With the NCAA’s edict that, at least for now, rescinds the banishment of satellite camps, college football coaches are free to move about the country in the pursuit of recruits away from their own campuses.
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Harbaugh will not attend himself, but four of his assistants will. Apparently, not every MI coach will attend every camp this summer. This is our state, and Chris Ash is doing a phenomenal job so far in #fenc[ing]thegarden.
“We all kind of had to prepare kind of going two ways, with them and without them”, said Georgia coach Kirby Smart.
Florida Atlantic recently announced United Kingdom coaches would be on campus for a camp on June 14.
The southern states are perpetually teeming with college-level talent, and who could blame the other conferences for wanting a piece of that action? That’s unlikely. His brother in law, Jimmy Cain, is the Blue Springs South basketball coach. Cain is married to Sarah’s sister, Amy.
“I think they had it right (before last week’s decision by the NCAA board of directors)”, Johnson said from Reynolds Planation, where he was participating in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge golf tournament. “We’ll get down into MS and over into Georgia and Florida”. The camp is sure to bring some notoriety and revenue to the high school.
Would these concepts really be that devastating, recruiting-wise, to SEC programs, or the major schools from the Lone Star State?
Plus, by celebrating the camp-ban overturn with MI, it’s possible that Harbaugh might subsequently derive less joy with this year’s crop of satellite camps … compared to last summer, when he was rebelling against the machine, angering the nation’s most powerful conference and garnering 100 percent of the media spotlight. Bulldogs coaches also will be present a week later at the Georgia Minority Coaches Association in Stockbridge, where Auburn, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Tennessee will have representatives.
Elsewhere in the division, the other East coaches acknowledged their teams will take part in the new summer ritual of satellite camps, but some expressed concern the revised offseason schedules will cost their program’s local exposure to campers.
Odom reiterated that getting prospects on campus remains the top priority as it allows for more time with the Tigers’ staff and, he believes, provides a recruiting edge by showcasing Mizzou’s facilities and campus.
As I discuss with Mike and Kevin, these camps won’t have a great impact on their schools either in Minnesota and SC.
Missouri nearly certainly isn’t done adding camp dates and locations, including a keen interest in an appearance in Chicago.
Can’t get enough of Campus Sports? “That area, the city of Chicago, is 5 1/2 to 6 hours from our campus, so obviously it could be a draw there”.
Satellite college football camps…at the end of the day, nothing more than a big waste of time?
Plenty of other camp options are bounds to surface. If Ohio State would have called and said they want to have one or asked if we were having a camp they could work, of course I would say yes.
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It doesn’t mean that UK’s recruiting footprint will change dramatically, though, Stoops said Wednesday.
