“I would fire a coach immediately if he called a player an N-word. No questions asked,” Swinney said Monday. “That did not happen. Absolutely did not happen. It has not happened. Coach Pearman was correcting D.J. and another player was talking to D.J., or D.J. was yelling at the player, and D.J. said something he probably shouldn’t have said; he said, ‘I blocked the wrong F’in N-word,’ — and Coach Pearman thought he was saying it to him, and he’s mad and he reacted and in correcting him he repeated the phrase.