CHARLOTTE — Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney fired back at a reporter on Thursday at the ACC Football Kickoff at the Westin Charlotte.
After telling the local Clemson media on Tuesday that his thoughts on professionalism and name, image and likeness have been taken out of context, a reporter said Swinney was “a little apprehensive about the NIL at first,” and he wanted to know what changed, which Swinney quickly explained was never the case.
“I have never been apprehensive about NIL. That is not the story,” Swinney said sternly. “People hear what they want to hear and then they write what they want to write, and people believe what they want to believe.