In the video above, Chris Broussard and Rob Parker rip Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney's criticism of the Transfer Portal. According to Sports Illustrated, Swinney said the following:
"It's crazy, it's really sad, to be honest with you," Swinney said Wednesday at Clemson's signing day ceremony. "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 is 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 of the lessons we're teaching young people I don't think is going to benefit them well as they move through their life," Swinney said. "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 de-value education and I think that's the wrong approach."
"We're going to have a lot of young people that aren't going to graduate. Mental health is one of the biggest issues in college. There's a lot of kids whose identity is wrapped up in football and all this does is further that. when they get to these other places and they think the grass is greener and they realize the mirror traveled with them, I think a lot of kids are going to suffer. I think graduation rates are going to go down and it'll be interesting to see where that is five years from now, 10 years from now."
"It's total chaos right now," Swinney said. "Tampering galore. Kids being manipulated. Grass is greener and all that stuff as opposed to putting the work in and graduating. There's no consequences. So now you've got agents and NIL, tampering, and you have no consequences. No consequences equals no conscience. There's no reason for pause, no barrier for young people, like, nothing. Education is like the last thing now."
Chris and Rob hammer the point that coaches benefited from abuse of the system for so many years on the backs of athletes who were just as responsible for the success of universities. Students having the option to transfer with a penalty of waiting a year to play wasn't fair when coaches don't have the same rule applied to them. This is especially critical when coaches are allowed to quickly ditch their coaching job for another job similar to Brian Kelly who just abandoned a playoff-bound Notre Dame squad.