There is one quote that Clemson’s Dabo Swinney just can’t seem to get away from.
More than a decade ago, Swinney answered a question about Northwestern college football players attempting to form a union.
“We try to teach our guys, use football to create the opportunities, take advantage of the platform and the brand and the marketing you have available to you,” Swinney said in 2014. “But as far as paying players, professionalizing college athletics, that’s where you lose me. I’ll go do something else, because there’s enough entitlement in this world as it is.”
It’s a quote that time and again has been taken out of context, with many trying to spin it to Swinney saying he was absolutely against NIL or players being paid.