HUGE setback for recruiting

[BJC]

Can someone explain why MWC voted this way?

 

[seattlecowboy]

Can someone explain why MWC voted this way?

Most likely Craig Thompson asked the presidents about it and they decided to vote against it to save money. People want to blame Thompson but he isn't just going to vote on it without the presidents approval. You can bet the presidents decided to vote that way just like they did with the basketball tournament.

That would be my guess.

 

[GoPokes86]

The SEC once again shows that it owns the NCAA. I can't believe Thompson voted in favor of this, that dude needs to be canned ASAP.

 

[laxwyo]

Can someone explain why MWC voted this way?

Most likely Craig Thompson asked the presidents about it and they decided to vote against it to save money. People want to blame Thompson but he isn't just going to vote on it without the presidents approval. You can bet the presidents decided to vote that way just like they did with the basketball tournament.

That would be my guess.

Haha, yeah just like the number of teams they were going to allow at the MW tournament? That seemed to be a decision every school hated but they tried it anyway. I think Thompson probably got some of that SEC recruiting action love.

 

[Wyovanian]

This has nothing to do with Wyoming. We don't hold spring camp in Florida or California or Texas. This is t talking about HS camps you have on your campus, it's about having camps where your actual team is practicing elsewhere, case in point Michigan .

Sure about that?

The NCAA has shut down satellite camps, effective immediately, with a ruling Friday by the Division I Council that requires FBS programs to conduct all clinics at school facilities or facilities regularly used for practice or competition.

These are the camps that we've run in Oklahoma the last few years, no?

There's a loophole even Mexico could fly a space shuttle through...

 

[TSpoke]

Can someone explain why MWC voted this way?

I'm guessing the schools voted which way to vote. And more schools voted against it. I am willing to bet the California schools and UNLV voted against it. The schools that are in good recruiting areas don't want to have competition for the local kids. Still need another couple schools to vote to ban it but I don't know who would have.

 

[ragtimejoe1]

Personally, I'd like to see some data on how effective these are at recruiting anyway. In other words, how many recruits attend these camps and end up signing?

I'm too lazy to dig it up, but does anyone know if all of our Oklahoma kids attended our camps in OK first then signed?

 

[Wicks]

My take on all of this is up on the blog...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/WyoNationBlog/status/719569551055192065[/tweet]

 

[Wyokie]

Article on it and how it would affect the Okie schools from the local fishwrap AKA The Daily Bullshit....

http://newsok.com/ncaa-division-i-council-bans-satellite-camps-a-decision-that-will-affect-both-oklahoma-and-oklahoma-state/article/5490411

Some of the comments at the bottom are fun to read but there are shitty spammers selling shit.

 

[ragtimejoe1]

MWC must be trying to be bff with the Big 12 and Pac 12. Dumb move.

Urban Meyer made comments about how smaller schools going to Ohio State camps led to hundreds of scholarships over the years. Now, those coaches aren't allowed to go to Ohio State camps so lots of missed opportunities for kids that aren't a 4 or 5 star recruit.

 

[WestWYOPoke]

A little humor around the whole thing.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday...6/ways-michigan-can-still-use-satellite-camps

My particular favorite...

Build series of Dave and Buster's-style restaurants in Texas, California, Florida, and other fertile recruiting hotbeds. Oh look a forty yard dash machine--

 

[Wyovanian]

Just designate a kicking practice and training facility in Oklahoma, etc., and it's a "regular" practice facility. Let the NCAA try to prove that case and push the subject to the top of the page. They'll lose that PR battle pretty quickly...

 

[laxwyo]

Just designate a kicking practice and training facility in Oklahoma, etc., and it's a "regular" practice facility. Let the NCAA try to prove that case and push the subject to the top of the page. They'll lose that PR battle pretty quickly...

Be like what our baseball team did back in the day. I believe they went to Arizona for a large chunk of the year.

You could potentially set up a variety of "facilities"

 

[cali2wyo]

I was just thinking... is this for all sports? For example, our golf team hosts a tournament in Arizona every year during the season since spring in Laramie is a bit too unpredictable. Is that now against the rules?

 

[WestWYOPoke]

I was just thinking... is this for all sports? For example, our golf team hosts a tournament in Arizona every year during the season since spring in Laramie is a bit too unpredictable. Is that now against the rules?

No, this rule is for high school camps hosted/ran by colleges, the golf tournament is a college competition.

 

[cali2wyo]

I was just thinking... is this for all sports? For example, our golf team hosts a tournament in Arizona every year during the season since spring in Laramie is a bit too unpredictable. Is that now against the rules?

No, this rule is for high school camps hosted/ran by colleges, the golf tournament is a college competition.

But this ban also applies to college athletes as well, like Michigan's spring practices in Florida this year, right?

 

[TSpoke]

I was just thinking... is this for all sports? For example, our golf team hosts a tournament in Arizona every year during the season since spring in Laramie is a bit too unpredictable. Is that now against the rules?

No, this rule is for high school camps hosted/ran by colleges, the golf tournament is a college competition.

But this ban also applies to college athletes as well, like Michigan's spring practices in Florida this year, right?

I think so but we still had a practice/scrimmage in Cheyenne so maybe it just means camps.

 

[wyokoke]

I was just thinking... is this for all sports? For example, our golf team hosts a tournament in Arizona every year during the season since spring in Laramie is a bit too unpredictable. Is that now against the rules?

No, this rule is for high school camps hosted/ran by colleges, the golf tournament is a college competition.

But this ban also applies to college athletes as well, like Michigan's spring practices in Florida this year, right?

I think so but we still had a practice/scrimmage in Cheyenne so maybe it just means camps.

It's within 50 miles of campus I believe...so maybe campus to East is like 48?

 

[joshvanklomp]

But this ban also applies to college athletes as well, like Michigan's spring practices in Florida this year, right?

No. Those aren't satellite camps. Those are spring practices.

 

[WestWYOPoke]

No, as far as I understand, this is ONLY for high school camps, schools can still have spring ball, fall camp, practices, scrimmages, etc. wherever they want.