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NCAA satellite camp ban lifted, but deep-seated discord remains
Source: Sports Illustrated
NCAA satellite camp ban lifted, but deep-seated discord remains
BY CHRIS JOHNSON
Posted: Thu Apr. 28, 2016
There’s a new development in the storyline college football fans can’t wait to go away this off-season. The NCAA Board of Directors decided on Thursday to rescind the ban on satellite camps announced earlier this month. In a release, the NCAA said that the board wanted the governing body’s Division I Council to conduct a “broad assessment of the FBS recruiting environment.”
The upshot is that the ban is gone, but the NCAA is seeking a thorough examination of how recruiting can be improved. “The Board of Directors is interested in a holistic review of the football recruiting environment, and camps are a piece of that puzzle,” board chair and South Carolina president Harry Pastides said. “We share the Council’s interest in improving the camp environment, and we support the Council’s efforts to create a model that emphasizes the scholastic environment as an appropriate place for recruiting future student-athletes.”
The ban prohibited FBS schools from conducting camps for prospective recruits away from their campuses. It theoretically would have benefited the ACC and SEC—which previously had rules in place for their conference members barring such camps—by denying coaches from other Power 5 conferences access to their talent-rich territory (Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh ruffled feathers when he embarked on his seven-state “Summer Swarm” tour last year). But the ban represented a much more severe blow to Group of Five schools, which rely on the camps to unearth low-profile prospects.
Like myriad other pieces of NCAA legislation, the ban felt like yet another instance of multimillionaire officials and coaches getting their way at the expense of unpaid athletes. The mother of one five-star wide receiver in the class of 2017, Cass Technical (Mich.) High’s Donovan Peoples-Jones, had gone as far as to create a petition seeking to overturn the ban. Recruits were getting shafted, it seemed, because some schools didn’t want Harbaugh swaggering through their states with his shirt off handing out dozens of scholarship offers.
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BY CHRIS JOHNSON
Posted: Thu Apr. 28, 2016
There’s a new development in the storyline college football fans can’t wait to go away this off-season. The NCAA Board of Directors decided on Thursday to rescind the ban on satellite camps announced earlier this month. In a release, the NCAA said that the board wanted the governing body’s Division I Council to conduct a “broad assessment of the FBS recruiting environment.”
The upshot is that the ban is gone, but the NCAA is seeking a thorough examination of how recruiting can be improved. “The Board of Directors is interested in a holistic review of the football recruiting environment, and camps are a piece of that puzzle,” board chair and South Carolina president Harry Pastides said. “We share the Council’s interest in improving the camp environment, and we support the Council’s efforts to create a model that emphasizes the scholastic environment as an appropriate place for recruiting future student-athletes.”
The ban prohibited FBS schools from conducting camps for prospective recruits away from their campuses. It theoretically would have benefited the ACC and SEC—which previously had rules in place for their conference members barring such camps—by denying coaches from other Power 5 conferences access to their talent-rich territory (Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh ruffled feathers when he embarked on his seven-state “Summer Swarm” tour last year). But the ban represented a much more severe blow to Group of Five schools, which rely on the camps to unearth low-profile prospects.
Like myriad other pieces of NCAA legislation, the ban felt like yet another instance of multimillionaire officials and coaches getting their way at the expense of unpaid athletes. The mother of one five-star wide receiver in the class of 2017, Cass Technical (Mich.) High’s Donovan Peoples-Jones, had gone as far as to create a petition seeking to overturn the ban. Recruits were getting shafted, it seemed, because some schools didn’t want Harbaugh swaggering through their states with his shirt off handing out dozens of scholarship offers.
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Read more: http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/04/28/ncaa-satellite-camp-ban-lifted
