Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has 'zero tolerance' for domestic violence

During Tuesday's press conference, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney took a strong stance against domestic violence when asked for his thoughts on the subject, 

"Zero tolerance," Swinney said. "We’re not going to deal with that kind of stuff. We had a player who is no longer here, a situation that we had in that realm." 

Swinney also spoke about his personal experiences with domestic violence growing up. 

Via Sports Illustrated: 

I grew up around that. Listen, I had first-hand knowledge. You can go down here to Safe Harbor, which is an organization we support with our foundation. It’s an emergency shelter for women to go in the middle of the night. I’ve been there. I can’t tell you how many times as a kid I was thrown in a car and driven off to go sleep in a car somewhere or knock on somebody’s door and find a place to spend the night. I understand all of that.    

The sad part is, there are women being battered every day that people don’t know about. Never know their names, nothing. But it takes a guy that runs a football to create awareness that, really, it should’ve always had, in my opinion.

Football is a reflection of society, period. You name it, whatever’s going on in society, it’s in football, too. The good part is, it finally has gotten brought to light and it’s gotten attention. Hopefully it will create all kinds of great awareness and opportunities for a lot of women out there that are in bad situations. They are helpless. Until you’ve been in that situation, you just don’t know. It sounds easy, but it’s a very difficult thing to be a part of. Controlling, fearful and so forth. It’s great that there are places out there that provide shelter for women, provide counseling, whatever it may be. But it’s a society problem, in every sense of the word.