@moscott, I still don’t get it. The rule actually limits itself to FBS schools. Here is the language of the press release, as reported by Fox
Unless there was some complimentary rule that was passed that relate to FCS and the other divisions, I don’t see how this applies outside of FBS.
@bluewater2015, the confusion is that Mike Leach from Oregon State gave an interview saying that the coach’s vote on the satellite camp issue within the PAC 12 conference was 11 schools in favor of permitting the camps with one abstaining. Here is a link to a report of the interview
The conference itself, which is represented on this committee by a UCLA guy, reportedly voted in favor of the ban. Of course, none of us know how the individual conferences’ by laws work as to whether each issue which comes up before one of the NCAA committees requires a vote from the schools or whether the rep is empowered to speak on behalf of the conference. As I said above, what Leach says about several of the PAC12 schools not being in favor of banning these camps makes sense to me. I would really like to see what someof the ACC coaches have to say about this as well. Hard to see how Boston College, Syracuse, Louisville, Va Tech, Virginia, etc could have supported this.
Thanks @Ohiodad51 and I agree. In the Pac 12 case, banning the camps seems mainly to benefit UCLA and USC, and maybe to benefit Cal, and to hurt the others (except Stanford) that have relatively low in state populations and draw a lot of recruits from California (especially Southern California). Based on some recent interviews with the Stanford coach, it seems like Stanford didn’t really care one way or the other on this issue.
It’s a big price for the little guys to pay for the ACC and SEC to keep Harbaugh from running his camp in Florida. The ones who might be the most hurt are the assistant coaches at smaller schools that are on 10 month contracts and work the camps in the summer to make money.
Are there really FBS assistants on less than full year contracts? Pretty sure even in the MAC and C-USA the vast majority of assistant coaches are making at or near six figures. Am also pretty sure that Alabama is not paying the coaches from Georgia Southern to come to their camp.
Maybe some of these guys were making some extra money at places like NE Elite, Top Gun, or other third party camps. But unlike in a lot of the sports discussed here, third party camps are not huge in football (with the possible exception of some of the specialist camps). Now maybe such third party camps will spring up since coaches apparently can’t travel to camps any more. I think that would be a shame, since my limited exposure to those camps in another sport (baseball) was not positive.