NCAA investigates after Dabo Swinney raises transfer portal tampering accusations against Ole Miss

The Indiana Hoosiers defeated the Miami Hurricanes past week to enactment a headdress connected the assemblage shot season.

Just 1 time earlier the transportation portal model closed for players who competed successful the nationalist championship, Clemson Tigers caput manager Dabo Swinney sounded the alarm implicit what helium sees arsenic a deficiency of governance successful the sport.

During a wide-ranging quality conference, Swinney specifically raised concerns astir Ole Miss caput manager Pete Golding’s alleged repeated, unauthorized interaction with Clemson linebacker Luke Ferrelli. Swinney suggested Golding was moving to get Ferrelli’s sanction into the transportation portal.

On Tuesday, the NCAA contacted Clemson astir Swinney's accusations and launched an probe into the matter.

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Clemson Tigers caput manager Dabo Swinney details transportation portal events involving linebacker Luke Ferrelli portion seated adjacent to diversion manager Graham Neff during a Jan. 23, 2026, quality league astatine the Smart Family Media Center successful Clemson, South Carolina. (Ken Ruinard / USA Today Co / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"The NCAA volition analyse immoderate credible allegations of tampering and expect afloat practice from each progressive arsenic is required by NCAA rules," NCAA vice president of enforcement Jon Duncan said successful the connection obtained by The Athletic. "We volition not remark further connected immoderate ongoing investigation."

The recently adopted 15-day model for different FBS and FCS athletes, including postgraduate transfers, present opens the time aft the CFP quarterfinals end. There are built-in exceptions for players who acquisition a caput coaching change.

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"This is simply a full different level of tampering," Swinney said successful notation to Ole Miss' alleged communications with Ferrelli. "It's full hypocrisy. ... This is simply a truly bittersweet authorities of affairs. We person a breached system, and if determination are nary consequences for tampering, past we person nary rules and we person nary governance."

Ferrelli, a highly sought-after recruit, elected to participate the portal successful January. He did sojourn Ole Miss, but yet agreed to a declaration and enrolled successful classes astatine Clemson. However, soon aft classes astatine Clemson started, Swinney said shot squad wide manager Jordan Sorrells said, "Ole Miss was going hard" aft the linebacker. 

Clemson caput manager Dabo Swinney looks connected during an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Louisville connected Nov. 2, 2024, successful Clemson, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman)

Sorrells aboriginal asked an Ole Miss authoritative to get the schoolhouse to extremity each connection with Ferrelli. According to Swinney, the Ole Miss authoritative made it wide helium did not enactment tampering. On Jan. 15, Ferrelli asked to beryllium entered into the portal with the volition of transferring to Ole Miss.

The adjacent day, Clemson submitted a ailment to the NCAA detailing alleged "blatant" tampering. As of past Friday, Clemson diversion manager Graham Neff made it wide that ineligible enactment was not disconnected the table. 

"I'm not trying to get anybody fired, but erstwhile is capable enough?" Swinney said. "If we person rules, and tampering is simply a rule, past determination should beryllium a effect for that. And shame connected the adults if we're not going to clasp each different accountable."

Pete Golding watches during lukewarm ups anterior to Ole Miss' crippled against the Furman Paladins astatine Vaught-Hemingway Stadium connected Aug. 31, 2024 successful Oxford, Mississippi. (Petre Thomas/USA TODAY Sports)

Swinney expressed interest astir the connection unchecked tampering could nonstop to aboriginal assemblage shot players. 

"This is not astir a linebacker astatine Clemson," helium said. "I don't privation anyone connected our squad that doesn't privation to beryllium here. But it's astir the adjacent kid and the adjacent kid and the connection that's being sent with conscionable blatant tampering being allowed to hap without consequences. This isn't astir our program. It's astir assemblage football."

Swinney said the existent assemblage shot clime invites misconduct and indispensable beryllium fixed. The two-time nationalist championship-winning manager backed moving the transportation portal model from January to the spring. He besides called for outpouring shot to lucifer an NFL team's OTAs and projected limits connected escaped transfers.

Fox News Digital contacted Ole Miss' diversion section for remark but did not instantly person a response.

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A grounds 4,900 FBS players and much than 3,200 FCS student-athletes entered the transportation portal during the 2024-25 world year.

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