The Georgia Bulldogs reside in a top-five state in terms of producing college football talent, but they would be willing to travel as well.
Michigan and Ohio State will be venturing to the Atlanta area in June to conduct satellite camps, which are recruiting events that colleges can hold on another campus in a different part of the country. The Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference are the only “Power Five” leagues that currently prohibit members from conducting satellite camps, but that ban could expire later this spring.
“We’ve got to be prepared,” Bulldogs first-year coach Kirby Smart said in a news conference after Tuesday’s practice. “It’s like, ‘Who’s going to be first? Who’s going to go where?’ Everybody is lobbying, but we’ve got to be careful because we’re not going out right now and saying where we’re going.
“We’ve got to wait to see if it happens. If it happens we’ll be ready for it, and we’ll have some decisions to make.”
The SEC would like for all satellite camps to be outlawed, and their future will be voted on later this week by the NCAA Division I Council. Should they be allowed to continue, the SEC would eliminate its ban and allow its member institutions to begin conducting them.