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What will the NCAA do in response to the first state challenging its rules on amateurism, which limit athlete compensation to the full cost of being a student? Sports What’s next for NCAA and college athletics now that SB 206 is law? The California Senate Bill 206, signed into law Monday, would not put players on salary, but it would allow them to be compensated for use of their name, image and likeness (NIL) through endorsement deals with third parties. When Dabo says pro, he means players being paid a salary. I want young people who value that experience, who value education.”Įveryone has their own definition of what is amateur and what is pro, the NCAA included. And I’ve never wanted that for my players. “I saw a lot of great football players that the crowd roared for and this and that, and then all of a sudden I saw them at 30. “My life changed through education,” Swinney says. The challenge is keeping that fire ablaze now that he’s made it. He naturally assumed an underdog role his whole life.
Like many of his players, Dabo’s upbringing came with few built-in advantages he walked onto the Alabama football team and emerged as his family’s first college graduate. That he can be portrayed as a coach who doesn’t look out for his players’ best interests has come as a shock to Dabo, who got his nickname because his older brother, Tripp, called him “dat boy” as a toddler. But nationally, with a groundswell of political momentum growing out of the California legislature for college athletes to be able to profit from their name, image and likeness, Swinney comes off like an anachronism. “Well, OK, I don’t set a market.”Īt Clemson, Swinney has been the right coach at the right time, turning the Tigers from lovable losers - “Clemsoning” used to be a verb used for choking a big game away - into the foil of Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty. “Everybody says, ‘Well, OK, you make all this money,’ ” Swinney says. When Swinney and Clemson agreed to a 10-year, $93-million extension in April, the fattest total contract of any university employee in the country, those five-year-old comments resurfaced, with Swinney labeled as entitled.
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