{"id":741510,"date":"2026-02-10T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741510\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:17:17","slug":"steve-spurrier-on-dabo-swinney-calling-out-ole-miss-someone-has-to-tell-him-there-are-no-rules-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741510\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Spurrier on Dabo Swinney calling out Ole Miss: ‘Someone has to tell him there are no rules now’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dabo Swinney<\/a> took some time to call out Ole Miss<\/a> over the transfer process of linebacker Luke Ferrelli<\/a> after Clemson<\/a> thought he was heading to their program. Swinney went on a long rant during a press conference, laying out exactly what happened. Reactions have filtered in since then, including from former coaches.<\/p>\n

Steve Spurrier<\/a> was asked about the situation, saying rules do not even exist anymore. The former South Carolina<\/a> head coach appeared to be a mix of serious and joking. But Spurrier thinks Dabo could be \u201cleft behind\u201d if he does not adapt to the modern way.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody would\u2019ve told Dabo by now there ain\u2019t no rules anymore\u201d Spurrier said<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s no rules! \u2026 I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re going to enforce any rules now or not. I think Dabo has learned now that he\u2019s got to start paying his players like everyone else is or you\u2019ll get left behind. You can complain. but I don\u2019t know how good it\u2019s gonna do. There\u2019s no rules. Just, somebody tell Dabo there\u2019s no rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clemson has actually been active in the NCAA transfer portal<\/a> this offseason, at least to their standards. Nine new faces will be joining the Tigers. All but one come from the defensive side of the ball, specifically the line of scrimmage. Getting better talent up front clearly was something Clemson wanted to work on this season.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Swinney thought Ferelli would be one of them. Instead, Ferelli will spend the 2026 season in Oxford under head coach Pete Golding<\/a>. Swinney feels like there was some big-time tampering that took place throughout the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s tampering. And then, there\u2019s blatant tampering,\u201d\u00a0Swinney said<\/a>. \u201cTampering 101 is when you\u2019re talking to kids who aren\u2019t in the portal, Tampering 201 is when you\u2019ve already negotiated the deal with the kids not in the portal.<\/p>\n

\u201cTampering 301 is when you\u2019ve got a kid who\u2019s going in the portal to sign somewhere, move there, going to classes and you\u2019re texting them while they\u2019re in class. That\u2019s like a whole \u2018nother level of tampering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, whenever Spurrier sees an opportunity to poke fun at somebody, especially a rival, he is going to take it. Spurrier is far from the first to say Swinney needs to adapt to the modern times of college football, whether it be NIL<\/a> or the transfer portal. And a safe assumption would be it will be far from the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dabo Swinney took some time to call out Ole Miss over the transfer process of linebacker Luke Ferrelli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,102083,49,48],"class_list":["post-741510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-luke-ferrelli-24-carlsbad","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116043700382017989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}