The Clemson Tigers poked more fun at Luke Ferrelli after Dabo Swinney went after Ole Miss last week.
The Clemson Tigers have no intentions of putting to rest the drama surrounding Luke Ferrelli and Ole Miss.
On Friday, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney went on an epic rant about problems with NIL and the transfer portal.
Swinney, slowly adapting to the need to add transfers in the offseason, was set to land Ferrelli, a linebacker transfer from California. Ferrelli committed to the Tigers on Jan. 7.
For two weeks.
On Jan. 22, he signed with Ole Miss.
Swinney read aloud alleged text messages from Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding. Golding asked Ferrelli what his buyout was. Whatever the buyout was, it wasn't enough to stop the Rebels from taking him.
Swinney thought Ole Miss took tampering to new heights with Ferrelli.
“This is a whole other level of tampering," Swinney said, via ESPN. "It's total hypocrisy. ... 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."
Ferrelli is no longer with the Tigers, but his bio is still up on Clemson's website. The only data on the bio page is a clip of Swinney's news conference alleging Ole Miss of tampering.
For the overview, only one sentence reads:
"Click here for Luke Ferrelli's timeline at Clemson."
With a link to Swinney's news conference.
Swinney said his intention of the news conference wasn't to get a coach fired or about Ferrelli. The Clemson head coach doesn't want players who don't want to be with the program.
Swinney argued current rules are hurting players.
"If we don't act about these current transfer rules, we're going to look up in five or six years and see a mass of players without degrees who'll have spent their short-term money," Swinney said.
"We're going to have a bunch of screwed-up 30-year-olds."
The situation almost reminds one of what happened in the NFL when Bill Belichick left the New York Jets after his introductory press conference to become the head coach of the New England Patriots.
For their pain, the Jets received a first-round pick in 2000.
Clemson is just getting buyout money.