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Swinney on NCAA rule: ‘They killed a gnat with a nuclear bomb’

ROCK HILL, S.C. — There are a lot of things Dabo Swinney does not like about the Division I Council’s new recruiting model which was adopted on April 14. However, the one part he likes the least is the rule that prohibits high school coaches from working summer football camps and attending clinics at colleges if a prospect from his high school is being recruited by that college.

“I’m very disappointed,” Swinney said told The Clemson Insider prior to Monday’s Prowl & Growl event in Rock Hill, S.C. “It is one of the worst things that has come down the pipe in my opinion since I have been involved in college athletics.