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Did the ‘Swinney Effect’ drive Dino Babers’ contract extension?

While you were watching Avengers: Endgame and the NFL Draft over the weekend, Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney was getting paid. Dabo’s new 10-year $93 million deal pushes him beyond Jimbo Fisher’s deal for the highest value in college football. There were some funny parts to the deal like thinking that a buyout might scare Alabama from hiring Dabo away, and so many people mentioned how bad it makes Dabo’s previous comments about paying players look. But we’re more concerned with how this deal could impact the Syracuse Orange.