The SEC got what it wanted Friday when the NCAA officially banned satellite camps. The ruling will prevent Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh — and other non-SEC coaches for that matter — from holding offseason camps in key SEC recruiting hotbeds.

The vote to prohibit satellite camps was passed by a 10-5 margin, according to ESPN. The SEC, ACC, Pac-12 and Big 12 conferences all voted to end them, and not surprisingly, the Big Ten was apparently the only Power 5 conference that was in favor of satellite camps.

Even though the Big 12 voted against satellite camps, at least one of its coaches wanted to see them continue. Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops is disappointed with Friday’s ruling.

“In my mind, even if you found one guy, it was worth it,” Stoops told tulsaworld.com. “You might have 200 there and one guy is the one you offer. If he plays for you and does well, I think it’s a big get.”

Before Friday’s decision, the NCAA had prohibited colleges from hosting camps outside of a 50-mile radius of their campuses. But nothing had stopped those schools from serving as guests at camps staged by other institutions, which Harbaugh made the most of by holding events at high schools and small colleges in the South, California and Detroit last year.

ACC and SEC rules had prohibited their coaches from stepping outside the 50-mile radius, even if they were invited as guests. But, coincidentally, had the NCAA not made its ruling, at least one SEC school – Missouri – had planned multiple satellite camps this year.

New Tigers head coach Barry Odom told the Columbia Daily Tribune on Friday that Mizzou had around 10 camps lined up in “as many states that we recruit that we could’ve. There were so many schools reaching out to want to pair up together,” Odom said.

“We had some things we felt like we were going to do pretty strongly. And then, within the last 48 hours, it got a little bit crazy on people wanting to pair up all over the place.

“There were some decisions to make yet to see really just how many we were going to do.”

As fate would have it, a former SEC coach — James Franklin — started the ruckus over satellite camps in 2014, and Harbaugh has raised the bar last year. Not surprisingly, like Harbaugh, Franklin is a staunch supporter of satellite camps and isn’t happy to see them go.

“There are programs that have been doing [satellite camps] for 10 years. But when we did it last year, it made national headlines,” Franklin, who went 24-15 in three seasons at Vanderbilt, told SB Nation last year.

“We’re doing it again (in Atlanta, Charlotte and elsewhere), and it’s still making national headlines. And other people are doing it now, because the rules allow you to do it.

“I would not be serving Penn State the right way if I wasn’t doing everything within the NCAA and Big Ten rules to give us a chance to be successful.”

Nick Saban, who apparently saw no value in satellite camps to begin with, has clearly gotten his way with the NCAA’s ruling. Who knows? Maybe Saban, arguably the most influential man in college football, will somehow find a way to get the NCAA to ban spread offenses as well.

“How many teams play Division 1 football?” Saban asked AL.com last week. “Are they all going to have a satellite camp in every metropolitan area?

“That means they’ll have 113 camps in Atlanta, 113 in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Dallas, Houston. I mean, it sounds like a pretty ridiculous circumstance for me for something that nobody can really determine, did it have any value anyway?”

Satellite camps obviously had value for the Big Ten, otherwise coaches such as Harbaugh and Franklin wouldn’t have pushed for them and kept participating in them. They obviously had value for recruits who were able to meet college coaches in a football environment without traveling long distances and, in some cases, make more educated decisions about investing money in unofficial visits.

The American Athletic Conference was one of three Group of Five leagues that reportedly voted in favor of continuing satellite camps. And one of its coaches, South Florida’s Willie Taggart, is someone who saw their value from the recruits’ perspective.

“I think the wrong message has been put out,” Taggart told SB Nation last year. “No one’s really talking about how good it is for the kids.

“If you really think about it, this is the right thing to do. Kids are going to camps all over the country, spending all this money to try and get the most amount of exposure, when it’s the schools that have all the money.

“The schools should be moving around so the players can get a larger variety of teams.”

But just like Steve Spurrier, satellite camps are no longer part of the game — for now. And while Saban and his conference peers apparently got what they wanted with a ruling that will keep Harbaugh and other non-SEC coaches out of the South, there are more losers than winners here.

For starters, the players who can’t who can’t afford to pay their own way to campuses in the summer for unofficial visits will be hurt the most. Secondly, fans will miss out on the continued sniping between Harbaugh and SEC coaches over the satellite-camps issue, which here on in will probably not be as entertaining as it has been to this point, unless Michigan’s man decides to blame Saban and his conference brethren for the NCAA’s decision.

Finally, it would have been interesting to see if any coach would have been able to use satellite camps to potentially dethrone Saban from his current perch as the top recruiter in the country who has landed six straight No. 1 classes. But from another perspective, Saban could have potentially done two things via satellite camps — remain college football’s recruiting king while beating Harbaugh at his own game.

And who outside the Big Ten wouldn’t have wanted that?