Swinney slams Ole Miss 'hypocrisy,' calls out school for 'whole other level of tampering' - ESPN

During a more than one-hour-long news conference Friday, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney ripped Ole Miss coach Pete Golding's alleged direct tampering with a Clemson player, lamented the current landscape of college football that encourages such malfeasance, and offered a manifesto of changes he believes are needed to provide basic guardrails for an out-of-control system.

Swinney lambasted Golding for allegedly making direct, repeated overtures to lure linebacker Luke Ferrelli int the transfer portal after Ferrelli had already signed a contract and enrolled in classes at Clemson, calling it a «straightforward case of tampering,» and imploring his colleagues in the coaching ranks to «be an example to young coaches in this profession and be people of integrity or shut your mouth and don't complain.»

Swinney referred to the current portal landscape as «flat-out extortion» in some cases, and referred specially to Ferrelli's case as a «blatant» example of how ugly things have gotten in a system that seemingly has no consequences for bad actors.

«This is a whole other level of tampering,» Swinney said of Golding and Ole Miss's communications with Ferrelli. «It's total hypocrisy.… This is a really sad state of affairs. We have a broken system, and if there are no consequences for tampering, then we have no rules and we have no governance.»

Swinney's comments come on the heels of a number of other high profile conflicts surrounding player movement in the transfer portal, including Washington QB Demond Williams Jr., who attempted to renege on a contract with the Huskies before returning to the program, and Duke QB Darian Mensah, who is now being sued by the school for breach of contract as he attempts to transfer after saying he would