Utah football signed three-star linebacker Davir Hamilton in February, but the real work started in 2013.
Before the linebacker and receiver from Long Beach Poly was a three-star recruit, he was an impressionable ninth-grader. That's when he first ran across Utah's staff at a satellite camp in California.
"That's when I really got to know them," Hamilton said in an interview back on Signing Day. "They were really consistent."
Recruiting success stories like Hamilton will be cut off for Utah in the wake of an NCAA decision to end satellite camps.
The NCAA's Division I council ruled on Friday that FBS programs will only be able to hold camps at their facilities regularly used for either practice or competition.