📡 Jim Harbaugh; 'Football factories' keeping Michigan out of satellite camps

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Earlier this month, Tulane called an audible on a satellite camp, backing out of an agreement with Michigan in favor of LSU.

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, of course, has an opinion on this.

In an interview with SI.com on Thursday, Harbaugh indicated it is a trend by a number of football programs to keep teams like Michigan out of their states.

"It's definitely a strategy by several football factories to prevent competitors on their turf," Harbaugh said. "The kids be darned."

Tulane cancelled its June 9 camp with Michigan. Instead, the Green Wave will partner with LSU for a June 16 camp.

"We are excited to partner with Tulane and the great city of New Orleans to protect the state of Louisiana," LSU coach Ed Orgeron said earlier this month.

The report indicates coaches from Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas and Houston all planned to be at a camp at Southeastern Louisiana University. All were turned away in favor of LSU.

Orgeron re-iterated to SI it is all about the state of Louisiana.

"No. No. This was us keeping Louisiana together," he said.

"The combination of LSU's pressure and the new NCAA rules not being able to have camps at anything other than a college campus has hampered everything," a staff member at one of the schools shut out of Louisiana told SI.


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One by one, they were asked to leave the state of Louisiana before they even arrived. Football coaches from Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas and Houston all planned to work satellite camps at Southeastern Louisiana University this summer. They were all unceremoniously disinvited last week. Tulane had announced it would work a camp with the Michigan staff. Disinvited, too.

If the coaches were confused, clarity came quickly. Tulane soon found a replacement for Michigan: LSU. And Southeastern Louisiana announced one new partner after severing ties with those A-list schools: Yes, also LSU.

The Louisiana schools are dancing around their reasons for kicking the out-of-state schools out of their camps. But they appeared to succumb to pressure from LSU, which has financial and political power in its state that few schools in the country can match. As one college official noted: “LSU’s influence is undeniable.”

Satellite camps allow college coaches to work with and evaluate high school prospects, building relationships in areas outside their geographic footprint. New LSU coach Ed Orgeron does not want to lose his state’s best players to Texas or Michigan.

Orgeron told Sports Illustrated that LSU did not push Southeastern Louisiana or Tulane to disinvite other staffs: “No. No. This was us keeping Louisiana together.” He blamed LSU waiting to plan camps until after spring ball for the sudden interest in working with Tulane and Southeastern Louisiana. But he did also say, “Protecting the state of Louisiana is always going to be my job as the coach of LSU.”

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[BamaFan334]

Football factories? He doesn't consider Michigan a football factory when looking at college football as a whole? He must be getting low on lines to pop out something like that.

 

[planomateo]

The Michigan "football factory" put the most players in the NFL this year, but can't win their conference or division.