No more satellite camps

[ellobo_rivals188748]

I think I read it wrong as well.

So I take it you mean this:
Yes, all of this started last fall, but with so much attention this spring by JH, maybe that helped push the votes to one side vs the other, whereas before all of that attention, maybe the vote wouldn't necessarily have gone the way it did.

Good point.

And my point (which isn't exactly a guess) is that what happened this spring was irrelevant (to what just happened). The ACC and SEC wouldn't have brought their proposals to the NCAA in January if they didn't think they already had the votes. If they lost this there wouldn't be a second chance to do this (in the near future).

I want you to really think about something...your own coach (Riley) was quoted today saying he knew 3 years ago this was going to happen:

"I knew three years ago this was someday going to be the decision that has been made. But I still frankly don’t get it."

At the risk of sounding obnoxious I'm pretty sure Riley didn't have a crystal ball, 3 years ago, that Harbaugh was going to leave the NFL, go to Michigan and bring his team down to FL for spring break. In addition Riley said:

"I told the guys a couple months ago the possibility of this was evident"

A couple months ago was before Harbaugh brought his team down to FL. So unless you are suggesting Riley does has a crystal ball it makes any thought that how Harbaugh acted in FL made this happen...well uniformed (actually, how he acted down there...sticking with facts...almost turned this in back in favor of keeping them...again...I'm not guessing).

Now, Harbaugh did certainly have an effect on what happened. Very few are denying that. It's not that he was the straw that broke the camel's back...he was the 2X4. He sped up a timetable on an issue that was going to be dealt with eventually...in fact, part of it had already been dealt with even before Harbaugh even landed at Michigan when the SEC/ACC got the the NCAA to ban northern schools from holding schools camps (not as guests but actual hosts) more than 50 miles from campus a decade or so ago. The "satellite camp" concept was a replacement for that and started to grow before Harbaugh did what he did last summer.

So, to think this only became an issue because of Harbaugh is wrong. To think him going to Fl for spring break is the reason the vote passed is even more wrong. To think if Harbaugh didn't take his team to FL this wouldn't have happened (at this time) is clueless on the history of this. If you want to blame him for the timing (because of what he did last summer)...ok, that's fair game and probably right.

 

[Nebraska Fan]

So, to think this only became an issue because of Harbaugh is wrong. To think him going to Fl for spring break is the reason the vote passed is even more wrong. To think if Harbaugh didn't take his team to FL this wouldn't have happened (at this time) is clueless on the history of this. If you want to blame him for the timing (because of what he did last summer)...ok, that's fair game and probably right.[/QUOTE]

Harbaugh going to Florida for spring break might have established IMG as a site regularly used for practice and if that's the case Michigan can do satellite camps at IMG.

 

[ellobo_rivals188748]

This quote from Stanford coach David Shaw seems to expand on what Riley said about knowing this would happen 3 years ago:

"I didn't like the way that a lot of people have put this as the SEC against Jim Harbaugh. That's not what this has been about. Conference by conference, this has been going on for three plus years, since Jim was with the 49ers. This has been a battle. As a conference, we had a long discussion three years ago about what we were going to do about satellite camps"

The P12 voted against the camps and from this quote makes it seem they made up their mind 3 years ago...not this past spring

 

[jlb321_rivals110621]

This quote from Stanford coach David Shaw seems to expand on what Riley said about knowing this would happen 3 years ago:

"I didn't like the way that a lot of people have put this as the SEC against Jim Harbaugh. That's not what this has been about. Conference by conference, this has been going on for three plus years, since Jim was with the 49ers. This has been a battle. As a conference, we had a long discussion three years ago about what we were going to do about satellite camps"

The P12 voted against the camps and from this quote makes it seem they made up their mind 3 years ago...not this past spring

please stop! you are ruining a near climactic opportunity to trash the trifecta of the SEC, the South, and Michigan/Harbaugh all the while playing the victim card in a single topic
this is a perfect storm for many and facts are not going to get in the way

 

[HuskerO58]

I think I read it wrong as well.

So I take it you mean this:
Yes, all of this started last fall, but with so much attention this spring by JH, maybe that helped push the votes to one side vs the other, whereas before all of that attention, maybe the vote wouldn't necessarily have gone the way it did.

Good point.

Thank you for explaining what I meant. After re-reading my comments I can see how they could be misinterpreted.