By Will Vandervort.

When Dabo Swinney hosts football camps every June, he just doesn’t make a brief appearance and talk to the kids. No, Swinney is involved.

From his youth camps—second thru the seventh grade—to his high school camps, you can find Clemson’s popular head coach teaching young men the game of football all the way down to the basic fundamentals.

“I love teaching young kids about football because I love football,” Swinney said on Youth Day at Death Valley last month. “That is the reason I got into the coaching business, to teach young people about the game I love.”

That’s why Swinney’s camps are some of the biggest in college football. Last year he hosted a record 1,500 campers and he is expecting even more this summer. Swinney wants young men to learn and play the game of football so much he will keep his camp registry open right up until camp starts.

Why?

He wants every little boy possible to learn about the game that is so dear to his heart. This is the main reason why Swinney against Big Ten schools like Michigan and Penn State, to name a few, that are hosting so-called, “satellite camps” in the South.

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh will be a guest coach at nine camps in seven states this summer, while coaches from Penn State and Nebraska, according to The AJC, will be at Georgia State’s football camp.

Swinney feels these attempts by the Big Ten are not meant to be camps, but instead combines.

“I’m against it. I mean, I think that from a conference standpoint, we, the SEC and ACC, we’ve had rules against that for several years,” he said. “I think it’s a loophole that people are taking advantage of. I think it’s something that needs to be addressed.

“I don’t think it’s a good thing because I think ultimately what happens is instead of having camps you’re having combines. I think there’s enough of that. You’re going to have camps in every city, and basically, again, it just becomes a combine.”

Alabama head coach Nick Saban calls satellite camps “ridiculous” and  Georgia head coach Mark Richt wonders when is enough, enough.

“It has come up in our league meetings. I would prefer everybody stayed on their own campus quite frankly,” Richt told The AJC. “If you are going to do a satellite camp, you have to decide how many and where. You have to be thinking about your staff. I mean how many more times do you want them to leave their wife and kids to go do something like that?

“We all love to recruit, we all want to see kids perform, but where do you end up drawing the line? I just don’t know.”

Swinney says he doesn’t need or want to have satellite camps because he wants to show off Clemson. He believes having himself or one of his coaches coaching at someone else’s camp does nothing to benefit his program.

“We put a tremendous amount of emphasis on our camp here at Clemson, and I want to get guys on this campus,” he said. “That’s the best part of our camp. Everything that we do from a recruiting standpoint is just our campus itself.

“We can go out on the road and recruit and evaluate and do the things that we need to do, but we want to get guys here to Clemson because we know if they come, then we’ve got a good shot from a recruiting standpoint.”

NCAA president Mark Emmert has reportedly said the rules oversight committee will have satellite camps at “the top of their list” when they meet next year. No one is really surprised about that news, especially Swinney.

“It’s something that’ll probably come to a head one way or another, but I don’t have a problem with it because it’s within the rules,” he said. “But it really hasn’t been that big of an issue with us.”