{"id":1184021,"date":"2026-03-02T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184021"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:57:23","slug":"ncaa-announces-crackdown-on-portal-tampering-in-memo-to-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/ncaa-announces-crackdown-on-portal-tampering-in-memo-to-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Announces Crackdown on Portal Tampering in Memo to Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0NCAA\u00a0is going to attempt to enforce its own rules once again.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from Ross Dellenger of\u00a0<em>Yahoo Sports<\/em>, the association has sent out a memo to all of its athletic programs announcing that they would be cracking down on\u00a0transfer portal\u00a0tampering. Vice President of Enforcement for the NCAA Jon Duncan state that the DI Board of Directors has charged the staff to \u201cpursue significant penalties\u201d for tampering violations against teams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In a memo sent today to NCAA schools, VP of Enforcement Jon Duncan announces that the DI Board of Directors has charged the staff to \u201cpursue significant penalties\u201d for tampering violations, while also more publicly announcing cases, and reminded schools about the tampering bylaw. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UwLWVBQEkq\">pic.twitter.com\/UwLWVBQEkq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossDellenger\/status\/2026068273846968590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our sincerest hope that these potential policy and rules changes will better serve the new era of Division I while balancing fairness and efficiency to meet membership expectations,\u201d Duncan\u2019s memo read.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly,\u00a0Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney\u00a0may have had something to do with this. He publicly called out Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding for tampering with his transfer linebacker Luke Ferrelli, who wound up in Oxford after already enrolling at Clemson \u2014 something Swinney said was blatant tampering.<\/p>\n<p>Tampering has been rampant since the portal started a half decade ago, but while it is technically against the rules, those rules have not been enforced at any sort of level in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not this memo changes the way teams run their programs remains to be seen, however, it does seem like the NCAA is at least trying to take a more active role in putting it to a stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The\u00a0NCAA\u00a0is going to attempt to enforce its own rules once again. According to a report from Ross Dellenger of\u00a0Yahoo Sports, the association has sent out <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/ncaa-announces-crackdown-on-portal-tampering-in-memo-to-teams\/\" title=\"NCAA Announces Crackdown on Portal Tampering in Memo to Teams\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1087218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,91,10,145,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","8":"category-alabama","9":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","10":"category-auburn","11":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/dhh23123097aub_vs_mar_mcbowl.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184022,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184021\/revisions\/1184022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}