Where we are and what’s next in satellite camp circus

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If circus music plays in your head while reading the latest updates to the satellite camp ruling, you’re not alone. A lot has happened in a short amount of time and quite a bit has been confusing.

To bring you up to speed, this is where the ruling currently stands and where it can go from here.

Conference representatives initially voted 10-5 to implement the rule to ban coaches from conducting a camp outside of their institution’s campus. It also bans an institution’s coach from being employed at another institution’s camp.

“I think he’s clear he did not vote the way he was supposed to vote,” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said of UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Votes cast by Power 5 teams were counted as two votes compared to one by the Group of 5 teams, which means the actual outcome was six conferences who voted for the ban and four who voted against it. The six who voted for the ban were the ACC, Big 12, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC and the Sun Belt conference.

However, on Wednesday, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero, who was the Pac-12’s voting representative, cast his vote against the wishes of the coaches within the conference.

“I think he’s clear he did not vote the way he was supposed to vote,” Scott told ESPN.com. “We had 11 schools in our conference that wanted this looked at as we studied more comprehensively football recruiting issues — there’s a variety of them — but in the meantime we’d prefer the status quo, which for us allows coaches to attend other camps in other markets.”

The Sun Belt conference also initially voted to ban the satellite camps, but commissioner Karl Benson said that if there were a revote today, his conference would be 7-5 in favor of keeping the camps.

Going back to the tally of 10-5 that enacted the proposal, if the Pac-12 and Sun Belt had both voted in favor of keeping the camps, the proposal would have been defeated 8-7.

Those new details have given …

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