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The NCAA passed a ruling on Friday that will put an end to satellite camps that have been conducted recently by an increasing number of college football coaches.
Here is the language from the ruling:
The Council approved a proposal applicable to the Football Bowl Subdivision that would require those schools to conduct camps and clinics at their school's facilities or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition. Additionally, FBS coaches and noncoaching staff members with responsibilities specific to football may be employed only at their school's camps or clinics. This rule change is effective immediately.
Essentially the ruling boils down to this: you cannot have a camp anywhere but your own facilities, or at a facility that you regularly use. The latter part applies to teams like Miami, who plays in a stadium that they do not own.
This spells the end of the eccentric satellite camps that Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh had been using recently, which had upset the SEC. Harbaugh was frequently conducting the camps in SEC territory with the hopes of gaining exposure in the fertile recruiting grounds of the South.
The proposal is a big win for the SEC, a conference that had already banned satellite camps. However, if the NCAA had not made this ruling, the conference was considering lifting its ban as a way to compete with Michigan and Ohio State.
The ruling is effective immediately.
