Any time the NCAA makes changes to recruiting legislation, people are quick to point out who gains the most with the decision. And make no mistake, the SEC was the big winner with Friday’s decision by the Division I Council to ban satellite camps effective immediately. But lost in all the finger-pointing at the SEC was the fact there’s also a major loser with the NCAA’s ruling -- the high-school football recruit.
Satellite camps have been a hot-button issue in the recruiting world for the past five years and Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 teams have conducted them all over the country, but they reached national awareness after Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh conducted an eight-day “Summer Swarm” tour in 2015 that took the Wolverines' deep into SEC recruiting territory.