CLEMSON — While the evidence keeps mounting that a Michigan Football staffer allegedly was stealing signals while scouting games in person, Dabo Swinney said he has not had anything like that happen to the Tigers.

“That’s a new one,” the Clemson coach said after practice on Wednesday.

Michigan analyst Connor Stalions is at the heart of the scandal that has engulfed the college football world. Stalions has been accused of buying tickets to more than 30 games and then using “illegal technology” to steal signs in hopes of gaining an advantage.

“I don’t know anything specifically on any of that stuff, but you certainly can’t have in-person scouting with videos and all that type of stuff,” Swinney said.

Stalions has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of an NCAA Investigation. Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh has denied any knowledge of what Stalions is being accused of.

As for signals being stolen during football games, that is gamesmanship.

“It is always a part of whatever game you are in. You are always looking at the other sideline,” Swinney said. “You are trying to figure out what personnel are in the game. Certainly, if you figure out something in the game, that has always just been part of the game.”

However, Swinney said trying to figure out what the other team is trying to do and what play they are going to run during a game is not easy.

“It is hard to do, that’s why everybody tries to protect it,” Swinney said. “You got multiple signals, you got signs, you got different signalers. You got a lot of things that you do to try to not make it easy for the opponent to pick up on the blitz signal or your run signal, protection or whatever it is.

“It has just kind of been that way for ever and ever and ever in college football or any level in football.”

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