Brilliant Move by James Franklin

With Franklin at Penn State, the Nittany Lions have upped their recruiting game, and have begun to push Virginia Tech and others for Maryland's and Northern Virginia's top prospects. Give credit where it's due, Franklin's idea to exploit a loophole and hold football camps in the south is brilliant: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10998077/sec-coaches-want....

Franklin and his Penn State staff plan to coach and work with prospects at camps at Georgia State University in Atlanta and Stetson University in Deland, Florida.

"Our thought was that the Big Ten and NCAA rules allow you to do these things," Franklin told reporters earlier this month. "And we wanted to not only have camps on our campus -- which we're going to have a bunch of them -- but also be able to maybe take the Penn State brand and be able to take it to part of the country [where] maybe young men and families wouldn't be able to make it to our place. And I'm fired up about it. It seems like the high school coaches are as well."

Franklin, the former Vanderbilt coach, has drawn the biggest headlines for having his staff work with high school recruits fairly close to the University of Georgia and University of Florida campuses.

But other schools also are taking advantage of working camps off campus. This summer, the staffs from Oklahoma State and New Mexico are scheduled to work camps in several Texas towns -- Belton, San Antonio, Pearland, Spring, Rockwall and Dallas -- and Iowa's coaching staff is scheduled to work in Chicago at Lake Forest College.

By comparison, SEC rules prohibit coaches at SEC schools from "guest coaching" more than 50 miles from campus.

"It continues to be more of an issue," Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said.

SEC coaches are mad, so you know he's doing something right.

Additionally, 247Sports reported that, "Notre Dame is working with Georgia State to hold a satellite football camp in Atlanta during the summer of 2015."

This is savvy outside the box thinking.

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