Gus Malzahn displeased with Jim Harbaugh attending satellite camp

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Auburn coach Gus Malzahn voiced his opinion against Jim Harbaugh attending a satellite camp hosted by Alabama high school power Prattville.

The camp is intended to show off rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. Under NCAA rules, coaches are not allowed to host football camps more than 50 miles away from their campus. But they can be invited as guests, and that's where the controversy occurs.

Penn State coach James Franklin caused a ruckus last year when he discovered this loophole. It essentially allows coaches from other conferences to recruit in SEC territory. The obvious response would be for SEC coaches to do the same thing, but they can't. Under SEC rules, the conference doesn't allow coaches to be guest coaches at these camps.

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Malzahn voiced his opinion last year with other SEC coaches and he spoke out again Tuesday.

"I think the SEC coaches last year made it clear that we'd like it to be that way throughout the country," Malzahn said, via the Montgomery Advertiser. "That was a stance after our last spring meetings and I still feel the same."

SEC commissioner Mike Slive said last year, when Franklin was traveling down south, he was going to take the issue to the NCAA. But the rules remain in place.

Harbaugh isn't just stopping at Alabama. He's also traveling to Tampa, Houston, Dallas, Pennsylvania and California this June, so this likely won't be the last time we hear about this issue.

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Jordan Heck is a social media producer at Sporting News