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Here's why Hugh Freeze and Jim Harbaugh are beefing over satellite camps

The head coaches at Ole Miss and Michigan have been trading barbs in the media recently. What's the deal with these satellite camps, and why do they have everyone so riled up?

Satellite camps have been in the news a lot lately, with both knowledgeable and horribly uninformed people wanting to give their two cents. My hope is that I'm more of the former, but my wife may contend otherwise.

Jim Harbaugh wanted to set up satellite camps in the South.

For those of you who don't know, a satellite camp, a concept championed by Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, is basically just a formal evaluation of a large number of recruits which occurs outside of the college-in-question's own "stomping grounds.