MayOhioEatTurds

June 5th, 2015 at 3:50 PM ^

popularize this narrative.  That narrative is surely true. 

And if it oft-repeated, it will have the subsidiary benefit of making it harder for the SEC to make their argument against camps. 

 

Don

June 5th, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^

"This is wrong? This is not wrong. Talk to a father named Rodney Muterspaw, as I did Thursday at Chatard, and find out what this camp means to his kid. His kid won't play for Michigan. His kid, an offensive tackle named Matt, has an offer from Valparaiso. An offer from Michigan isn't coming. Matt Muterspaw knows that. But still he wanted to come to this camp, wanted it badly enough that his father drove him two hours from Middletown, Ohio, to make it happen.

"He's a huge Jim Harbaugh fan," Rodney Muterspaw told me. "He just wanted to be instructed by the Michigan staff. It's a lifelong dream of his. Coach Harbaugh said hello to him and took a picture with him. To a kid who loves Michigan, that's a big deal. If your kid has a dream, you owe it to him as a parent to do whatever you can."

That's one way of looking at these satellite camps. Nick Saban has another way of looking at it. I'm a father of teenage boys myself. Guess whose view I find ridiculous."

Rabbit21

June 5th, 2015 at 4:07 PM ^

There is not a single word in the article I didn't love and it's the most throughly articulated takedown of the SEC's opposition to these camps yet.

LSAClassOf2000

June 5th, 2015 at 5:27 PM ^

Do something to make a recruit's life easier.

To me anyway, that might be the core issue. With these camps come exposure and access to Michigan, but perhaps others as well (USC plans to be at the Dallas area camp, after all), schools that perhaps some these kids wouldn't normall consider either for distance or other reasons. It is merely providing a choice in a way. The mutual suspicion that permeates the SEC makes choices dangerous, so I see their concern - it is a selfish, unwarranted concern, but I see it. 

 

kb

June 5th, 2015 at 6:13 PM ^

is genuine about giving kids exposure and opportunity. Giving the middle finger to the SEC is an added bonus.

Sione's Flow

June 5th, 2015 at 7:30 PM ^

This article sums up explicitly, why these camps are needed. If these camps help one kid get a scholarship, that may not have happened otherwise. Then they're worth their weight in gold to that kid and his family.