What’s the end game for satellite camps? Look to Jim Delany for insight

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As the dust cleared late last week following the NCAA Board of Directors’ demolition job on the ban of satellite camps, a shadowy figure stood in the background — figuratively speaking, of course.

Could you see him?

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany remained primarily on the sideline during this latest round of debate on the hot-button issue. Delany does not sit among five conference commissioners on the 40-person Division I Council, which, on April 8, enacted the legislation to shut down satellite camps that the board reversed last Thursday.

The 24-member board of directors, chaired by South Carolina President Harris Pastides, includes 20 school presidents and chancellors, one student-athlete, one faculty athletic representative and chair Jim Phillips, the Northwestern athletic director.

Again, no Delany.

But his fingerprints were all over the latest move. Pastides, in a statement released by the NCAA, said the board “is interested in a holistic review of the football recruiting environment” instead of a piece-by-piece attempt at reform.

Delany has made similar comments often, as recently as last month after the council’s initial ruling, and dating to last May at the Big Ten meetings in Rosemont, Illinois.

Delany said in April 2015, on the gamut of recruiting issues — including satellite camps, early signing, …

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