Clemson Tigers football coach Dabo Swinney said he would “go do something else” if players received pay for college sports in 2014. His comments didn’t age well.
Even the NCAA, which changed its policy on college athletes profiting off their likeness, has decided it can no longer cling to “amateurism” in college sports. The NCAA announced “college athletes will have the opportunity to benefit from their name, image and likeness beginning Thursday.” While players can’t get paid for play, they can sell their autographs, participate in paid appearances or sign endorsement deals.
So when the NCAA enacted change, former college athletes began to call him out on Twitter.
