Greg Sankey

SEC's Greg Sankey (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

The SEC's stance on satellite camps - or "recruiting tours" as it refers to them - has not changed.

With Jim Harbaugh and part of his Michigan staff making a stop in Alabama to participate in a June 4 camp at Prattville High, the league recently asked its coaches if they would like to see the SEC's rules reevaluated to accommodate the NCAA's loophole on football camps.

"An institution's sports camp or clinic shall be conducted on the institution's campus, within the state in which the institution is located or, if outside the state, within a 50-mile radius of the institution's campus," states NCAA Rule 13.12.1.2.

But much to the dismay of Power Five coaches, Penn State's James Franklin started a trend last summer when he and his coaches traveled to Florida and Georgia to participate in camps at Stetson and Georgia State.

SEC and ACC bylaws prevent its coaches from doing the same.

"Ironically, when we're talking about satellite camps - as we remember camps, they were instructional and development opportunities," said incoming SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, on Monday during the Associated Press Sports Editors' Southeast Region meeting at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.

"Now, what we're talking about is recruiting tours. So, let's just be clear about what we're really talking about here."

The league's coaches would like to see national legislation passed that prevents programs,like Harbaugh's, from setting up "recruiting tours" in their backyard - Prattville High is just 70 miles west of Auburn.

As part of the NCAA Division I Leadership Council Football Recruiting Subcommittee, Sankey said he plans on raising the issue, if no one else does.

"We're going to have a camp at Penn State," joked current SEC commissioner Mike Slive, who will retire in July.

Added Sankey: "I'm not sure that the others want our coaches going to places like State College, Pennsylvania. Because very clearly, if we do take the approach that others have ... it will certainly, I would expect, change the tone of the conversation.

"Part of what I appreciate among our coaches is they view the responsible thing to do is to focus our camps on campus."