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Clemson head football coach Dabo
Swinney lamented the current state of the NCAA transfer portal given
the new name, image and likeness (NIL) rules and suggested a return
of the one-year waiting period to become eligible at a new school.
Swinney told reporters Wednesday the
current structure takes away from education and puts student-athletes
at risk of manipulation:
“It’s crazy, it’s really sad to be
honest with you. There’s right around 2,000 kids in the portal and
most of them don’t have anywhere to go. There’s so much tampering
going on and so many adults manipulating young people. It’s sad, but
you know, it it what it is from that standpoint. You’ve got a lot of
young people that … there’s a time and a place, but most of the
kids are in there when they shouldn’t be in there.
“Some are and some shouldn’t. Some
of the lessons we’re teaching young people I don’t think is going to
benefit them well as they move through their life. It is something
everybody has to manage and deal with. There’s no consequences.
There’s no rules. I’m all for transferring. I personally think we
should let them go whenever they want. I just think they should sit a
year and then you get that year back upon graduation. What we’ve done
is decentivize and devalue education and I think that’s the wrong
approach.”
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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