Dabo Swinney's 8-minute rant throwing allegations at Ole Miss for tampering in Luke Ferrelli's commitment with transfer left the college football world divided.
Sure the NCAA's Vice President of Enforcement Jon Duncan announced the NCAA officially looking into the matter, but the rest of the sport was left picking sides.
One side, the old-school one, views Swinney’s 'receipts' as a necessary stand for the rule of law while the other sees Golding’s aggressive recruiting tactics as the inevitable reality of the modern day NIL world.
Pete Thamel explains Swinney's reason
ESPN insider Pete Thamel explained it better during his recent appearance in the Pat McAFee Show.
"I think the most important part of Dabo Swinney's direct calling out of Ole Miss and Pete Golding is just how rare it is in the modern landscape. You don't hear head coaches, especially those who have won two national titles. Just getting in front of the microphone and lay out piece-by-piece allegations of tampering, giving specific examples of tampering and how the tampering went. That is like the 'wow' in all this," Thamel said.
With that, Thamel explained why Swinney is one of the only handful of people calling out tampering.
"That just does not happen in an environment like college football right now where tampering is part of the course. Tampering is 1st-and-10. It is rampant, it is out there. And one of the reasons why the coaches call out is a vast majority of them or their staffs are doing the same thing. Dabo is one of the few head coaches whose backyard is clean enough that he can come and say 'Hey look, this is happening. This should not be happening'," he continued.
Swinney's clean slate is perhaps the overpowering reason he blew the whistle on Golding's 'blatant tampering' in his rant.
Only time will tell what comes out of these allegations.