Notre Dame AD: NCAA ban on satellite camps might not hold up in court

Published Apr. 29, 2015 2:29 p.m. ET

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With recruiting territory more precious than gold to many college football coaches these days, satellite camps are becoming a quite controversial talking point. And if the controversy winds up in a courtroom, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick doesn't believe the NCAA would be able to defend an outright ban on them, according to Jon Solomon of CBSSports.com.

"The NCAA does not have a very good track record of limiting, without losing an antitrust lawsuit, economic opportunities for coaches," Swarbrick said this week, per CBSSports.com. "So they should be treading very lightly. The perception is these are school opportunities. A lot of these are coach opportunities purely. Imagine a rule that said, as was introduced years ago, coaches couldn't do national televised advertising because it created a recruiting advantage. … I wouldn't want to defend those lawsuits."

Most of the opposition has come from the ACC and SEC, where coaches from these conferences have a stranglehold on perhaps the most fertile recruiting ground—the southeastern United States.

NCAA President Mark Emmert promises the growing issue of satellite camps "will be at the top of the list for the NCAA's Football Oversight Committee," according to CBSSports.com.

(h/t CBSSports.com)

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