Bless Dabo Swinney. The man is not quick to adopt new ways of doing things.

Clemson Tigers fans have been growing somewhat frustrated about what this means for the football front, given Swinney’s disdain for the transfer portal and his resistance to fair player compensation over the years.

Yet the head coach’s disinterest in modernity can also be charming, as on Tuesday when he explained to reporters how he had “finally figured out” how to install YouTube TV on his phone.

Dabo Swinney “got YouTube TV.”

“I finally figured out how to get that damn app on my phone.”

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“I’m a huge YouTube TV fan now,” the Clemson coach told reporters. “I finally figured out how to get that frickin’ app on my phone. It’s like an act of Congress. You have to have birth certificates and all kinds of stuff to get some of this stuff. I don’t know all the codes, like, ‘Who’s your carrier?’ I mean, there’s some crazy information on there.”

College football head coaches, they’re just like us. Or at the very least, they’re just like our parents.

Now that Dabo has sorted out his streaming subscription, his week off has become a lot more enjoyable.

“I have YouTube TV and man, it was awesome,” he continued. “I had my phone on. I had my iPad on with four screens. And I had the TV on… We had a lot of teams playing and we were going to play. And so that’s basically what I did all day. I just watched baseball all day and it was awesome.”

If the folks at YouTube TV don’t immediately apply for a license for a new ad, we don’t know what will.

Who is going to explain to Dabo what Venu Sports is?

(Marc Whiteman)