How do we solve transfer tampering? | College Football Enquirer

Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Ross Dellenger discuss the concerns with tampering with football players being allowed to submit their names into the portal starting April 15th.

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PAT FORDE: I'm OK with players having the one time free transfer, but then they need to sit out and not get the waivers that are handed out for the uncle on dialysis.

Part of the fallout from the end of the basketball season is, all right, transfer portal launches into orbit. We saw it after the football season and we're going to see it again here. This is the high volume move-around time. Coaches dislike that.

I'm OK with players having the one time free transfer, but then they need to sit out and not get the waivers that are handed out for the uncle on dialysis every time, it seems like. But anyway, this was some of the discussion Jeff Goodman mentioned-- covers college basketball, obviously, on his podcast, "Field of 68."

Said it's so bad in the portal right now. I had a coach call me and say that some of his best head coaching friends are actively trying to recruit players on his roster away to their teams behind his back. That's how bad it is. I thought Mike DeCourcy of "The Sporting News" had a pretty good thought on this.

So then once again, we have coaches complaining about rules their colleagues violate. Maybe the problem is the colleagues, not the rules. And that's kind of the heart of where I am on this is, A, name names. Who is trying to get your players? How are they trying to do it?

Which players? What's the nature of the contact? And this is the old frustration of coaches want to call us and complain about, oh, this guy there and that guy there-- they never want to put their name behind it and they never want to say exactly what's going on. How roster-- how do we solve the tampering problem if nobody wants to step up and be specific about tampering?

ROSS DELLENGER: Yeah. And that been a frustration for those, I think, in Indianapolis over at the NCAA. They read and see these coaches and administrators complaining about the issue, complaining about tampering, but then they won't give any specifics, or details, or examples when they talk to enforcement and infractions folks at the NCAA. And that's really.

Frustrating there's that old line, right, there's honor amongst thieves. They don't tattle on each other, primarily because they don't want to be tattled on. Because I think there's probably-- nobody is squeaky clean, or very few people in this industry are really squeaky clean. So the coaches complaining about tampering, I think many of them are probably doing-- or their staffs, or somebody, a part of their program, are tampering themselves.