Dabo Swinney has always said he against the professionalization of college athletics and the devaluing of a college education.
“That is what I have always said,” Clemson’s head coach Dabo Swinney said Wednesday evening after the Tigers wrapped up practice. “If you professionalize college, you might as well coach the pros. I have always been for the value of education and the collegiate experience. I always have been. Nothing has changed.
“But I have always said I am hundred percent for a way to modernize the collegiate model. Modernize the scholarship. I love the fact that we have a stipend.