Sounds impressive, sounds good---------on the surface. I'm not sure it would be good to have players our coaches have found and bring them to a place where all the other coaches can notice them and recruit them. It could be good, but I don't know.
Sounds impressive, sounds good---------on the surface. I'm not sure it would be good to have players our coaches have found and bring them to a place where all the other coaches can notice them and recruit them. It could be good, but I don't know.
Hopefully since the whole idea is to get more kids noticed, this will mostly be for the ones that are not committed and not ones looking for a better offer.
This is how I think all these satellite camps should be done. Have a couple per conference and only allow those and that all schools are allowed to attend. Make everything an even playing field for all schools. Atlanta is a good choice for one and maybe have another in like Orlando or maybe Tampa. Somewhat centralized areas of the states near heavily populated cities that can handle an event like this and have large amounts of high schools within a couple hours or less to allow for more players to attend.
This shouldn't be a rich schools get richer setup. Sure schools like Michigan have the money to be able to host a bunch of satellite camps, but it just makes it an even bigger unfair advantage over schools that don't have the finances to do it. That should have like an expense cap that all schools can spend and it is a violation if exceeded. You can bet there would be certain schools breaking that rule and trying to hide it. The whole spirit of this it's to find kids that were overlooked and give them a chance to get recruited, but I have a feeling it will just make the whole backing out of a commitment thing way worse.
No kid in the Atlanta metro area that wants a college football scholarship doesn't get offers to play. Every school has multiple college coaches at their games every Friday night because every game has a couple of highly rated kids, some with as many as 15 future P5 signees. There could be 20 satellite camps in Atlanta every year and there wouldn't be 5 more kids get offered than there are without one. Michigan is wanting a camp in Atlanta to form a relationship with a kid who has an offer to Berry College, the kids they are proposing to be helping, nor will anyone else attending, it will be to get in on the elite kids in Atlanta. UGA can't sign all the kids in Atlanta that will sign P5 scholarships, and honestly it would help us if more signed with UM or tOSU than Auburn, Bama, UT or another SEC team, but it sure isn't helping the conference. Urban knows he can't win big without kids from Florida or Georgia, he had 2 starters on defense from Georgia the last couple years, both 5* kids, he wasn't coming south to offer some deserving kid who didn't have any offers, I don't know how many he had from Florida, but Bosa was 1 for sure. Harbaugh knows the same thing.
If the SEC wants to put on a satellite camp where all schools attend, put it on in Texas or the west coast, somewhere outside our footprint, like the other schools are doing, let them play a little defense keeping their kids home too.