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The Southeastern Conference got its wish on Friday when the NCAA prohibited satellite football camps effective immediately.

The NCAA stated Football Bowl Subdivision schools must "conduct camps and clinics at their school's facilities or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition." Further, coaches and staff members "may be employed only at their school's camps or clinics." This effectively eliminates the "guest coaching" loophole coaches such as Michigan's Jim Harbaugh and Penn State's James Franklin have utilized to coach at camps across the country.

It was the SEC that proposed a rule prohibiting satellite camps after Big Ten schools and other set up shop in fertile Southern recruiting bases. Michigan hosted a satellite camp at Prattville High School last summer and had two more planned this summer in Alabama.

RELATED: Big Ten commish reacts to ban.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban was one of the most vocal opponents to satellite camps and said Wednesday even if the ban didn't go through, he didn't see any value in Alabama participating in them.

"How many teams play Division 1 football?" Saban asked. "Are they all going to have a satellite camp in every metropolitan area? That means they'll have 113 camps in Atlanta, 113 in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Dallas, Houston. I mean, it sounds like a pretty ridiculous circumstance for me for something that nobody can really determine, did it have any value anyway?"



The Atlantic Coast Conference also supported the banning of the satellite football camps. The SEC said it would drop its own ban on May 29 and allow its coaches to participate in the camps if a national ban was not implemented. Multiple SEC coaches, including Georgia's Kirby Smart, said they'd be ready to do it if the ban was lifted.
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Appears that the SEC boys are afraid of those boys from up north and their so-called "irrelevant" conference. No telling just what that "ruling" cost them.

Next the SEC will need to find a way to stop Keyshawn Johnson, Jr. and his "peer recruiting". Maybe a ban on high school athletes having computer access, smartphones, and social media accounts?

ROTFLMFAO!
 
Let's see............ the ACC voted against it. the Big 12 voted against it, the Pac 12 voted against it, and the SEC voted against it.

The only conference it could help was the B1G because there are no players up there anyone wants.

Seems I remember the "Peer Recruiting" experiment at Colorado some years back. How did that work out for them in the long run?

That's right. They beat Missouri with 5 downs! lol
 
This is a Saban/ESECPN deal. Anything to keep the scales tipped in favor of the Supporting Everything Criminal Crime Syndicate. Crybabies.
 
NCAA= No Compromising, Advantage Alabama.

Equal footing? If you buy that, Hopalong has some beach front property he'll let go for just what he's got in it.....he might even throw in the bridge thats in Lake Havasu to sweeten the deal.
 
You'd better be glad the NCAA ruled against the satellite camps. If they hadn't, Saban would have two in every state and the has beens like the Hucksters would never get another 4 or 5 star player.

Plus a lot of kids/parents wouldn't be able to afford the Unofficial visits to the far away colleges when making their school choices.

Bama has enough money to pay for a bunch of Official visits along with their parents. A bunch.................
 
You don't think other schools have dough? This is all about keeping the local talent local. God forbid a kid from the Sanctions Eventually Coming neck of the woods go up north to play ball, or have a chance to be seen by representatives of a northern school in a location that didn't cause economic hardship for the young man.

I don't care for Harbaugh, but he nailed it 100% about the No Compromise, Advantage to Alabama and the Sanctions Eventually Coming on this.

I'd like to see Saban have camps in Wyoming or the Dakotas.

If you're so keen on everybody having equal footing, I'd like to see any ESECPN team play a game or two up north when it's about 10-15° with a 30mph wind in late November. I can hear the excuses for losing now.......
 

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