Clemson coach Dabo Swinney once said that if college athletes got paid, he’d find something else to do.

He seems to be softening on that stance quite a bit, especially after the NCAA voted to allow athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses.

In response to that ruling, Swinney said he hopes something positive will come from it (via GreenvilleOnline.com):

“I’m hopeful that something positive can come from it,” Swinney said. “It’s really created great conversation and it sounds like they’re getting a group of smart people together to figure out what they need to do to address it, but keep it within the collegiate model and value education and all those things.

“I think it’s a good step. It sounds like they’re serious about trying to get the right people in the room to figure out the parameters or best case to move forward.”

As Swinney mentions, there are sure to be some debates about how to work the NIL model into the collegiate model (which seems like mixing oil and water), so this process is far from over.

However, it seems more people who were once against the idea (like Swinney) are starting to come around.