could be a funny picture or something.
You might be right.
The SEC lifting their ban is just a conference repealing a rule that put its school at a competitive disadvantage.
Correct, and the obvious conclusion to be drawn from that is that the competitive disadvantage was a much greater concern than whatever student-welfare bullshit they used to pretend to justify the ban in the first place.
That doesn't make them hypocritical. They're just saying "we think it would be best for everyone if this practice were not followed as a whole, but we're not willing to sacrifice our own chance of winning for that." Maybe that means they're not the best defenders of whatever moral issues they were advocating for, but I don't see how it's hypocritical.
Because, when asked, they specifically said it was not about a competitive advantage and was entirely a principled stand because Think Of The Children. Hypocrisy, from the dictionary: "a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess."
If they really Cared About The Children, they wouldn't let their coaches partake in such an awful activity, but that would hurt their programs.
thus is hypocrisy defined.
"I mean we're not allowed to go to all-star games, but now we're going to have satellite camps all over the country. So it doesn't really make sense."
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2015/04/nick_saban_calls_sa…
Well Nick, you don't have to have a camp. Just stay at home.
I bet his wife's skin is the same texture as one of their footballs.
lol.... jesus
*Gasp* he will have to work for a few of those 5 million dollars.
Nah, who am I kidding? His Bagmen will still do all the work for him.
Can't wait to hear Finebaum's hot take.
Nah, they're drinking their own urine today.
I like this feeling.
it's spelled that way, either.
We continue to believe football recruiting is primarily an activity best-focused in high schools during the established recruiting calendar, which has provided opportunities for football prospective student-athletes from all across the country to obtain broad national access and exposure but with appropriate guidance from high school coaches, teachers and advisers that focuses on both their academic and athletic opportunities as they decide where they will play college football. - Greg Sankey on the ban reversal
Wait, wait.....so what was the problem you had with camps again, Greg? I mean, other than the fact that your conference had a lame rule and you believed that it best suit your conference if everyone had the same lame rule....and that whole "protect the cartel" thing?
What the hell does this quote mean? Isnt that exactly what Harbaugh is doing? I know there are camps planned with ODU from the FCS level but the camps last season were all run by High School coaches with Harbaugh and staff as invited guest coaches. So these camps were "primarily an activity best-focused in high schools during the established recruiting calendar". And if coaches from colleges arent allowed to work those HS camps how have they "provided opportunities for football prospective student-athletes from all across the country to obtain broad national access and exposure'?
And if I hear one more person affiliated with the SEC say "student-athlete" when they really mean chattel, Im gonna puke.
April 28th, 2016 at 11:18 PM ^
For those scoring at home, that's a 70-word sentence.
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Yes, but the SEC coaches are going to look silly working Midwest camps in their ski parkas and wool hats in July.
The ACC and SEC are going to tear themselves and each other to shreds. I hardly think any of those schools are interested in leaving the talent rich area they are in to come north where 5* recruits are few and far between.
No, they are now going to each other's backyard. Every week LSU, Alabama, and the rest of the power schools are going to have someone camping 'out back'. The SEC's 50 mile fortress has been breached now.
Locals in the know have always said the ban wasn't about keeping other conferences out of the south. It was meant to protect member schools from cannibalizing and one-upping each other until no one was left unscathed. As my Auburn friend says "Remember, the SEC proudly boasts that it's unofficial motto is "If ya' ain't cheatin', ya ain't tryin."
The joke is on the SEC. They had a ban on satellite camps, not to keep Harbaugh out of Prattville, but ot keep Miles out of Tuscaloosa and keep Saban out of Gainesville. It was to protect them from themselves.
But now thanks to their whining, they just shot themselves in the foot.
Harbaugh will come down there for a day or two here and there and that will be the end of it. But Saban and his assistants will live in places like Baton Rouge. Likewise for the rest of the SEC coaches. They are going to be a big pain in each other's asses.
You think you had to work hard for that 5 million dollars before, Hugh . . .
Fine with me that the SEC wants to do camps. In my America it's OK to cross state lines - for everybody.
I don't see this as hypocritical at all. No reason they should put themselves at a competitive disadvantage -- if other schools are going to come into their territory, they should be able to go to other areas.
The problem was that they were trying to force their self-imposed protectionist measures on the rest of the NCAA. Now that that ploy has failed, I have no problem with them participating on an even playing field.
Lost amid the euphoria of overturning nthe ban on camps is this part of the statement:
"The board members also directed the Council to conduct a broad assessment of the FBS recruiting environment."
Will they actually look at the SECs bagmen and oversigning?
I suspect many on "the council" go looking for the bagmen fairly regularly...Like every time there is a significant decision looming that the SEC might have a particular stance on...nudge, nudge....wink, wink.
It means to look at everything Harbaugh does to recruit and write rules against them
Great, now Hugh Freeze is going to have to use Trivago to get a deal on hotel rooms for a week or two. He only makes $13,000 a day guys. I don't know if his budget can handle bringing his kids on the road with him over summer break.
not airbnb?
Boy oh boy, how will Paul Finebaum spin this one..?
[oops, missed the prior post on Finebaum]
He will say Harbaugh never beat the SEC at anything, well, except when he signed Rashan Gary who visited a lot of SEC schools and destroyed the SEC East Champs in his first year.
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stunned that they are so openly and unabashedly selfish. It's honestly incredible that these clowns had the balls to talk up and down about how bad these camps are, basically lying to everyone in the world, only to see them lift their own ban immediately following the national ban collapsing.
Basically these assholes were lying because they were mad they couldn't do it too. When that failed they dropped the charade and played along. Astounding on several levels, completely predictable as well
I hope we have camps in every single SEC town with dozens of other schools just to piss these clowns off