{"id":5092,"date":"2026-07-21T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:04:21","slug":"tampering-or-not-top-receiver-confident-in-choice-to-remain-with-unc-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=5092","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tampering\u2019 or not, top receiver confident in choice to remain with UNC football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\">Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As UNC football struggled to a 4-8 record last season in the program\u2019s first season under head coach Bill Belichick, standout wide receiver Jordan Shipp\u2019s family began fending off calls from would-be NCAA transfer suitors before the season had even ended.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=5090\">The potential bias lurking behind &#8216;best credit card&#8217; website rankings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a breakout room session at ACC Football Kickoff in Charlotte on Friday, Shipp said his mom began receiving calls from other coaching staffs around Week 7.<\/p>\n<p>But Shipp said he didn\u2019t want to hear any of it.<\/p>\n<p>Other schools were prepared to offer big money to pry him from Chapel Hill, he said, but he told his mother to delay any discussion of it until after the season ended. Even then, he said, talks about those programs were brief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me what schools were calling, (and) she just brought up some of the offers and stuff like that,\u201d Shipp said. \u201cAnd I was just like, it\u2019s not about the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The behavior Shipp described sounds like tampering, which is prohibited by the NCAA under Bylaw 13.1.1.4. The governing body sets penalties for staff members or other representatives of athletic programs to \u201ccommunicate or make contact with the student athlete of another\u201d Division I school or their family members if the player isn\u2019t in the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurprisingly,\u201d he said, head coaches, position coaches and other folks from different schools reached out to Shipp\u2019s mom trying to find out who his agent was. But he doesn\u2019t have an agent, because he didn\u2019t feel the need to hire one while he wasn\u2019t draft-eligible and didn\u2019t plan on transferring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say tampering,\u201d Shipp said, \u201cjust checking on some folks. That\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the allowance for players to profit from their name, image, and likeness, along with other rule changes, has increased player movement, conversations about tampering\u2019s prevalence have ramped up.<\/p>\n<p>Some coaches have publicly expressed their frustration, including Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, who sounded off on the topic during a breakout session Thursday. In January, he accused Ole Miss coach Pete Golding and general manager Austin Thomas of \u201cblatant tampering\u201d in their pursuit of transfer linebacker Luke Ferrelli.<\/p>\n<p>Golding said in April that there were \u201ctwo sides to every story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been consequences,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s been much fear of consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=5088\">North Carolina lawmakers have changed teacher licensure laws. What to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his news conference Wednesday, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips emphasized the need for people with information about tampering to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has to be consequences,\u201d he said. \u201cUntil there\u2019s consequences, then we\u2019ll get similar behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In choosing UNC, Shipp said he was focused on the program he believes will best prepare him for the NFL and life after football. He said he didn\u2019t make money as a freshman, and wouldn\u2019t have come to Chapel Hill in the first place if he wanted to rack up cash.<\/p>\n<p>The Charlotte native said he wanted to be close to his family, just over two hours away from him in the Triangle. He described himself as a \u201cbig family guy,\u201d and as his parents get older, he wants to visit them often.<\/p>\n<p>He also doesn\u2019t want to miss his nieces\u2019 and nephews\u2019 recitals, dances and sports games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to come and my niece seeing me in the crowd for her dancing and her running up like that,\u201d he said, \u201cmeans so much more to me than any touchdown I\u2019ve ever scored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shipp is coming off a 60-reception, 671-yard season and projects to be UNC\u2019s primary receiver during coach Bill Belichick\u2019s second season at the helm. He will also be draft-eligible at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In class, Shipp has already finished his undergraduate degree by taking \u201ca lot of summer credits,\u201d he said, and he is starting on a master\u2019s degree. As he continues setting himself up for life while at UNC, he said he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s \u201cweird\u201d that other coaches tried to lure him away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s just trying to win football games,\u201d he said. \u201cYou do whatever you can to win. It is what it is. Do what you can to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=5087\">Jelly Roll&#8217;s Daughter Says Internet Will &#8216;Crumble&#8217; Over Reason for Divorce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, Shipp said, he\u2019s already winning, just by being \u201chome\u201d at North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC football wide receiver Jordan Shipp says he ignored coaches calls, offers midseason, prioritizing family in Chapel Hill and development over money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-todays-edition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Tampering\u2019 or not, top receiver confident in choice to remain with UNC football - 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