KNOXVILLE — The NCAA’s decision to ban satellite camps was the right one, Tennessee head coach Butch Jones believes.
On Friday the NCAA’s Division I Council approved a proposal from the SEC and ACC that requires FBS schools to hold camps for high school players “at their school’s facilities or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition.”
The decision came in the wake of Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh essentially touring the South last year with the camps and lining up more in Florida and Alabama this summer.
Other Big Ten Conference coaches were getting in on the act, while SEC commissioner Greg Sankey was among the most vocal opponents of the camps.
The Big 12 and Pac-12 also voted for the proposal, while the MAC, Conference USA and the American all voted with the Big Ten to keep them.