Twitter wants Dabo Swinney to retire since college athletes are getting paid
By Scott Rogust
Twitter recalled when Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said he would walk away if college athletes were to get paid.
Thursday was a huge day for college athletics, as student athletes are now officially allowed to receive compensation for their name, image or likeness (NIL). Of course, we are in the day of social media where receipts are held onto and released to the world. The one individual who felt the wrath of said receipts is Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney.
Back in 2014, Swinney suggested he would go “do something else” if college athletes were to get paid like professionals. So on July 1, the day in which the NCAA’s NIL rules officially went into effect, Twitter users began wondering if Swinney would walk away from his Clemson head coaching gig.
Didn’t Dabo say he was going to quit if athletes could get paid?🤔
— marlonhumphrey.eth (@marlon_humphrey) July 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/BarstoolOSU/status/1410604209234268183
Happy Dabo Swinney retirement day. https://t.co/UzUMaDzHjj
— Mike Rutherford (@CardChronicle) July 1, 2021
Let’s see if Dabo has the guts and integrity to follow through on his previous threats https://t.co/u8x5quTOAc
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) July 1, 2021
Dabo Swinney walking out of the Clemson facility for the last time after Twitter spends the rest of the day pulling receipts https://t.co/vmzL8K3cmm
— Clint Lamb (@ClintRLamb) July 1, 2021
Has Dabo Swinney resigned yet?
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) July 1, 2021
Go ahead and throw my name into the hat for the Clemson Head Coaching job. Dabo said if student athletes starting making money he would go do something else!! Shoot, Clemson you can come get your boy for half the money. You know.. since it’s my very first coaching job!
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) July 1, 2021
Dabo Swinney: “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.”
— Brent (@HJhughes79) July 1, 2021
Welp......nice knowing ya Dabo https://t.co/fw5Z1NwUUv
Twitter this morning in regards to Dabo Swinney: pic.twitter.com/gdsH7k80cy
— SEC Scenario Poin (@cfb_pollmaster) July 1, 2021
Reminder that if Dabo doesn’t quit college football today he may be a liar https://t.co/2i7Zi6yrBk
— Unbiased Ev (@DoubleVodkaDon) July 1, 2021
Dabo Swinney could not escape Twitter receipts after the NCAA’s name, image and likeness policy went into effect on July 1
Swinney is lucky he does not have a Twitter account, because if he did, he’d probably be logged out of it for the foreseeable future.
Even though Swinney was opposed to “professionalizing college athletics” in past comments and has not spoken publicly since the NIL legislation went into effect on Thursday, Clemson running back Darien Rencher said that Swinney is supportive of the new policy during an appearance on ACC Network’s “Packer and Durham Show.”
“He’s excited,” Rencher said, via ESPN’s David M. Hale. “He kind of catches some things that get out of context, but he’s excited for us to make the most of the opportunity. He’s equipping us with everything as much as they can to make sure we have as much content and as much connections as we can. I feel like Clemson’s been set up to win for a very long time and now we kind of get released to be all we can be.”
The odds of Swinney walking away from Clemson are extremely low, especially with Rencher’s comments about his head coach’s feelings about the new NIL policy in the NCAA. Still, that did not stop social media users from having fun with his past comments.
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