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Ambivalence And The Satellite Camps: Dytarious Johnson

Dytarious Johnson's story ensures the controversy isn't going away.

Satellite camps can evoke ambivalence when a "Rudy" image is juxtaposed against the reality of a uniform rule designed to afford coaches, players, everyone a break from recruiting.

On one hand, the camps are little more recruiting opportunities and facetime for coaches who are deprived of regional talent -- no matter what their proponents suggest. The SEC's closure of its loophole has merely allowed conference coaches to now travel and exploit the same rule that the Big Ten has exercised for the past few years. Nonetheless, it is a loophole that the Rules Committee can't have seriously contemplated when the measure was first enacted.