Pac-12 coach takes shot at Jim Harbaugh over satellite camps
One Pac-12 football coach took a not-so-subtle jab at Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh over the topic of satellite camps.
Forget about Michael Myers or Jason Voorhies. Satellite camps will never die.
It’s the offseason story that just won’t go away. First, the NCAA banned college football teams from having satellite camps, which seemed to be in response to the SEC and ACC teams getting riled up with Jim Harbaugh bringing his Michigan Wolverines to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida for a portion of their spring practice.
Comments from the SEC and ACC commissioners followed that were critical of the practice and it seemed like sour grapes that they didn’t think of the idea first.
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Then, the NCAA banned teams from having satellite camps. But that only created more harm than good with Harbaugh and Washington State Cougars head coach Mike Leach among the most vocal. Further, current and future college football student-athletes decried the move saying it would prevent kids from getting their chance at a scholarship.
Quickly, the NCAA realized the error of their ways and rescinded the ban and people were calling it a big win for Harbaugh and Michigan.
Well, one Pac-12 coach didn’t seem too happy about that in comments relayed by ESPN’s Brett McMurhpy.
Pac-12 coach on future of satellite camps: “Michigan will have Ferris wheels & Hooters girls checking in players”
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) May 3, 2016
Now, I wonder what coach would say such a thing?
Could it be a coach from UCLA where the school’s athletic director voted against what the conference decided when the vote to ban satellite camps took place?
While we don’t know who said it. The comment is funny at face value. But he’s also exaggerating to a great degree.
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But then again, look at any major football or basketball program and look at the “hostesses” they have parading recruits around on campus and the bells and whistles they go through to make the recruit feel like a celebrity and tell me how that’s different from what he’s alluding to with Harbaugh?