Auburn coach: Harbaugh won’t steal recruits from Tigers, Tide
Count Auburn running backs coach Tim Horton among those who isn’t too worried about the NCAA Board of Governors' decision to rescind its ban on satellite camps last week.
In fact, Horton said the reversal was “no big deal” Monday at an alumni club event.
“I may get myself in trouble for this: For people that want to come to Alabama and have a camp, I think its great because they’re helping the quality of football in the state of Alabama,” Horton said in a Ledger-Enquirer story on Tuesday.
“No one is coming to this state and getting a player from Auburn or Alabama. That’s not going to happen.”
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh ruffled plenty of feathers with his multi-state “Swarm Tour” last summer that ventured into SEC territory, and already has several satellite camps planned in southern and western states.
Horton said he doesn’t think Auburn will follow Harbaugh’s tactic and will stay in its “regional footprint” when it comes to recruiting.
“When you talk Alabama, Georgia and Florida, that’s where we’re going to make our hay, and that’ll always be where we make our hay,” Horton said. “So I don’t see a big need to go out west or up north or something like that.”
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey stated the conference plans to lift its ban on working camps effective May 29, meaning SEC teams would be allowed to participate in camps this summer.