As third-ranked Clemson’s game week of practice in preparation for No. 12 Florida State began on Monday, head coach Dabo Swinney used an hourglass to send a message to his team.
Swinney held up the hourglass in front of his players, and flipped it over. As the sand trickled down, Swinney made a point about time and not taking it for granted.
“He turned (an hourglass) over, and said we all got the same amount of time, and there’s never enough of it,” Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables recounted on Tuesday. “You can’t turn it back over and start again.