Nice Article by Greg Doyel on the Indy Satellite Camp
*points and laughs*
I was thinking more like Incredible Hulk music.
I can't embed. Not savvy enough, I suppose.
Also, it is Gregg, not Greg.
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.
"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."
Great story, and while I don't want to be a Debbie Downer... Don't NCAA rules on satellite camps explicitly say a coach can't take a picture with a camper?
Why on earth would that be a rule? Cant kids and parents have memories of the events they attend. Is a picture with Saban gonna convince a kid to commit to Bama or a picture with Dantonio some sort of illegal benefit? Super dumb, NCAA smh
the coach (or university) can't take a picture with a recruit and post it or tweet it. The press, or the kids can do what they want. Which they are and Jimmy is getting great PR.
Granted it is self-serving to say so in some regards, but it is absurd how little concern there is for the recruit in this process. I can't see out accessibility is bad.
Uh oh... took a picture with him?
Freep is going to be all over this now.
of Saban makes my butt crave barbed wire. Ask Saban about oversigning and why that's just fine. Asshole.
This is perfect.
So perfect.
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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.
at Chatard likely looking for parents to talk to support a piece he had already in mind and perhaps even mostly written save for the quotes. Love it.
Poor SEC! Goodness forbid that those cheating #$%^s would have to work a little harder to recruit.
coaches, you know, do something that helps out the kids.
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.
Great article. He really did a great job calling out Saban's hypocrisy and I love the father-son angle.