Mike Leach is floored about NCAA’s satellite camps ban

Washington State Cougars head football coach Mike Leach is livid about the NCAA’s decision to ban satellite football camps effective immediately Friday.

Washington State Cougars head football coach Mike Leach is known for primarily two things on college sidelines: 1.) a vaunted Air Raid attack that can get well over 400 yards passing every Saturday. 2.) Speaking his mind when things don’t go his way.

On Friday, the NCAA announced that all satellite football camps were to be banned immediately. For Leach, this is awful news, as he and his Cougars staff cannot hold their third annual football camp in California. The Seattle Times’ Stefanie Loh points out that 15 of Washington State’s 25 commits to the 2016 recruiting class were from California.

Being that Pullman, Washington isn’t chock full of NFL-level talent, Leach spoke to Loh on the NCAA’s decision to ban satellite camps that will obviously have a negative impact on his football program.

Leach said Friday, “It appears to me that some universities and conferences are willing to sacrifice the interests of potential student athletes for no better reasons to selfishly monopolize their recruiting bases. I will be fascinated to hear any legitimate reasoning behind this ruling.”

While the Pac-12 previously had no limitations on satellite football camps, it seems that some of the other Power 5 institutions were frankly taking advantage of these camps to poach players out of certain state’s backyards.

Though there are still plenty of Division I football players from California that would love nothing more than to play on fall Saturdays at any one of the 12 Pac-12 schools, it seems that small football schools like Washington State University are the ones that will feel the NCAA ban on satellite camps most severely.

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