Having each spent the better part of the past month on the same side in the fight to save satellite camps in college football, Jim Harbaugh and Urban Meyer have proved to make a formidable tag team. But now that the NCAA has lifted its three-week long ban of the controversial recruiting practice, the Michigan head coach and his Ohio State counterpart can once again return to the roles they were born to play in the college football world. And if anyone was under the assumption Harbaugh and Meyer would remain unlikely allies past their interest in a common cause, it didn’t take long for college football’s most famous rivalry to reignite. In fact, as a result of their recent efforts, the bad blood between the Buckeyes and Wolverines has only intensified. “We certainly monitor everything,” Meyer answered when asked about Michigan this past signing day. “We know everything that everybody’s doing.” Having brought satellite camps to the forefront of college football a year ago, Harbaugh hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down now that the practice is legal in every conference across the country. After last year’s “Swarm Tour” included 10 camps in seven states over an eight-day span, this summer’s sequel already possesses 14 planned stops, according to a list compiled by the Detroit News. But while Harbaugh may be the king of satellite camps, Meyer plans on increasing his participation in the practice this offseason as well. In addition to a previously scheduled camp in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Ohio State will also host a camp at Fort Lauderdale’s St. Thomas Aquinas High School, the school confirmed to Bleacher Report earlier this week. “Ohio State, not surprisingly because it’s a national brand, has had great success recruiting in Florida,” Meyer said in 2014, when his team hosted practices at St. …
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