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If you can’t ban ’em: SEC plans satellite camps
- Updated: May 4, 2016
3:58 PM ET
Southeastern Conference coaches are ready to start participating in the satellite camps their league had wanted to eliminate nationwide.
When the NCAA Division I Board of Directors decided Thursday to rescind a ban on satellite camps — just three weeks after it had been instituted — it also cleared the way for the SEC to end its own prohibition of the practice. During a Wednesday teleconference, nearly all the SEC Eastern Division coaches said their schools would be taking part in satellite camps now that the restriction has been lifted.
“We’re in the process of putting our traveling show together,” Florida coach Jim McElwain said. “It should be fun. I’m looking forward to it.”
The Division I Council approved a proposal last month requiring FBS schools “to conduct camps and clinics at their school’s facilities or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition.” The measure, which was endorsed by the SEC, also said that “FBS coaches and non-coaching staff members with responsibilities specific to football may be employed only at their school’s camps or clinics.”
But the NCAA Division I Board of Directors rescinded that ban last week. The SEC had been preventing its own coaches from satellite camp participation, but the …
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