Eason Details Challenges of Recruiting In NIL Era

CLEMSON — The current era of college football has created numerous challenges for coaching staffs across the country.

One of the biggest comes on the recruiting trail. Make no mistake, recruiting has always been a cutthroat business, but at the end of the day, many recruitments tended to boil down to relationships. With the advent of NIL and the new revenue-sharing model that just began on July 1, relationships are starting to take a backseat for many in what has become a more transactional process.

At Clemson, Dabo Swinney has always strived to make his program different. The two-time national title-winning head coach has cultivated a culture inside his program that tends to really resonate…