tigers’ return to the top of the college football landscape.
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Top of the Hill: Dabo Swinney and Clemson's Rise to College Football Greatness
When Dabo Swinney took over Clemson football during the 2008 season, the program was considered a good one that couldn’t quite recapture the greatness of the Danny Ford era. But Swinney’s simple formula—faith, family, forgiveness, fortitude, and fun—pushed the Clemson football program to the next level, taking the Tigers to 10 bowl games while capturing four ACC championships, three College Football Playoff appearances, and most importantly,
two national championships.

Sports columnist Manie Robinson traces Swinney’s coaching ascension along the football team’s return to glory, going behind the scenes of one of the country’s powerhouse programs. Featuring the incredible stories of Clemson stars such as C.J. Spiller, Tajh Boyd, Sammy Watkins, DeAndre Hopkins, and Deshaun Watson, Top of the Hill is the definitive account of the Tigers’ return to the top of the college football landscape.
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Top of the Hill: Dabo Swinney and Clemson's Rise to College Football Greatness

Top of the Hill: Dabo Swinney and Clemson's Rise to College Football Greatness

Top of the Hill: Dabo Swinney and Clemson's Rise to College Football Greatness

Top of the Hill: Dabo Swinney and Clemson's Rise to College Football Greatness

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Overview

When Dabo Swinney took over Clemson football during the 2008 season, the program was considered a good one that couldn’t quite recapture the greatness of the Danny Ford era. But Swinney’s simple formula—faith, family, forgiveness, fortitude, and fun—pushed the Clemson football program to the next level, taking the Tigers to 10 bowl games while capturing four ACC championships, three College Football Playoff appearances, and most importantly,
two national championships.

Sports columnist Manie Robinson traces Swinney’s coaching ascension along the football team’s return to glory, going behind the scenes of one of the country’s powerhouse programs. Featuring the incredible stories of Clemson stars such as C.J. Spiller, Tajh Boyd, Sammy Watkins, DeAndre Hopkins, and Deshaun Watson, Top of the Hill is the definitive account of the Tigers’ return to the top of the college football landscape.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629377407
Publisher: Triumph Books
Publication date: 09/17/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 1,052,066
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Manie Robinson has served as a sports reporter, columnist, and video producer for the Greenville News, a newspaper
and digital media company in the USA Today Network, since 2005. He has garnered multiple South Carolina Press Association
awards for video production breaking news, enterprise reporting, and opinion writing.

Table of Contents

Foreword Tajh Boyd ix

Author's Note xi

Prologue xiii

1 That Boy from Pelham 1

2 Dab and Kath 14

3 Lightning Strikes Twice 32

4 All In 51

5 Mr. Fix-It 65

6 The Buy-In 84

7 Fourth-and-16 96

8 The One That Got Away 107

9 The Legend of Deshaun 120

10 The Audition 133

11 15-for-15 139

12 BYOG 155

13 Pizza Party 164

14 Rather Later Than Sooner 178

15 Roll Tigers 181

16 Desert Disappointment 195

17 Chasing Greatness 202

18 Flirting with Disaster 214

19 Little Brother 223

20 Orange Crush 234

21 Home 246

22 Attacking National Champions 258

23 Built to Last 272

Epilogue 283

Acknowledgments 299

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