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While SEC confronts ‘wild, wild West’ of satellite camps, Kirby Smart and UGA ready for busy week ahead

DESTIN, Fla. | Nick Saban went a little Nikita Khruschev when getting worked up talking about satellite camps Tuesday on the first day of the SEC spring meetings.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on May 31, 2016 at the league’s spring meetings in Destin, Fla. (Marc Weiszer/Staff)

The Alabama football coach banged a lectern to make his point about what he views as the “wild, wild West.”

Georgia coach Kirby Smart spoke dispassionately about the new world of satellite camps that SEC coaches will embark on starting later this week.

The SEC won a brief victory to outlaw the camps that the Big Ten used to recruit while serving as “guest coaches” in the talent-rich Southeast, but the NCAA reversed course and is allowing them again while seeking reccomendations for the NCAA Division I Council by Sept.