Angelique S. Chengelis

The Detroit News

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and his staff have added a second satellite camp in Alabama this summer, not surprisingly, in Prattville.

The Prattville camp is scheduled June 7, a day after Michigan will camp about three hours away in Madison, Ala. Harbaugh and his staff participated in the Prattville High camp last year, when Harbaugh famously took his shirt off while playing “Peru ball.”

Michigan’s satellite camp tour is taking shape – the staff will be in the Atlanta-area June 2, at the USF Camp in Tampa on June 4, at the Bob Jones High in Madison, Ala. on June 6, at Pearl (Miss.) High on June 8, and in Dallas on June 13 for the Showtyme Elite camp.

Prattville coach Chad Anderson said he expects between 250 and 400 kids at the camp.

“There’s excitement having a group of guys coming here with a big-name coach,” Anderson said this week. “And you have coach Harbaugh working with the kids face-to-face. Hearing another person coach you, they may say it a little differently than you’re used to hearing and that may spark something.”

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Harbaugh’s satellite camp schedule last year – Michigan dubbed it the “Swarm Tour” – sparked criticism from many SEC and ACC coaches, in part because their conferences do not allow them to work camps outside of a 50-mile radius from their campuses.

Anderson said he heard a bit from Alabama assistant coaches last summer.

“I don’t blame them,” Anderson said. “They’re protecting their territory. I don’t think it’s hurting them. They’re getting who they want to get. If an Alabama offers a kid in Prattville and a Michigan offers the same kid, you’ve got things some things working there. A lot of kids don’t want to move. I don’t think it really hurts (an Alabama) from that point.”

For Anderson, having Harbaugh and his staff working a camp at his school gives him an opportunity to learn, as well.

“You see them doing stuff you already do, and that gives (the players) a justification why you’re doing it,” Anderson said. “We all steal from each other, plays or drills or whatever it may be. You pick up things here and there. If I’m sitting in class or in church or in clinic, if I can pick up one thing from each clinic or meeting, you can amass a ton of knowledge. I’m always looking for that one thing that can make me a better coach.”