This has been a different kind of recruiting cycle in the era of the transfer portal and Name/Image/Likeness benefits available to prospective college athletes.
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney says things have not changed for the better, however, particularly in this cycle.
"It's crazy. It's really sad to be honest with you," Swinney said on the school's broadcast Wednesday addressing the transfer portal effect this year. "I think there's over, I don't know, right around 2000 kids in the portal and most of them don't have anywhere to go. And there's so much tampering going on and so many adults manipulating young people, and it's sad, but it is what it is from that standpoint.