Harbaugh aims social media jab at Saban

The SEC spring meetings in Destin, Fla. got started on Tuesday, and, mostly because it’s what happens at every college football gathering in 2016, it didn't take long for the conversation to turn to satellite camps.

This time. It was Alabama coach Nick Saban weighing in on the issue. Saban has long been against team holding camps off campus and (in most cases) other regions of the country. His words on Tuesday stayed true to the narrative. This time around, Saban addressed how camps could make it easy for programs to (willingly or not) violate NCAA rules.

"Anybody can have a camp now and if they have a prospect, they can have a camp," Saban said to media members gathered at the spring meetings. "Then you're expected to go to that camp and they can use you to promote their camp because Ohio State's coming, Alabama's coming, whoever else is coming. Somebody sponsors the camp. They pay them the money. What do they do with the money? And who makes sure the kid paid to go to the camp? I mean, this is the wild, wild West at its best because there's no specific guidelines relative to how we're managing or controlling this stuff.”

And while Saban when on to specifically say he’s “not blaming Jim Harbaugh," who has publicly carried the banner for the virtues of offseason satellite camps in recent years, the Michigan head coach struck back quickly via Twitter.

The rule-breaking reference is likely to the fact that Saban recently dismissed assistant coach Bo Davis in the wake of an investigation that tied Davis to potential NCAA violations.

Harbaugh has quickly earned a reputation as somebody willing to speak his mind online, even if it means firing shots at coaching colleagues. He and his Michigan program are set to hold a series of satellite camps in the Southeast and beyond in the coming month.