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Jim Harbaugh says he'll support the NCAA's new proposed satellite camp legislation.

(Melanie Maxwell | MLive.com)

ANN ARBOR -- The NCAA is working to legislate satellite camps again.

But this time, they're not talking about taking the camps away completely.

As a result, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh says he's in favor of the new proposed legislation that would limit teams to participating in camps during a 10-day period starting next offseason.

In addition, the camps would have to be held at facilities owned and operated by an NCAA-member institution -- meaning high schools would be out.

"That would take away a lot of fun, we did close to 50 last year and that was a lot of fun," Harbaugh said Thursday. "But, heck, if every school is doing 10 then that'd probably be more than what was done last year. So there's a possibility it's a really good thing, where everyone carries the water.

"The big thing is that football's being spread across the country and youngsters are getting good coaching and have opportunities to show what they can do."

Harbaugh was easily the biggest critic of the NCAA's original decision to ban the camps completely last offseason. That decision ultimately was overturned before last summer with the condition that the entire rule would be re-visited before next year.

Under the previous rule, schools could participate in camps during two 15-day periods in the month of June. That time will be shaved down, but there was no specific language about how many a coaching staff can be at in a day.

Harbaugh attended multiple camps a day throughout last year's massive satellite tour.

Either way, though, he says he's all for the new legislation. As long as the camps live on.

"It's got a chance to be a really good (thing)," Harbaugh said. "The only negative would be that we'll have less fun (as a coaching staff).

"If you do the math, if everybody did 10, that'd be phenomenal. That'd be a lot and it'd be phenomenal for the youngsters who are being introduced to football or reintroduced to football at the high school level. ... I'm going to be for it. I think it could be a real positive."