Earlier this year, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney made headlines when he came out and publicly accused Ole Miss and head coach Pete Golding of tampering with transfer linebacker Luke Ferrelli.

Golding made his latest comments on Swinney’s tampering accusations at the SEC’s spring meetings Wednesday, when asked about the NCAA investigation of the Ole Miss tampering case.

“I’m not going to sit up here and say whatever we did or we didn’t do, was it right or was it wrong? But, you know, when you go through what we went through (with tampering), and what you’re seeing day-in and day-out, some things you feel like shouldn’t matter that they’re making a big deal about,” Golding said, via On3’s Pete Nakos.

“That’s why we have a compliance department,” Golding also said, via ESPN. “There’s been an investigation, and all that type of stuff will come out. We know the guidelines in place. It’s my responsibility to hold [assistant coaches] accountable and to set a really good example.”

On Jan. 23, Swinney publicly accused Golding of “blatant” tampering with Ferrelli. Clemson turned over evidence to the NCAA, alleging that Golding contacted and negotiated with Ferrelli while he was already enrolled and attending classes at Clemson.

Ferrelli signed with the Tigers during the portal window, was attending class and taking part in team activities. Swinney says that is when Golding started texting the linebacker directly. With just hours remaining in the portal window, Ferrelli informed Clemson he was heading to Ole Miss.

According to ESPN, Golding noted that tampering is a rampant issue in college football, and he referenced what he sees as a tampering situation with former Ole Miss linebacker T.J. Dottery.

A little over a week after Ole Miss’s loss to Miami in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 8, Dottery, a two-year starter at Ole Miss, transferred to LSU to join former Ole Miss head coach and current LSU head coach Lane Kiffin.

“Not comparing [Ferrelli] to a guy who’s been a [multi-year] starter somewhere that wasn’t in the portal that’s at a new school now after going to a semifinal — like what are we doing?” Golding said, via ESPN. “That’s the piece where everybody’s at. There’s an enforcement of [Ferrelli], who just took an [official visit to Ole Miss], but there’s not an enforcement of [Dottery] who’s … been here for three years, and he’s been tampered with the entire time? What are we doing?”

Citing sources, Nakos reported that Golding has “told Ole Miss confidants that the NCAA knows he is willing to take down competitors if the Rebels are hit with tampering penalties,” and Golding “would be willing to expose more than 15 other schools of tampering.”

According to a report from ESPN on May 22, the NCAA opened an investigation of the Ole Miss football program the same day that Swinney accused Golding of tampering with Ferrelli.

ESPN cited sources saying the NCAA investigation is still “in the early stages.”

In late March, Golding – who is entering his first full season as Ole Miss’s head coach — made his first public comments in response to Swinney’s tampering accusations, saying, “There’s two sides to every story.”

“I’m not going to sit up here and use the podium as a grandstand and all of that,” Golding said on March 31. “That’s why there is enforcement. That’s why we have our compliance office.”