Pete Golding Mentions LSU LB TJ Dottery While Responding To Tampering Claims From Clemson

by Staff Reporter

May 28, 20260 Comments

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Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding spoke with reporters at SEC Spring Meetings on Wednesday and was asked about tampering claims from Clemson regarding the signing of linebacker Luke Ferrelli.

In his response, Golding brought up new LSU linebacker TJ Dottery, who followed Lane Kiffin to Baton Rouge after two seasons at Ole Miss.

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"I’m not going to sit up here and say whatever we did or we didn’t do, was it right or was it wrong? But, you know, when you go through what we went through (with tampering), and what you’re seeing day-in and day-out, some things you feel like shouldn’t matter that they’re making a big deal about," Golding said.

“Not comparing [Ferrelli] to a guy who’s been a starter somewhere that wasn’t in the portal that’s at a new school now after going to a semifinal — like what are we doing? That’s the piece where everybody’s at. There’s an enforcement of [Ferrelli], who just took an, but there’s not an enforcement of [Dottery], who was here for three years, and he’s been tampered with the entire time? What are we doing?”