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Dabo Swinney's extraordinary ability to lift a football program is known to everyone who even casually follows the sport.

But what about his gift, equally extraordinary, of lifting the spirits of those who are going through periods of struggle?

These to-date unpublicized gestures -- random acts of Dabo, if you will -- are very much worthy of being documented in a more official, complete form.

So Tigerillustrated.com reached out to a number of people who have shared their own behind-the-scenes stories with us.

ALSO SEE: LETTERS FROM DABO - Part 1 | LETTERS FROM DABO - Part 2 | LETTERS FROM DABO - Part 3

Here is Part 4.

Joe Sanders remembers being whisked away from his running club as an 8-year-old, arriving at his grandparents' house and seeing a line of cars in the driveway.

Family members weren't speaking and had tears in their eyes.

Something was wrong. Really wrong.

For three years his father had been suffering from Trigeminal neuralgia, caused by a blood vessel in the face squeezing against a nerve to create one of the most painful conditions known to mankind.

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Brad Sanders had undergone surgery less than three weeks earlier but contracted bacterial meningitis and was suffering brain swelling. He was on life support.

And now, in that living room at their grandparents' home, Joe and his older sister Haley were being told their father wasn't coming home.