Jim Harbaugh: Satellite-camp ban would be 'another dumb rule'

Published Mar. 31, 2016 2:10 p.m. ET

Allyssa Lee

The NCAA is getting set to vote on the SEC and ACC's proposed limitations on satellite camps next month, and once again, Jim Harbaugh has reiterated that he is not on board.

The Michigan football coach drew some shade from the conferences recently when Harbaugh scheduled to have part of the Wolverines' spring practices at the IMG Academy in Florida, said to be the top high school football program in the country.

Both the SEC and the ACC had proposed the NCAA limit camps to facilities "regularly used by the program," thereby eliminating satellite camps altogether.

Unsurprisingly, Harbaugh told "The Michigan Insider" radio program on WTKA-1050 AM that voting to pass these proposals would lead to "another dumb rule" and took a swipe at the NCAA's dubious regulations altogether.

"The camps, in terms of allies, we're doing camps again, very collegial gestures working together in a spirit of coaching football again with South Florida, with Baylor this year, with Iowa State," Harbaugh told WTKA, the Detroit News reports. "We do have allies and we'll continue that effort.

"Don't see why that would change, but there's a lot of rules that have been made that aren't the best rules. You can't say that you could put that past rule-makers to make another dumb rule."

The NCAA will vote on the proposals in April.