Dabo Swinney details what role Chad Morris will have on Clemson staff

Chad Morris is back in a familiar place. The former Clemson offensive coordinator and Arkansas head coach has once again joined Dabo Swinney‘s staff and will be working with the Tigers in a special assistant/consulting role.

Morris’ background is offense, but he will be working with both sides of the ball while at Clemson.

Swinney spoke on Thursday at the 2023 ACC Football Kickoff event about what Morris’ role will be with the Tigers.

“It’s kind of like what we did with Ted Roof a couple of years ago. I mean he’s going to go watch Chandler [Morris] play. But he still wants to be involved,” Swinney said. “He can bring a lot of value. He’s going to be like a special assistant with football. He’s actually going to work with the defense and the offense. He’s going to just stay a week ahead and really just add a lot of value from another lens. This guy’s been a really, really good offensive coordinator. He’s been a head coach. So just got a lot of experience.”

Chandler Morris is the son of Chad Morris and is expected to be the starting quarterback at TCU this fall.

Chad Morris will be able to scout upcoming opponents and work ahead, while also still taking time off when he needs to in order to watch his son.

Morris was close to joining the Clemson program earlier this year before sustaining an injury.

“It’s one of those things where he probably would’ve come back this spring, but he had a bad horse accident and broke his leg really bad,” Swinney said. “Had to have a bunch of rods and screws put into one leg. So still kind of recovering from that. But he’s a very cheap, high qualified guy to have hanging around.”

Morris had not visited Clemson since 2014 and as he has learned, a lot has changed. The Allen N. Reeves Football Complex was completed in 2017 and several other facility upgrades have been made.

“He’s always loved Clemson, loved his time here. It’s crazy, he hasn’t been back here since the day he left. He left the Sunday after the South Carolina game in 2014. He left the next day to take the SMU job and he hasn’t been back since,” Swinney said.

“So it’s changed a lot since then. A lot has happened, obviously. He hasn’t seen our facility and a lot of things. So it’s been really good just to have him back around, and again, he’ll bring a lot of value for sure. Hopefully we can help him reset and get back going and get some positive things going back in his direction.”