SEC will join 'satellite' camps if NCAA won’t outlaw them

The SEC’s preference is for the NCAA to pass a national rule prohibiting football coaches from participating in “satellite” camps for high school recruits far from campus. But if the NCAA doesn’t do that, the SEC will drop its own policy against the practice in 2016.

“We are going to make every effort to have our rule adopted nationally,” SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Wednesday night at the league’s spring meetings. “If the rule isn’t adopted nationally, come next summer, our folks will be free to fan out all over the country and have at it.”

SEC athletic directors voted Wednesday to rescind the league’s rule against such camps if the NCAA doesn’t act by summer 2016.

Several Big Ten programs have held or plan to hold “satellite” camps in SEC recruiting territory. NCAA rules permit the practice if the program is a guest of a host school, as Penn State was at a Georgia State camp last summer. The SEC worries that its rule against such camps will become a recruiting disadvantage unless either the national rule or the conference rule changes.

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