The NCAA has come under a ton of fire in recent weeks after their decision to ban satellite camps. The ban came after the SEC and ACC felt that Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh was abusing the camps, leading to a vote that saw the camps banned by the FBS conferences.
However, it looks like the NCAA has had some second thoughts, as they released a statement on Thursday saying that the decision had been reversed.
Assuming the reversal sticks, this is good news for most college football recruits. The camps should provide more opportunities for recruits to shine, thus giving recruits ample opportunities to get scholarship offers.
It is also a big win for schools in the Big Ten, specifically. The camps should give the Midwest schools more room to recruit in the fertile areas of the South and the Pacific coast. There was a reason Harbaugh was doing them, and you should expect their competition — Ohio State and Michigan State — to follow Harbaugh's lead after this ruling.
The only downside of this will be the reason why it was banned: the competition by coaches with these camps may become a bit of a farce. Harbaugh already had as many as 30 camps planned before the ban, and the SEC had planned to legalize the camps within their conference if the NCAA hadn't banned them entirely.
Hopefully that competition doesn't become so nonsensical that it impacts the players. It shouldn't, and we can hope that this ends up benefiting everyone in the end.
