David Pollack is fed up with college football’s tampering problem.
Tampering is a rampant issue, especially in today’s age of the transfer portal, and it has especially been a hot topic of late.
Pollack, the ex-ESPN analyst and former Georgia/NFL linebacker, sounded off on the issue in an episode of his See Ball Get Ball show.
Pollack went on a rant about tampering and blasted the NCAA for its failure to enforce tampering rules up to this point. On social media, he posted, “If the NCAA won’t draw a line in the tampering sand, then it’s ruined the sports we all love.”
“If you don’t want to make this a line, NCAA, so be it. That’s fine. But you just screwed college football. You absolutely screwed college football,” Pollack said. “Because you gave every single person the right now to do this exact same thing. I can go to any school at any time and purge from your roster. You signed him? Who cares. How is that healthy for any part of our game? It’s atrocious for any part of our game. It’s a black eye.”
As you know, Clemson had a very public transfer portal/tampering situation with linebacker Luke Ferrelli. On Jan. 23, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney revealed Clemson had turned Ole Miss into the NCAA for tampering with Ferrelli.
Swinney claims that Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding texted Ferrelli directly while he was sitting in class after having already enrolled at Clemson. Ferrelli had already signed his financial aid agreement and was taking part in football activities before ultimately re-entering the portal and committing to the Rebels on Jan. 22.
“If the NCAA doesn’t do something with this [Ole Miss tampering case], I quit with the NCAA. … It’s just a bunch of bull crap,” Pollack said. “You cannot let people be enrolled in a school, taking classes, creating my goals for the season. Like, bro…”
In Pollack’s opinion, the Ferrelli tampering case is “not the kid’s fault.”
“Like, this dude’s in sociology class. … He’s enrolled at Clemson, he’s enrolled in classes … and now you have another university that tampers, that comes in [texting out contracts],” Pollack said. “This is not the kid’s fault. This is the adults’ fault, and the adults need consequences.”