Written by Sam Cooper at YahooSports.com
For the third time this year, Jim Harbaugh called out an SEC head coach on Twitter.
After previously firing shots at Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Tennessee’s Butch Jones, the Michigan head coach turned his attention to a bigger target: Alabama’s Nick Saban.
Earlier on Tuesday, Saban ranted about satellite camps, saying they are bad for college football. Saban also spoke about potential NCAA rules violations that could emerge when third parties are involved in the camps, which Harbaugh brought to the forefront of college football last summer.
It didn’t take long for Harbaugh to respond.
“Amazing” to me- Alabama broke NCAA rules & now their HC is lecturing us on the possibility of rules being broken at camps. Truly “amazing.”
Don’t hold back, Jim!
When mentioning broken NCAA rules, Harbaugh is presumably referencing the resignation of Alabama defensive line coach Bo Davis. Davis stepped down in April, reportedly forimpermissible contact with “multiple out-of-state recruits.”
Saban compared the satellite camps to the AAU circuit in college basketball recruiting. Harbaugh obviously did not agree with the sentiment.
“Anybody can have a camp now and if they have a prospect, they can have a camp,” Saban said. “Then you’re expected to go to that camp and they can use you to promote their camp because Ohio State’s coming, Alabama’s coming, whoever else is coming. Somebody sponsors the camp. They pay them the money. What do they do with the money? And who makes sure the kid paid to go to the camp? I mean, this is the wild, wild West at its best because there’s no specific guidelines relative to how we’re managing or controlling this stuff.”
Because of that possible third-party involvement, in Saban’s eyes, there is unintended potential for NCAA violations.
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