CLEMSON – Last week, Dabo Swinney told media members at the Smart Family Media Center that there would probably be “100 Hanafins” at Boston College’s Alumni Stadium to watch Burlington, Mass., native and Clemson safety Ronan Hanafin play the Eagles.
It was taken as hyperbole, obviously. How many Hanafins could there possibly be? 20? 30?
It turns out, according to the Hanafin wearing orange-and-purple in a Tuesday press conference, that the number almost doubled Swinney’s guess.
“I texted my dad earlier in the week because I was expecting about 100,” Hanafin said. “And then he texted me and said there would be 180 family and then another 50 friends on top of that.