ACC football coach takes shot at schools for canceling spring games

Now that college football's off-season is in full swing, spring practices are beginning for schools. It's a time of year where the blueprint for next season begins to be put in place and it ends with an annual Spring Game in April. Well, for most schools.

This year, a handful of schools have announced that they are canceling their Spring Game with one school, North Carolina State, going so far as to close their spring practices to the public. With the spring transfer portal window opening in April, some coaches want to avoid tampering when it comes to NIL.

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is holding a spring game this year for his Tigers and in his usual wisdom of words, he didn't hold back when it comes to other schools not playing their game and tampering.

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney calls out programs not having a spring game

Swinney said that Clemson is holding their spring game, and whether schools decide to hold them isn't going to stop tampering. Well, he's not wrong.

College football and college sports in general have become one giant free agency frenzy seen in professional sports when it comes to NIL. He's also right with a school watching a spring game and then making a move, tampering with a player off of that game. The games in the fall are the ones where schools scout players, which is why the winter portal is as crazy as it is.

Boston College is another ACC program to cancel their spring game and defending National Champion Ohio State isn't having one, but that is understandable with their season going until just past mid-January in the National Championship Game.

Canceling of spring games is disappointing and here's hoping it doesn't become a bigger trend as tampering is, but that is just the state of college football, whether you play a spring game or not, according to Swinney.