If nothing else, Jim Harbaugh is getting quite a jersey collection.
Harbaugh, the Michigan head football coach who has become the face for summer satellite camps for college programs, has hit the ground running.
A quick trip through Twitter shows Harbaugh sporting:
A Jaguars jersey at a camp in Jacksonville, Fla.
A Braves, not a Falcons jersey, at a camp in Atlanta. Maybe that had something to do with the fact Hall of Famer Hank Aaron was there to speak to the campers.
An Andrew Luck shirt at a camp in Indianapolis.
So, beside local sporting good stores, who is gaining anything from satellite camps?
It may be years before anyone can intelligently answer that question.
In late April, the NCAA voted to approve satellite camps, which are on-campus coaching clinics attended by potential college football players. High school football players can attend a camp in their area and have the opportunity to work in organized drills in front of assembled college coaches.
In the past, players would have had to travel to the school for such an opportunity in the summer. And that's the way some coaches wish it would have remained
Harbaugh and Alabama coach Nick Saban had a little war of words regarding satellite camps. Harbaugh has scheduled stops in 38 of them for Michigan, including stops in Australia and American Samoa, while Saban made it quite clear Alabama could do without.
Saban is a little ticked Harbaugh - and now other schools from the North - have a way to increase their recruiting presence in the fertile Southeast. But since Saban's getting pretty much any player he wants from anywhere he wants, I don't know how much stock I put into his "amazing" tirade.
In case you're wondering, Missouri has plans to attend around a dozen or so. And not in Australia or American Samoa.
One positive I can see is exposure for players to schools a notch or two below the Top 25. Young men may have dreams of Alabama or Michigan when they hear coaches from those schools will be in attendance at a camp. But there will also be coaches from smaller Division I schools there as well and the hours working at the camps may give them a leg up when it comes to a scholarship offer this fall when the big schools don't come calling.
Saban did make a good point satellite camps are a minefield full of potential serious recruiting violations.
On Saturday, there were reports Harbaugh was told to stop posing for photos or signing autographs for campers in Florida after being told it was an NCAA violation.
Saban tried to warn us. We should have listened.