Big Ten asks NCAA to stop punishing schools for tampering, per report

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The notion of tampering in the college football world has become a hot-button topic over the past year, with coaches starting to become vocal about how rampant an issue it has become, particularly in the transfer portal.

However, according to a report from ESPN's Pete Thamel, the Big Ten is trying to get the NCAA to lay down its arms when it comes to punishing teams for tampering. Thamel says that the Big Ten has sent a letter to the NCAA, asking it to “impose a moratorium on investigations and infractions proceedings” related to tampering, and “comprehensively reevaluate” rules.

Tampering came back into the limelight earlier this offseason when Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney accused the Ole Miss Rebels of contacting his player, LB Luke Ferrelli, illegally in the portal. In a fiery press conference, coach Dabo Swinney laid out the timeline for Ferrelli's commitment and subsequent decommitment. He accused Ole Miss coach Pete Golding of tampering by communicating with Ferrelli after he signed with Clemson.

In the letter from the conference, the Big Ten argued the House settlement – which ushered in the revenue-sharing era in college athletics – has made current rules unworkable.

“The fundamental structural problem is this: the current framework has chosen to impose significant negative consequences on student-athletes who enter the transfer portal – loss of scholarships, NIL arrangements, facilities access, academic support, and relationships with coaches – while simultaneously prohibiting the pre-portal communication that would allow those student-athletes to determine whether risking those consequences is worthwhile,” the letter reads.

This will undoubtedly turn into a bigger story over the course of the offseason as the rest of the college football world reacts to the ask from the Big Ten.

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