NCAA Bans Satellite Camps
"You can't put it past rule makers to make another dumb rule" - Jim Harbaugh
NCAA D1 council has shut down satellite camps pic.twitter.com/ifCJG6yDds
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) April 8, 2016
Isn't this ambiguous as written? "...or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition" distinguishes those facilities from the "school's facilities" in the first clause. Though the intent is clear, so long as Harbaugh continued to hold his satellite campes at "facilities regularly used for practice or competition," he'd technically be in compliance with the language, regardless of which state he holds the camps in.
Unless there is some, otherwhere specified, definition of "regularly", you can just hold a practice in Prattville (or Florida) every year, and then a satellite camp. That would be "regular".
It would lessen the camps, but still allow you to have 1 or 2.
Also -- what's the penalty for breaking this rule? Having to listen to Delaney explain to you for 4-hours why adding Rutgers was a good idea, with no breaks?
loophole!! Thinking outside the box, the bun, etc....
Are there any MGo-ANTITRUST lawyers that might want to weigh in on this issue?
It seems to me, and this was discussed last year by ND's AD, that this restriction by the NCAA is anti-competitive in that it restricts opportunities for high school athletes. I wonder if there might be an opportunity to file a suit against the NCAA using antitrust as the basis of the complaint.
If there is merit to what I suggest, file the suit along with a motion for injunctive relief that orders the NCAA to suspend the rule until the case is adjudicated.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jon-solomon/25166729/not...
The SEC and ACC want a national rule preventing college football coaches from staging satellite camps far off campus. Nick Saban is complaining that satellite camps are “ridiculous.” NCAA president Mark Emmert says the issue will be at the top of the list for the NCAA's Football Oversight Committee.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick offers some cautionary advice to the NCAA: Good luck defending yourself against another antitrust lawsuit.
“The NCAA does not have a very good track record of limiting, without losing an antitrust lawsuit, economic opportunities for coaches,” Swarbrick said Tuesday at the College Football Playoff meetings. “So they should be treading very lightly. The perception is these are school opportunities. A lot of these are coach opportunities purely. Imagine a rule that said, as was introduced years ago, coaches couldn't do national televised advertising because it created a recruiting advantage. … I wouldn't want to defend those lawsuits.”
If they aren't then the NCAA just took an axe to a very good thing. If they are then Harbaugh has a loophole he can drive a truck through.
— mgoblog (@mgoblog) April 8, 2016
SPORTS LAW HIVEMIND: Does the fact that this is "employed" and not "may no participate" mean what I think it does? pic.twitter.com/MpVJSaRRCX
— Bryan Mac (@Bry_Mac) April 8, 2016
Who benefits from that little clause "...or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition,"? Are there schools that regularly use other facilities to practice/play? I guess SDSU uses Qualcomm instead of their own stadium, but this little rule was specifically proposed and passed to benefit the SEC. Do SEC schools regularly camp away from school facilities?
Perhaps Jim should just change it from "Camp" to something just a little different. A team-building vacation!
Maybe some schools in NFL cities use NFL facilities for practice reguarly or even just on occasion, for instance if they lack an indoor practice facility. Schools like SMU, Tulane, Houston, Miami, Vanderbilt, Charlotte (going FBS soon, I believe), Temple, etc. There could be a reason one of those schools would also want to hold or participate in a camp at the NFL facilities.
There was a time when U Minnesota was using other facilities because of renovation or construction on their regular facilities.
and for them Jessica has another 4 letter word....
No one is better at making terrible decisions than the NCAA.
Can always count on them to make the wrong decision. Have to respect the consistency.~
#disbandthencaa
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The NCAA has taken their ball and gone home.
lol, like the ncaa would try to rationalize a damn thing
Harbaugh is just gonna double his EUTM and find another way to hold camps.
They would have to have it to provide it.
Made us do it.
And ACC.
There is no reasoning beyond that. If there was, why would the NCAA limit this to only FBS football?
Baseball coaches are free to travel the USA, but if a FBS football coach tries it? Think of the children!
I doubt it was just the SEC/ACC. I'm sure all southern non-P5 schools were opposed as they don't want anyone gaining access to their diamond in the roughs. I wouldn't be shocked if the have nots of the Big Ten also opposed because they couldn't get the budget to do this and didn't want further disadvantages compared to the top schools.
Well, I'm glad we were leaders in this regard and got what we could before they were banned.
Except we weren't.
Folks had been doing 'em for a couple years before us.
James Franklin was the 1st P5 coach to really do them.
This asshole organization can't die soon enough.
Southern schools go crying to mama when others get legal advantages, while they themselves cheat. Is that right?
Let them play with themselves. See how successful a two-conference association will be.
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They tried! Our athletic director came out and said that other schools offered Rashan Gary "incentives" to come to their schools and no one in the NCAA gives a shit.
Yeah, this is simply protectionist bullshit that will get dressed up as, "We are looking out for schools that may not have the resources in order to fully implement this system."
Amazing that the SEC can so easily force the NCAA to "Heel".
Rationale: "Oh no, someone is making this look too professional. Quick, let's shut down the ability for low income students to get exposure. That would solve the issue!" -cashes check for three million dolars-
We need to hit the reset button on the administration of college athletics. Just start over.
They parallel the IRS when it comes to competence - neither organization has much of it.
I don't think you needed the explanation after the hyphen - we were already nodding in agreement.
Allowing schools to gray shirt and blue shirt is ok, but satellite camps aren't? JH must be really rattling those boys down south.
corollary would be congress as they write the tax code and make it law and the IRS is just the collection agency.
But either way this is stupid
on the tweet Harbaugh is going to fire off in the next 30 minutes....
I'm going to guess it will be a very pertinent quote from Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut or Mark Twain.
"The Best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire