Outrage Du Jour: SEC Country Having Conniptions Over David Shaw's Comments on Satellite Camps

Submitted by VicTorious1 on

Stanford's coach, David Shaw, made a comment about satellite camps and how Stanford didn't have any plans to start doing them due to their eligibility standards. I'm not sure if he was taking a dig at the SEC, making a joke or not specifically talking about the SEC, but folks in SEC country are not happy.  Below are his comments:

"I have no opinion. [Satellite camps have] never affected us. People do them, and people don't do them. We've got great attendance at the camps we have here -- we get a lot of guys we want to come....But I didn't like the way that a lot of people have put this as the SEC against Jim Harbaugh. That's not what this has been about. Conference by conference, this has been going on for three plus years, since Jim was with the 49ers. This has been a battle. As a conference, we had a long discussion three years ago about what we were going to do about satellite camps....I'm great with whatever college football says, because it doesn't affect us. It doesn't make sense for us to go hold a camp some place where there might be one person in the entire state that's eligible to get into Stanford."  http://www.ruleoftree.com/2016/4/10/11400862/stanford-cardinal-football-2016-spring-game-roundup-david-shaw-quarterback-competition-burns-chryst

It's being reported that Coach Shaw took a shot at the intelligence of SEC country despite having approximately 20 players on his roster from states that have an SEC school.   From the context, it doesn't seem to me that he was denigrating the South, but Finebaum and the rest of Southern talk radio have picked it up and run with it.

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MGoBender

April 12th, 2016 at 10:30 AM ^

I don't disagree that people are overly sensitive about a lot of things.

I do think it's a step far for someone in a prominent professional leadership position to say that "one person in that entire state can get into Stanford."  That's wholly unprofessional.

However, it's also hilarious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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PopeLando

April 12th, 2016 at 12:17 PM ^

The sad part is that there should be more than one or two people who are both good at football and smart enough for Stanford. The impression I get (anecdotal only) is that intelligence is not necessarily welcome in a lot of places. Smart kids can become dumb teenagers through neglect and negative feedback. People take pride in their ignorance more than I like to think about. This isn't just a southern problem, but it does seem more widespread amongst people from that region.

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Rabbit21

April 12th, 2016 at 12:02 PM ^

They have gone straight up feral over that.  I live in Nashville and the Tennessee fans at work(there aren;t many because almost no-one is actually from Nashville) are wholly unreasonable in their Harbaugh hate now, I first got an inkling satellite camps would go away as a matter of revenge when every single Tennessee fan told me they hope Harbaugh loses every game from here on out.  I think because deep down they know what's going on isn;t a good look and didn't like the added publicity/having a coach mention the issue.

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Rabbit21

April 12th, 2016 at 12:37 PM ^

I was not the guy talking about MgoBlog at Brewhouse South, but will happily be in the future. I would love to find some more alums in the area(know a few Ross Grads, but that's the extent of it) and joined the group.  I live about five miles from Brewhouse South and would be happy to hit up a few more events.  

The guy who owns  the Classic Sports barbershop in downtown Franklin is from Detroit and a big Michigan fan and is a lot of fun to talk to about UM and Detroit sports if you're ever in the need of a good barber.  

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the Bray

April 12th, 2016 at 10:09 AM ^

So if Stanford has 20 kids on the roster from SEC states and there are what - 8 SEC states (TX, TN, SC, FL, LA, MS, AL, GA) that means he's getting the smartest kid from 5 of those states every year.  

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Roughneck

April 12th, 2016 at 10:09 AM ^

Just another example of the south's selective outrage. I've lived in the south for years and love it but their college football pride is unbearable.

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M Go Dead

April 12th, 2016 at 10:10 AM ^

It doesn't seem like he is completely trashing the intelligence of any state, but it is some misplaced hyperbole. But it is great that SEC fans are looking out for the little guy.

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Ali G Bomaye

April 12th, 2016 at 10:11 AM ^

Sure, it's denigrating the intelligence of SEC Country as a whole.  But it's arguably a selling point for Stanford.  If he lets it be known that he can only consider a couple kids per state, and then a kid from that state gets a letter saying Stanford wants him to come, that's a pretty high compliment.  It doesn't do Stanford any good to appease the kids who can't get in there anyway.

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bronxblue

April 12th, 2016 at 10:48 AM ^

Yeah, that was my sense as well. His point was solid, but it comes across as "these kids won't help me win, so whatever." And I'm not claiming that any other coaches go to these camps purely to be humanitarians, but they absolutely coach up kids they would never offer because it lets other coaches give them a look as well.

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