Satellite Camp Ban Rescinded
#WINNING
NCAA Board of Directors rescinds ban on satellite camps, source tells @ESPN
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) April 28, 2016
EDIT: Link to NCAA Release h/t M Gulo Gulo
Pro-Camp Coach Tweets:
Great news for potential student-athletes! Satellite camps are back on! pic.twitter.com/f85m8XADOy
— Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) April 28, 2016
Excited for student athletes that the satellite camp ban was lifted. #opportunites
— Rich Rodriguez (@CoachRodAZ) April 28, 2016
Get your tickets now!
I for one will be tuning in to Finebaum this afternoon. I'm ready for all the "We'll do camps too, and we'll do it better than anybody. . we're the SEC!!"
3 PM EST
Harbaugh.
I love it !! The people have spoken!!
I am here for the Harbaugh Posbang! Leadership with an Enthusiam Unknown To Mankind!!!!!! The NCAA did not like the idea of the Department of Justice sniffing around.
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What am I supposed to be mad at now?
Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land!
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Especially about Harbaugh
Summer Swarm II. Chalk one up for the good guys and a defeat for the corrupt, good 'ol boys at the NCAA and SEC.
The night of the NFL draft, biggest talk in sports is Sattelite Camps!
Yeah, this guys winning!!
Put a camp directly across the street from the SEC Headquarters.
I nearly fell out of my chair at work laughing at this one.
From a mod on the Alabama board giving the most obvious response to gettint their behinds handed to them:
"Could it be that Harbaugh and the Big 10 will rue the day that the satellite camp ban was rescinded?
I think we all realize that If this is the way the game is going to be played, Saban (and his disciples) will approach it with guns blazing.
In rescinding a ban that lasted just about as long as Marco Rubio's candidacy for the republican nomination, the NCAA has basically said to its member schools -- especially those in Power 5 conferences -- "have at it".
Led by Saban, no conference is better at "doing it big" than the one that has dominated the sport for more than a decade. And that hasn't been the Big 10.
Harbaugh got his wish. After the SEC machine gets going in what will essentially be another block on the recruiting calendar, he and his brethren may regret it.
TR"
Lolz. The idea that Harbaugh is scared of competition is absurd.
Nobody outworks Harbaugh.
It's Jackhammer Time.
These camps do very little for big, huge programs like UM, Bama, USC... They have more benefit, arguably, for UM right now, while Harbaugh rebuilds the name that Brandon's 'brand' destroyed. But in a year, or so, each of these programs will be on equal footing recruiting-wise and name-wise. The SEC/ACC may have some inherent advantage due to geography, but that's okay. I'll take my chances betting Harbaugh vs the field, any day...
That's why I added (Saban disciples). Smart, Muschamp and McElwain know the drill. And you're right about the rest of the league. If the SEC is going to be forced into doing it, I don't see it leaving anything in the bag.
Shit, now the bagmen are really going to start paying kids....
You wanna put an Alabama camp in all 50 states? Go for it. Not only would Harbaugh not be scared, he'll have a guy participate in Every. Single. One. to see if you're doing something we should adopt. Whatever happens, he'll always do it better than you. And the students win by having more camps and more exposure.
Besides, with all that oversigning, no one's going to stick with their SEC commitment anyway.
So their argument is "just wait--the SEC is going to start winning all of those recruiting battles they have been losing to the Big Ten"?
That's it?
Keep drinking that Koolaid, TR.
satellite in my eyes, like a diamond in the sky, how I wonder!
Not a Dave Matthes Band fan?
hip hip
Bravo? NCAA is corrupt and saw ugly things in their future over this
Delany may not be a popular guy here, but I'd bet $1000 to a donut that Delany has been working things politically behind the scenes on this one over the last few weeks.
Most B1G member institutions wanted the satelitte camps, and a good politician gets stuff done for his constitutents. Work behind the scenes on the people who actually vote on these things, and leave the more fire-blazing public comments to others (e.g., Mike Leach) instead of making those comments yourself.
The satelite camp ban was a dumb idea from day one, and I'm glad it was rescinded.
Do I get the $1000 or the donut? I'll take either.
Mike Dantino