Mayor Cook will be Arizona-bound

J-C Cook saw the Clemson Tigers win the national championship in 1981, and 35 years later he’s not going to miss the chance to see that happen a second time.  So, Cook, now the mayor of Clemson, will be one of the many Tiger fans boarding planes this week to fly to the Phoenix area.  Cook these days finds himself the mayor of still relatively small university town that is undergoing a building boom and, he says, gets calls almost every day from people interested in his area.  Like Cook, Dean Hybl sees a lot of good coming from the attention that a national title game brings to a team’s locale.  Hybl directs the region’s Ten At The Top organization that promotes quality of life issues in the upstate. “It does shine the spotlight not just on Clemson as the university but the entire Upstate and, in some respects, the entire state of South Carolina in a positive way,” Hbyl says.  More of his comments can be heard during ‘Community Sound Off’ this Sunday on 101.7/WGOG.