{"id":947435,"date":"2026-07-16T22:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/947435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:09:15","slug":"dabo-swinney-addresses-tampering-in-college-football-dont-know-that-theres-been-much-fear-of-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/947435\/","title":{"rendered":"Dabo Swinney addresses tampering in college football: ‘Don’t know that there’s been much fear of consequences’"},"content":{"rendered":"

While evaluating tampering in college football, Dabo Swinney<\/a> stressed the need for repercussions. Speaking at ACC Football Kickoff, he pointed to the rules at the processional level to make his point.<\/p>\n

Swinney and Clemson<\/a> found themselves at the center of a tampering case this offseason after the Tigers head coach went public with allegations against Ole Miss<\/a> over the recruitment of Luke Ferrelli<\/a>. The school has been in touch with the NCAA and an investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

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There were other instances of schools saying their players heard from programs before officially entering the portal, as well. While the NCAA said it\u2019s considering changes to its tampering rules, Swinney argued it\u2019s not going away until there are stronger punishments. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s rules in all these other leagues. \u2026 There\u2019s financial consequences, there\u2019s suspensions, firings, whatever,\u201d Swinney told reporters in a breakout session<\/a>. \u201cThen, there\u2019s contracts and stuff like that. There\u2019s lots of things that can be put in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this point, it\u2019s rampant because there hasn\u2019t been consequences. I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s been much fear of consequences. We\u2019ve got to get some order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dabo Swinney: \u2018There has to be some type of order\u2019<\/p>\n

Earlier this offseason, speaking with On3\u2019s Chris Low<\/a>, Dabo Swinney made clear the situation isn\u2019t personal<\/a> against either Ferrelli or Golding. Instead, he just wants \u201cclarity\u201d about the rules in the modern era.<\/p>\n

During his session with reporters Thursday, Swinney also joined the voices calling for Congress to take action with regard to college athletics. The Protect College Sports Act<\/a> is going through the legislative process in the Senate, and Section 117 of the bipartisan bill includes language around tampering.<\/p>\n

If the bill becomes law, schools would not be able to contact athletes who are currently enrolled at another university. That help from Congress would be part of the plan to bring \u201corder\u201d to the landscape, Swinney said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re probably going to need some Congressional help for that,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cThere has to be some type of order put in place. The tampering is a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere needs to be consequences or you just say to heck with it, don\u2019t worry about it and call it like it is: the \u2018Wild Wild West.\u2019 One way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While evaluating tampering in college football, Dabo Swinney stressed the need for repercussions. Speaking at ACC Football Kickoff,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5981,7,49,48],"class_list":["post-947435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-dabo-swinney-90-pelham","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116931943733722121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947435","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=947435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}