Dabo Swinney is the hottest coach in the country on the recruiting trail right now
Don’t look now but Dabo Swinney is red-hot.
Obviously the Clemson football coach has had stretches where he was considered one of the hottest coaches in the country like when he made four national championship games in a five-year span and two two titles in a three-year stretch. But this recent stretch is more for off-field momentum even though his Tigers did just make the playoff this past season, ending a three-year drought.
This recent hot streak has come on the recruiting trail and honestly, no coach in the country has had a successful early-spring run like he’s had.
Just last week, Swinney had a borderline top-30 recruiting class in the country for 2026. It was still early, but he had just six commits with the highest being three-star tight end Tayveon Wilson.
It was still very early, but some Clemson fans were concerned that this class was taking a minute to really take off, especially after the first playoff berth for the program since 2020. But all it took was one weekend to get Clemson out of that mediocre range for Power Four teams and into the top 10 and now inside the top five after a monster weekend.
In fact, Swinney landed four-star tackle Adam Guthrie on March 7 and then proceeded to add four-stars Grant Wise, Naeem Burroughs, Connor Salmin, and Chancellor Barclay (great name, by the way).
In one weekend, Swinney went from having a top-35 class to having the No. 3 recruiting class in the country with five commitments of four-star status.
There’s not a hotter coach in the country right now and with spring ball being fired back up, I wouldn’t doubt that we see even more commitments in the coming weeks. And official visit season hasn’t even started yet.
Strap in, Tiger fans.
