ATLANTA - The khaki pants are coming! The khaki pants are coming!
Michigan Wolverines head coach and khaki pants enthusiast Jim Harbaugh announced he is planning on attending satellite camps right in the heart of SEC and ACC territory.
Harbaugh will hold a camp at Cedar Grove High School, as well as camps in Mississippi, Alabama and Texas in June, according to multiple reports. Hundreds of prospects from those areas will attend and meet Harbaugh.
At an event with the Macon Touchdown Club, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart said Harbaugh has every right to hold camps near SEC schools, but added it is time for a change.
“They’re obviously trying to gain a competitive advantage, and that’s their right. But I think the NCAA in due time will have to step in," Smart said.
Harbaugh fired back on Twitter.
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"If the Georgia coach is implying any intent on our part to break rules, he is barking up the wrong tree," he tweeted.
Satellite camps are a clever recruiting tactic that allow a coach to travel as a guest to a camp hosted by another school or high school. The NCAA does not allow coaches to host a camp 50 miles outside of their campus, but they are allowed to serve as a guest if the camp is hosted by another institution.
However, the ACC and SEC have rules prohibiting their coaches from even serving as guests outside the 50 mile radius. Thus, why Smart and several SEC and ACC coaches have expressed their grievances over the unequal rule.
