While Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh spent another week in the Alabama hot sun hosting another satellite camp, Alabama coach Nick Saban went tubbing with some of his players over the weekend with not a care in the world. And why should he?
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Over the weekend, Saban added a four-star quarterback and one of the top offensive lineman to an already loaded 2016 class and he wasn’t even working this weekend.
That’s how good of a recruiter Saban is and the rich are only going to get richer if SEC coaches decide to open satellite camps next year.
The decision has already been made that if the rules don’t change regarding satellite camps, the SEC will release the hounds so to speak.
Harbaugh may not think he opened a can of worms when he started satellite camps down in SEC country, but he has. Coaches like Saban, Les Miles, Gus Malzahan and others are only going to get richer if they decide to open satellite camps in places like California, Michigan, Ohio and other states.
You think Urban Meyer will be thrilled to know that SEC coaches will be having camps in Ohio close to his campus? I doubt it.
Meyer built his team that won the national championship this past season on SEC caliber players and those same players, mostly from Ohio, are now going to be fair game for SEC coaches, as if they need the help.
Coaches like Saban won’t have to make an appearance, all he would have to do is send offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin who is one of the hottest names in coaching or defensive coordinator Kirby Smart to Columbus and Ann Arbor and watch the recruits roll in.
Oh they won’t get every four and five-star recruits in Ohio and Michigan, but stealing one or two from those states will eventually add up and draw more recruits down south.
That may be the only way you will see reform when it comes to satellite camps in the NCAA is when it starts effecting other schools.
Everyone loves to see the SEC take a hit especially in situations like this where they have little or no control, that is until it starts effecting their teams and conferences.
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