Opinions are made, and sides are taken. Dabo Swinney's tampering allegations have driven a fundamental schism in the postseason narrative, some saying it could revolutionize modern-day recruiting, while others call it whining.
The one thing that everyone from either side of the deabte agree on is the NCAA being the real culprit.
It is a problem they could have easily stoped from taking shape years ago, had they not allowed it to spiral out of control.
Instead of taking sides with Swinney or Golding, Urban Meyer is naming the elephant in the room.
Urban Meyer blasts NCAA in support of Dabo Swinney
“There are no rules, the NCAA is gone, it’s over. I can just hear it, there’s gonna be a two-year investigation on something that should just be fixed right now. I heard there were 90 infractions of tampering last year, but law and order without consequences is not law and order, it’s chaos," Meyer said in the Triple Option podcast.
After laying out flat where the real problem was, Meyer also lashed out at everyone normalising tampering because "everyone is doing it."
“This disgusts me, it makes me sick, because I hear people say, everybody does it. No, everybody doesn’t do it. If this is all true and it sounds to me like Dabo has the goods right there, this should not be a three-year investigation. I actually see people taking shots at Dabo. Dabo is doing the right thing, turn them in.”
The second part of Meyer's argument can easily be proven wrong with the receipts from the recent transfer portal class. Case in point, Darian Mensah didn’t spontaneously decide to leave Duke for Miami last week.
But that is a whole different ballpark.
For now, all that Golding should be concerned about is the NCAA finally dropping the hammer for their selective enforcement, and making them the sacrificial lamb.