The NCAA is going to attempt to enforce its own rules once again.
According to a report from Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, the association has sent out a memo to all of its athletic programs announcing that they would be cracking down on transfer portal tampering. Vice President of Enforcement for the NCAA Jon Duncan state that the DI Board of Directors has charged the staff to “pursue significant penalties” for tampering violations against teams.
“It is our sincerest hope that these potential policy and rules changes will better serve the new era of Division I while balancing fairness and efficiency to meet membership expectations,” Duncan’s memo read.
Interestingly, Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney may have had something to do with this. He publicly called out Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding for tampering with his transfer linebacker Luke Ferrelli, who wound up in Oxford after already enrolling at Clemson — something Swinney said was blatant tampering.
Tampering has been rampant since the portal started a half decade ago, but while it is technically against the rules, those rules have not been enforced at any sort of level in recent days.
Whether or not this memo changes the way teams run their programs remains to be seen, however, it does seem like the NCAA is at least trying to take a more active role in putting it to a stop.
Michael Brauner is a Senior Sports Analyst and Contributing Writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @MBraunerWNSP and hear him every weekday morning from 6 to 9 a.m. on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5, available free online.

