Penn State HC James Franklin has pulled out all the stops to turn the Nittany Lions into a recruiting powerhouse, but he may have bent the rules a little too far for some of his former colleagues in the SEC.
StateCollege.com's Ben Jones reports that Franklin's plan to make guest appearances at football summer camps in Georgia and Florida has drawn the ire of a number of SEC coaches. The SEC and Big 10 both forbid coaches from hosting camps more than 50 miles outside of their home campus, but an NCAA rulebook loophole (one that the B1G recognizes but the SEC doesn't) lets Franklin make 'guest appearances' at camps.
Since he isn't hosting the camps himself and is technically "guest coaching", there's nothing SEC schools can do to keep him out of their back yard. Les Miles called Franklin's plan "not right", and a number of other SEC coaches also spoke out against it.
Franklin will travel to Georgia State University in Atlanta and Stetson University in Florida, and called the trips an opportunity to "take the Penn State brand and be able to take it to part of the country [where] maybe young men and families wouldn't be able to make it to our place."
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