CLEMSON, S.C. -- Maybe it's the hair. This much, Cade Klubnik is willing to concede. It's neatly trimmed, parted at the side, clean-cut, professional and, yeah, a pretty close resemblance to the cut worn by his coach, Dabo Swinney.
But Swinney isn't stopping with the hair. Klubnik's bone structure, his facial features, the way he carries himself, assured and energetic -- it's all downright Dabo-esque, he said. They're cut from the same DNA.
"He could be my son," Swinney said. "He hates when I tell him that."
Clemson's sophomore quarterback can argue with the notion he resembles his 53-year-old coach, but spend enough time around the two and the Klubnik-Swinney Venn diagram looks increasingly like a near-perfect circle.