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Takeaways from the stunning and silly satellite camp saga

For 20 angst-ridden April days, satellite camps -- freakin’ satellite camps! -- filled the college football news cycle. Digest that for a moment.

We now await the satellite camp miniseries starring Bill Paxton as Jim Harbaugh and Christopher Meloni as Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott.

Early Thursday afternoon, the NCAA Division I Board briefly diverted attention from the NFL draft by rescinding a ban on satellite camps. The NCAA’s Division I Council had imposed the ban on April 8 following a highly controversial vote. The ban led to widespread outcry, Scott’s stunning public rebuke of UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero, and a report that the U.