Dabo Swinney's tampering allegations all but launched an official open season on Ole Miss's recruiting tactics, and so far, no one has held back their punches.
South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Shane Beamer was the latest to join the Rebels' bash-fest.
Ever since Swinney brought out the receipts, so many from the college football have held Ole Miss accountable, asking the NCAA to implement stirct rules, or watch their rules becoming a joke.
Beamer's reprimand was along the same lines.
“What Dabo did? Yes, absolutely, being able to call it out, and I’m sure he, like other schools, turns stuff in when there’s issues and if there’s issues with something,” Beamer said in his media appearance on Wednesday. “… I think a lot of those conversations happen head coach to head coach.
"Then, if there’s things that need to be turned into the NCAA or the SEC, we have, but certainly to be able to call someone out publicly like that was the next step, and we’ll see what happens.”
“What the penalty should be, that’s for other people to figure out, but I believe it should be severe,” Beamer said Wednesday. “I mean, if we have rules and we’re not going to enforce them, then what the hell do we have rules for?
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It is nothing new, though, something else that Beamer agreed on with the rest of the college football world. The gray area of tampering has long infested recruiting, and a strict message from the NCAA was long overdue.
"I’m sure there’s a grey area that we’ve been in at some point and ticked off some school. We try and do things the right way."
“There’s a lot happening right now, just every kid in the portal, every kid in America, has an agent, and those agents are reaching out to schools. That’s happening. I mean, that’s happening during the season, and it’s not just this year.
"It’s been happening for multiple years where agents of players at other schools are reaching out to colleges about the players they represent.”
Beamer's words warrant the obvious question that if it has been going on for quite a while, would it be fair to make Ole Miss the scapegoat to take the blame and be the mighty example the NCAA wants to set?
Instead it would be 'selective enforcement' from the NCAA's end, sending an altogether different message than what the current crisis demands.