Satellite camps are the new big trend in college football, whether Alabama coach Nick Saban likes it or not.

Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh has been the most vocal supporter of the practice, but now SEC schools are getting in on the action.

Last week, the Missouri coaching staff hosted two camps and, this offseason, Barry Odom and his assistants have made appearances at camps across the country, according to Blake Toppmeyer of the Columbia Daily Tribune:

There are two varieties of satellite camps. MU’s coaching staff has attended each.

Tuesday’s camp at Park Hill and Missouri’s camp last Sunday at Kirkwood High School in St. Louis, although technically satellite camps, were Missouri camps at their core, part of the Mizzou Elite Prospect Camps series.

The other variety of satellite camps are those not hosted by an FBS school but at which guest coaches from multiple FBS schools are present. Some of these camps are dubbed mega camps. Missouri coaches have attended mega camps in Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Illinois and Alabama.

Obviously, the Tigers don’t have the same caliber of recruiting classes that schools like LSU, Alabama and Auburn have, so Odom could benefit from putting in face time with high school athletes across the country.

As far as high school coaches go, at least one coach in the Kansas City area appreciated having Odom and his staff around:

Lee’s Summit Coach Eric Thomas had four athletes at Tuesday’s camp at Park Hill, and he’ll also have athletes at the Blue Springs South camp. Park Hill, which had about 30 athletes at Tuesday’s camp, will have athletes attending the satellite camp at Pittsburg State. Additionally, Thomas said he’ll have athletes at a Kansas-hosted camp Monday at Raytown High School.

Thomas appreciates satellite camps and has a guess as to why Saban is against them.

“If you’re Nick Saban, kids are going to come to you. … Everybody wants to come to Alabama,” Thomas said.

However, even with the success Mizzou had with last week’s slate of camps, Odom said he still wants to see more athletes in Columbia:

“We did a good job of piecing it together and getting in a lot of different places but also having the opportunity to get out in the state of Missouri, which is good for us,” Odom said. “I still think in the scholastic setting, on our campus, is the best thing. I want to get kids on our campus, because I need to show them what Mizzou is.”

With Odom and Mizzou trying to rebuild, seeing as many athletes as possible can’t hurt the Tigers’ chances to turn things around.