Nick Saban created headlines last week by blasting the unintended consequences—that is, creating a breeding ground for recruiting violations—of satellite camps.
From ap.com:
"I don't know how much it benefits anybody because all the people that say this is creating opportunities for kids, this is all about recruiting," Saban said at the Southeastern Conference's annual meeting. "That's what it's about. ... What's amazing to me is somebody didn't stand up and say here's going to be the unintended consequences of what you all are doing."
This led to Jim Harbaugh blasting "Alabama's HC" on Twitter:
"Amazing" to me- Alabama broke NCAA rules & now their HC is lecturing us on the possibility of rules being broken at camps. Truly "amazing."
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) June 1, 2016
Though the two schools joined forces on two satellite camps this week, the debate still rages.
Harbaugh will be in New Jersey tomorrow at perennial power Catholic Paramus. Chris Ash will be hosting his own camp at Rutgers, along with the rest of New Jersey's high schools and some guy named Urban Meyer. Though Ash dove into satellite camps, he agrees with the gentleman from Tuscaloosa.
From nj.com:
"I've been doing this for over 20 years and there have been a lot of really good football players that get recruited and go to camps on campuses, and we weren't doing satellite camps," Ash said. "Am I for opportunities for high school players? I am. Absolutely. But right now there are a lot of things going on out there with satellite camps that they're going to have to go back and take a look at them and review this whole process."
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"There has to be [NCAA regulation]. Absolutely, in my opinion, there has to be some regulation," he told NJ Advance Media. "There was a time that head coaches could go on the road recruiting in May. They took that away because they were concerned about being able to regulate the activities that are going on out there. So now in June you can go all over the country and basically recruit."
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"Why? For a couple reasons," he said. "You've got your own players on campus. You're gone for the whole month of May, and then if you're going to be gone the whole month of June, when are you going to be around your players and developing your football team? Taking care of academics. Making sure they're doing well socially. I think there's a big part of that that's getting lost."
The bigger part getting lost is these coaches don't want to spend their offseason traveling the country and instructing hordes of prospects in effort to find the 2-3 they'd sign anyway.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I must shower due to my agreement with Harbaugh.
