Satellite camp? Sounds like something high tech, space station kind of stuff. Practically STEM-ed.
Never heard od it before? It’s a big deal if you’re a young kid in high school with the dream of playing college football.
But if you’re talking good old boy, big time college football, then the idea is just a major annoyance.
That would be the view of one distinguished professor of football, AKA coach, at an institution like Ole Miss. Hugh Freeze makes $5 million dollars for his efforts, and lives by the football version of “publish or perish.” In other words, “just win, baby.” Freeze thinks satellite camp is for the birds.
Last week, the SEC, the conference representing Freeze’s school, joined a majority of FBS conferences and four of the five autonomous conferences to affirm the wishes of coaches like Freeze and ban satellite camps immediately.
In doing so, they crushed the hopes and dreams of countless talented student athletes who may now get overlooked and lose out on valuable scholarships.
Is that anyway for the NCAA to act?
