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Mark Richt: SEC might revisit rule on satellite camps

Will the SEC change its stance on satellite camps? Georgia coach Mark Richt seems to think so. Or at the very least, the topic will be revisited at the conference meetings next month in Destin, Florida.

Currently, the SEC prohibits their schools from holding satellite camps. So does the ACC and as of this week, the Pac-12. However, the other conferences do not have the same rule in place, and the Big Ten, most notably Michigan, is taking full advantage of that. First-year coach Jim Harbaugh has camps set up in Alabama, Florida, Texas and California this offseason.

The SEC coaches believe that creates a recruiting advantage for those coaches.

“It could become more of an issue," Richt said Tuesday. "For us as a league, we’ve chosen not to do it. If everybody else is doing it, and it’s hurting us in recruiting, then I’m sure we’ll change our SEC policy. Or at least it’ll be a big topic for discussion. And it’ll probably be a big one in Destin.

“Part of our deal is we don’t want to wear our SEC coaches to a nub. We want them to have some kind of a life. If you do one then you do two then you do three, where do you stop? Obviously you’d have to pick and choose and all that. We’d prefer the rest of the country not do it rather than us joining with what the rest of the country is doing. But if we need to we’ll revisit that.”

Richt isn’t the first SEC coach to speak out about the issue, and he likely won’t be the last.

You can read more about Richt’s stance on satellite camps at the Macon-Telegraph.