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Dabo Swinney dismisses canceling spring games to fight tampering in transfer portal
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Dabo Swinney hardly ever talks with a filter, and so when the Clemson head coach says he doesn’t plan on cancelling spring games out of fear of tampering, well, then he really means it.
The always candid Swinney doesn’t even believe that doing away with spring games will stop the flood of tampering with the spring transfer portal on the horizon.
“We’re going to have a spring game, and I hope we can have some type of fan day with it as well,” Swinney said this week. “I don’t know, we’ll see. Listen, whether you have a spring game or not it’s going to be tampering.”
Some major programs around the country have already done away with their spring games, including powerhouse schools Texas, USC and Nebraska. Clemson could’ve easily joined those premier programs in getting rid of the spring game tradition, but Swinney has answered that question with an emphatic “no.”
“Ain’t nobody going to go look at the spring game, go, ‘Oh yeah, boy,’” Swinney said. “They got PFF. That’s called PFF, they’ve got everything on everybody already. Canceling the spring game ain’t going to stop tampering. We’re going to need a lot more help than that to stop tampering. And hopefully at some point that’ll happen.”
Many college coaches like Swinney as well as athletics administrators are hoping that legislation is passed soon that delves into issues like NIL and player compensation.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
