Clemson Football: An overview of the 2019 summer events

The summer is full of events, especially pertaining to recruiting. Here’s an overview of some of the summer events for Clemson football in 2019.

Though Clemson football coaches won’t be visiting potential prospects, recruiting still continues throughout the summer.

The summer- other than a couple of weeks that are completely dead- is known as a “quiet period” on the recruiting calendar. A quiet period is known as a time where coaches can’t have face-to-face contact with prospects unless they are visiting the campus. They can’t visit the recruit’s high school or house, but still can contact them by phone, email, etc.

With the quiet period comes football camps, recruiting events and things of that nature for programs around the country.

Here’s an overview of the recruiting events, and other events for Clemson football throughout the summer.

Summer Events:

• Dabo Swinney Football Camp

There are two High School camps scheduled for this summer. The first session will be held June 4-6 and the second will be from June 11-13.

Typically, the first session is when you see the vast majority of elite prospects come through the camp. There are several targets expected to be in Clemson for the camp, including some of the top targets remaining in the 2020 cycle.

Other than getting evaluations on prospects for the 2020 class, the Clemson football camp also allows the coaching staff a chance to begin setting their board for the following cycle. You’ll see the coaches begin to really evaluate kids from the 2021 class and start to make offers shortly thereafter based off of their film and camp performances.

Typically, we also see a couple of guys in the current class become higher targets after camp. The coaching staff is able to set in motion their board for the remainder of the current cycle and identified the players that they want to target heading down the stretch.

• Dabo Swinney Media Golf Outing

Typically in mid-to-late July, we’ll have the Dabo Swinney Media Golf Outing. After a couple of months of not hearing from the coach, Swinney makes himself available to the media- as well as all the other coaches- for an afternoon an evening of golf and interviews.

It’s the unofficial kickoff to the new season and really sets the tone for things beginning to pick back up with Clemson football news and notes.

• ACC Football Media Kickoff

The 2019 ACC Football Kickoff will take place July 17-18 in Charlotte, NC. This is a time where media members are able to interview selected players and coaches from around the conference.

Each team picks two players- one on offense and one on defense- to represent their program alongside their head coach.

It’s a good time to gather information about the rest of the conference and upcoming opponents for the 2019 season.

• All-In Cookout

An official date hasn’t been announced yet, but the All-In Cookout will take place in late July.

The cookout is the premiere recruiting event of the year for Clemson football and usually features the vast majority of Tiger commits, as well as top targets. The event normally draws in at least a couple of new commitments and is great for future teammates to interact and recruit prospects to join their class.