Dabo rips Ole Miss for 'blatant' tampering with LB

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• 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 quarterback Demond Williams Jr., who attempted to back out of a contract with the Huskies before returning to the program, and Duke quarterback Darian Mensah, who is now being sued by the school for breach of contract as he attempts to transfer after saying he would remain with the Blue Devils. Ferrelli, one of the country's top freshmen defenders in 2025 at Cal, entered the portal in January.
• Swinney detailed a two-week process that followed in which Ferrelli visited both Ole Miss and Clemson, agreed to a revenue-sharing contract with the Tigers, rented an apartment, purchased a car, enrolled in and attended classes and had begun offseason workouts there. Swinney said that on Jan.
• 14 -- more than a week after Ferrelli had begun classes at Clemson -- Ferrelli's agent contacted Clemson general manager Jordan Sorrells to alert him that "Ole Miss was going hard" after Ferrelli.
• At Swinney's request, Sorrells then reached out to Ole Miss GM Austin Thomas requesting the school cease further communication with Ferrelli. According to Swinney, Thomas assured Sorrells that he did not support tampering but that Golding "does what he does."Swinney then detailed a series of communications from Golding to Ferrelli starting during an 8 a. m.