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Report: U.S. Department of Justice investigating NCAA satellite camp ban
By Robby Kalland | Staff Writer
April 25, 2016 6:09 pm ET

The satellite camp issue isn't going anywhere. (USATSI)

Anyone expecting the satellite camp debate to die out soon was sorely mistaken. The United States Department of Justice has opened "an informal inquiry" into the NCAA's ban on satellite camps, according to USA Today.

The NCAA's Division I Council voted to ban satellite camps on April 8 and the NCAA Board of Directors is expected to discuss ratification of that ban on Thursday. However, according to USA Today, the DOJ wants to determine if the ban "could jeopardize or lessen opportunities for youth players to be seen or have access to college football coaches."




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What people fail to consider is that the number of scholarships is constant. If a kid gets a scholarship based on a satellite camp, some local kid looses his opportunity to play football at the next level.
 
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The DOJ is investigating this? Good grief, the NCAA is a voluntary institution. They evidently can do what they please, ergo UNC investigation.
 
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Michigan= a Blue State
The South = mostly Red
It's all you need to know about it....
 
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*Bleedingblue* said:
Report: U.S. Department of Justice investigating NCAA satellite camp ban
By Robby Kalland | Staff Writer
April 25, 2016 6:09 pm ET

The satellite camp issue isn't going anywhere. (USATSI)

Anyone expecting the satellite camp debate to die out soon was sorely mistaken. The United States Department of Justice has opened "an informal inquiry" into the NCAA's ban on satellite camps, according to USA Today.

The NCAA's Division I Council voted to ban satellite camps on April 8 and the NCAA Board of Directors is expected to discuss ratification of that ban on Thursday. However, according to USA Today, the DOJ wants to determine if the ban "could jeopardize or lessen opportunities for youth players to be seen or have access to college football coaches."




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What about U.S. Department of justice investigating the NCAA on double standard letting North Carolina off the hook for cheating for 20 years in men's Football & Basketball.
 
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The Satellite Camps are BACK...The B1G won....from the article:

The NCAA's Division I Board of Directors has rescinded the ban on satellite camps for Bowl Subdivision football teams.

The board's decision Thursday comes almost three weeks after the Division I Council approved a proposal barring FBS coaches from holding or working at camps and clinics away from their schools. The camps drew a high profile recently as Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh held camps in the South.

The ban created an outcry from coaches who contend satellite camps provide opportunities for athletes to be noticed by high-profile coaches and possibly receive scholarships.

The board also directed the council to conduct a broad assessment of FBS recruiting. The board wants initial recommendations for improving the football recruiting environment from the council by Sept. 1.

http://pilotonline.com/sports/colle...cle_b7bb01c8-460f-52b7-96c5-4d541998c13d.html
 
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Get ready, all the big boys of the Power 5 are going to be hosting camps all over the country and we're talking a couple of million for every camp. Painting fields to match your home, gigantic screens so you can play the same messages you would in your stadium, players and former players there to coach the kids, academic staff, medical staff, coaches the whole ball of wax. The schools that choose not to participate with the same gusto will find recruiting harder than ever. What ever money football budgets have been able to hold back will be gone.
 
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If they are worried about players not getting seen or recruited then they should only allow players that don't attend any camps to be eligible to go to the satellite camps. You already know teams like Michigan aren't going into the South for diamonds in the rough. They want to steal the recruits that would otherwise go to the SEC powers.
 
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Yes seriously. The DOJ under Obama is highly politicized and puts politics before justice any chance it gets. Perhaps it won't matter now that the ban has apparently been rescinded; although it would be interesting to know what kind of political pressure was brought to bear on the NCAA to do so.
 
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What about U.S. Department of justice investigating the NCAA on double standard letting North Carolina off the hook for cheating for 20 years in men's Football & Basketball.
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You got that right. UNC uses fake classes for almost 20 years, and the NCAA can't figure out what to do after years of "investigation." Yet, they quickly informed SC that Marcus Lattimore can't work for or be associated with the football team because he has a foundation that helps kids. That foundation holds small camps for little kids all over the state, and the North Carolina Admiration Authority (NCAA) stated since Lattimore's foundation holds camps, this would give SC an unfair recruiting advantage. His camps are basically for little kids and are like 1 day camps. I can see where the NCAA was all over this important issue.

http://marcuslattimorefoundation.com/
 
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