NCAA Shut Down Jim Harbaugh Satellite Camps For The SEC
By Ty Duffy
SEC coaches got their wish. The NCAA has shut down college football satellite camps. The rule is effective immediately. It will limit camps to on campus or at “regularly used” facilities. Limiting exposure to different schools is surely a victory for “the student-athlete.”
"The Council approved a proposal applicable to the Football Bowl Subdivision that would require those schools to conduct camps and clinics at their school’s facilities or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition. Additionally, FBS coaches and noncoaching staff members with responsibilities specific to football may be employed only at their school’s camps or clinics. This rule change is effective immediately."
The rule is intended to shut down Jim Harbaugh. Michigan’s head coach held 11 camps in seven states last summer. He had more on the docket for 2016.
Potential rule changes were put forward by the ACC and the SEC who, not surprisingly, want to keep Big Ten coaches from poaching recruits in the South. Their coaches had little interest in responding to Harbaugh with enthusiasm unknown to mankind.
Victory will be somewhat pyrrhic for said coaches, who have spent a substantial portion of their national media appearances all offseason talking about Jim Harbaugh.
We suspect Harbaugh will progress swiftly to his next loophole.