AUBURN AUTHORITY

Gus Malzahn against Michigan satellite camp at Prattville

James Crepea
Montgomery Advertiser
Auburn coach Gus Malzahn has three goals for his program this spring.

AUBURN -- Jim Harbaugh isn't going to get a warm welcome from Gus Malzahn when the Michigan staff attends a satellite camp at Prattville on June 5.

SEC coaches were in lockstep against satellite camps held by FBS programs in the conference's footprint, a practice against SEC rules, after James Franklin and the Penn State staff held such camps at Stetson and Georgia State last year.

Schools can only host camps within a 50-mile radius of their campus, but football staffs around the country are increasingly serving as "guests" of camps held at schools outside their state in order to better recruit the talent rich SEC.


Malzahn reiterated his stance against satellite camps in light of Harbaugh and the Michigan staff coming to Prattville.

"I think the SEC coaches last year made it clear that we'd like it to be that way throughout the country," Malzahn said. "That was a stance after our last spring meetings and I still feel the same."

Michigan's stop in Prattville is part of a weeklong string of camps throughout the country by the Michigan staff, according to the Detroit Free Press, as Harbaugh and his staff are also scheduled to be a part of camps in Tampa, Pennsylvania, Houston, Dallas and California.