He is one of the most prolific characters in sports in this country, so of course he is at the forefront of one of the controversial camps to be held in the off-season.
Coach Jim Harbaugh still has a ways to go before taking the field for his Michigan football campaign, but he is grabbing plenty of headlines with his “Exposure U” satellite camp–not to be confused with his “A4” QB camp–which he is boasting that about 70 schools will be represented.
“I love it that Ivy League coaches are coming to our camp. Big Ten coaches are coming to our camp. Florida coaches…South Florida is coming, we’ve got about 70 schools that are coming to our camp,” Harbaugh told Jim Rome.
The controversy really has little to do with the Michigan football program and more to with whether or not a coach is opposed to the satellite camp concept. CollegeSpun–who has been following the developement of this camp for a couple months now–reports that the SEC has full-on turned down the camp, while fellow Big 10 coach Urban Meyer has vocally been against the concept for quite some time.
(That could totally be new fuel for a coaches’ rivalry come the start of the season, but let’s not get too ahead of ourselves just yet.)
Opposition to the roaming camp has, of course, not discouraged Harbaugh’s efforts. He even took to Twitter in late April to announce that the invitation of two coaches per school “to participate in teaching the game of football properly.”
Quite the troll job–even snarkier than half the troll tweets Harbaugh has aimed at the Niners since the two “mutually parted ways” this past winter.
Now it is just a matter of waiting to see how successful this satellite camp actually is–and how many schools are in fact represented.
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