🏈 The Camps -- SEC now has four schools in one "Mega-Camp."

[rick4bama]

Thanks for all the input here.

 

[Kevin Scarbinsky |]

Can you imagine an SEC AD voting against the wishes of every other school in the league on the issue of banning satellite camps? Me, neither.

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[planomateo]

I doubt this has anything to do with why teams want remote satellite camps

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

 

[planomateo]

Odd, how can they rescind something that was voted on? Precarious spot they put themselves into (typical NCAA). Curious to hear more.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Odd, how can they rescind something that was voted on? Precarious spot they put themselves into (typical NCAA). Curious to hear more.

Same here.

Sounds like a case of tail wagging dog here.

 

[bamachine]

 

[uofarolltide]

Sattelite camps are fucking stupid

 

[TerryP]

Sattelite camps are ******* stupid

Have we seen enough to know that they're stupid? It seems like a premature judgement.

In the right venue, in the right city, with the right coaches ... you know the exposure would be through the roof.

 

[uofarolltide]

Have we seen enough to know that they're stupid? It seems like a premature judgement.

In the right venue, in the right city, with the right coaches ... you know the exposure would be through the roof.

It's just one more thing for football programs to have to worry about, and keep up with, and it's really only benefitting schools in poor recruiting regions

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

And Bama vets a commitment from an elite Hawaiian QB without a satellite camp.

In other news, the sun is hot, and water is wet.

 

[TerryP]

and it's really only benefitting schools in poor recruiting regions

We really don't know that, yet.

I'm of the opinion two can play this game. A Nick Saban camp, in Washinton, DC, ... let's say it's at Washington and Lee University's field. That'd likely seat 2500-3000, good location to hit a lot of kids in that area from the ninth grade on up.

If schools are going to do this, let's do it better than any other.

 

[planomateo]

Sankey needs to open it up and I want Saban to get to work.

 

[uofarolltide]

If Nick Saban was so adamantly opposed to it, then you know this isn't good for us.
The way I see it is, it drains more attention and resources, and we end up breaking even at best.

 

[TerryP]

If Nick Saban was so adamantly opposed to it, then you know this isn't good for us.
The way I see it is, it drains more attention and resources, and we end up breaking even at best.

Have you heard Saban voice opposition to the camps?

I've heard him question what benefit they would offer schools. His questions weren't an opposition—at least that's how I interpreted them—they were questions.

Was he in favor of the SEC having to operate under different rules than other conferences? No. And rightfully so, IMO. But that's not the same as being adamantly opposed to the camps.

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[TerryP]

@uofarolltide

Here's one of those commentaries I mentioned earlier. This one from a Bama beat writer from BOL.

Saban has been outwardly against satellite camps, asking “what value does it serve”in the past. But since the ban was lifted -- even though the camp is only an hour north and within the state -- Saban and his staff will be camping.

"Outwardly against, asking ..." Wait. By asking a question, it's declaring he's against this?

The original article, from the same writer, following the press conference where Saban talked about this.

“I’m really not even thinking that it has that much value,” Saban said. “What would be a more interesting question for you to research -- and I can’t answer this -- the teams that have done them, what value does it serve? How many players did they get?

“They had some players commit to them and some of those players decommitted, and I know they even wanted to drop some of those players when they found out they could get better players.”

Now, it evidently has some value, today, or Bama wouldn't be involved with the camp at Samford, right?

Does it held any future value? We don't know. But, there's no other way to find out than getting involved, right? We've got one sample size, a small and disorganized one at that, to draw a decision from.

Personally, I can't draw an opinion from such limited information, done in a very immature amateur fashion.

 

[planomateo]

LOL...mega camp.

 

[TerryP]

At the top of this page, the rumor of an Alabama, OSU, USC, and TCU camp in Texas ...

From a TCU fan site ... other fans perspectives.

Satellite Camp with tOSU, Bama and USC

 

[uofarolltide]

@uofarolltide

Here's one of those commentaries I mentioned earlier. This one from a Bama beat writer from BOL.


"Outwardly against, asking ..." Wait. By asking a question, it's declaring he's against this?

The original article, from the same writer, following the press conference where Saban talked about this.



Now, it evidently has some value, today, or Bama wouldn't be involved with the camp at Samford, right?

Does it held any future value? We don't know. But, there's no other way to find out than getting involved, right? We've got one sample size, a small and disorganized one at that, to draw a decision from.

Personally, I can't draw an opinion from such limited information, done in a very immature amateur fashion.

If Nick Saban were in favor of it, he'd come out and say it, like he always has.
We're not doing them now because they're going to be an extra help to us, we're doing it because we have to compete. This is just something extra we have to do now, and Saban apparently thinks there's a lot more for us to lose than to gain with these camps.

If you know Nick Saban, when he opposes something, he asks rhetorical questions like, "Is this what we want the game to be?" "Is there any value to this?"
When he's in favor of something, he publicly campaigns for it.
It's pretty obvious