Dabo Swinney has proudly carried a Discover Card since 1989, and with good reason. Without Discover, Swinney might have never gone back to school at Alabama, earned a scholarship, or gone into coaching.
TigerNet has been running a selection of Swinney stories this week, and our latest installment centers on an early fall day in the summer of 1989. Swinney was set to enter his second year at the University of Alabama, and because he was a walk-on and not on scholarship with the Crimson Tide, he was responsible for his own tuition and rent.
He was behind on both.