Urbz gets in on the camp nix bashing - helpful
This cannot but help the cause. Rivalry animosity aside, his is a powerful voice. The man used to coach at those mid-tier schools so he speaks from experience and knows the damage this will do to their recruiting and scouting efforts.
Good Lord, the only thing worse than "Urbz" is "Harbs."
Thats Harbz to you buddy.
Because of his celebrity and social media procolivities, I noticed that Sparties have started calling Harbaugh "Hardashian." I gotta admit, that made me laugh. 99% more clever than I thoughts Sparty capable of...
wrote that for them...like all the papers the players turn in.
#ConsistencyIsKey
Kanye East Lansing
absolutely perfect reply. one of my favorite scenes of any movie.
Looks like I'll need the next seven month before The Game to rebuild my hate for him. Thanks...U.M.!?!
And he should. He's smart enough to realize that we share a common enemy in the SEC/NCAA/ESPN Axis alliance that has one goal and that is the preservation of the SEC dominance in football.
In this one particular instance the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
And Jim Delany's further thoughts on this topic....
Was just going to post this. His comments are spot on. I don't like the guy one bit, but I can appreciate his talent at coaching and agree that his voice is powerful. And he just slammed the NCAA on two fronts - the camp ban and the communications deregulation. Reluctant hand salute to the purveyors of toxic nuts...
/now I'm off to the shower...
I just read this.
Is hell freezing over, because Urban Meyer is actually making sense !!
Say whatever you want to say about Meyer's character, but compared to Saban he's a saint.
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Except for the fact that Urban was one of the early voices against satellite camps last year once he caught wind that Harbaugh was holding them. Urban held a couple camps too, but only reluctantly, to keep up with UM. Now, Urban is simply being opportunistic, pretending to be the champion of satellite camps. Please.
From last year: http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2015/04/urban_meyer_satellite_camp_flo.html
I will take opportunistic Urban if it puts heat on the NCAA.
The enemy of my enemy, etc.
What Urban came out against was not Satellite camps in general - it was the way Harbaugh was using them - nationwide recruiting tours.
He was making the same complaints as the SEC. And now we're giving him credit for making an about face?
In other words, he came out against the nationwide satellite camps once Harbaugh started doing them, and now he is defending them after the NCAA has issued its ban (and it is the popular stance to take). It's hypocrisy.
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The smaller schools can and do participate in the camps of larger schools, even when those camps are located off-campus, such as USF and Michigan working a camp together last summer. So, Urban's current support of satellite camps does, in fact, reach the off-campus "Summer Swarm"-type camps, and that is what bothers me given his past complaints of the same.
There is a difference between going on a tour through the South and holding a camp at OSU that Bowling Green can no longer attend. Or even a regional camp like SMSB.
need to create a group consisting of players from every level of competition affected, from high school to NAIA to DIII to DII to DI student athletes (and even NFL players that were "discovered" at these camps), to voice their colllective disagreement with this ruling. Coaches comments are helpful, but they are looked at with skepticism due to having skin in the game. The players are the only ones that can escalate this into a real issue that the public gets behind (and then eventually forces the NCAA's hand). Creating a coordinated grass roots effort by players would be easy for everyone to get behind and it could quickly gain momentum and become a very loud problem that the NCAA would have to address in order to avoid negative publicity.
You foolishly assume that the NCAA cares even an iota about what the student-athletes want, or honestly about negative publicity. The only thing that will convince them to change this is if the NCAA figures out how to monetize the camps, or if the SEC comes onboard with them.
Wasn't Meyer planning on doing a satellite camp in Georgia? This would only help his cause.
Yes, the Devil was going to go down to Georgia.
Looking for a soul to steal...
Thank you EGJ, that song will now be in my head for the rest of the afternoon.
is this Urbz guy?
Never heard of him.
Must be an insubstantial guy.
From an insubstantial school.
Opportunistic move..but good anyway.
Take a look back about a year ago at Meyer's comments when Harbaugh started the Swarm. He said something to the effect of 'not a fan of that...(sat camps)...we think its important to get them on our campus'.
I think he knows this looks good in the eyes of local recruits...sticking up for the kids.
“I’m not worried about the high-level players because they’re going to find a way to get where they’ve got to get. I’m talking about … there’s a big chunk of players out there that deserve to play major college football. I hope they revisit it.”
Whether you like him or not, he's spot on here even if he's being rather political about his support (which is kind of how Meyer seems to play things). This needs to be revisited - and reversed - for the sake of a lot of kids who, while talented and deserving, will not get the requisite number of stars and will not get the offers that they might otherwise if coaches from other staffs cannot freely travel to camps to see them and vice versa.
If SEC Coaches need more family time there's a RIGHT way to do it that doesn't hurt the kids*. All you need to do is sincerely, in a tearful press conference realize that you need to get healthy*, take a year working for ESPN, and then get another job and do nothing different except sign a "contract" wtih your family.
*Kids on your team notwithstanding
**Getting healthy means realizing your team is crap and getting out before that hurts your record, allegedly having an affair with a grad student and placating your wife
I'm still amused, if unsurprised, that a plurality of the toolbag commentariat at 11w says that the satellite camp ban is all Harbaugh's fault. Or "Hairball", in the parlance of those erudite mouthbreathing sister-fondlers.
Harbaugh is now giving the commencement speech at Paramus haha.... Now the NCAA will look to ban that.
They will ban appearances at commencements and classrooms for coaches and players.
The one line in the article that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's just me being overly sensitive in my love of Harbaugh, but it makes it sound like he's being lazy on the subject. He's obviously taking a very calculated response to the topic; nobody needs to be reminded what his opinion on it is.
Board of Directors votes to allow satellite camps at their April 28th vote. This is fantastic news.
Harbaugh's quiet politics response--remaining silent and allowing athletes and other coaches to mount the assault--is brilliant. I imagine it hasn't been easy to bite his tongue the past couple days, but it may yet pay off--
Because now it's not Jim Harbaugh vs. NCAA, it's everybody vs. NCAA. And that may yet move the needle.
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