Stanford coach David Shaw has gotten some serious heat, especially in the Southeast, over recent comments following the ban on satellite camps.

Shaw was asked for his thoughts on the ruling after his Cardinal’s spring game on Saturday. He gave the impression that he didn’t care, but one of Shaw’s sentences to ruleoftree.com seemed like a direct shot at the Southeast.

“I’m great with whatever college football says, because it doesn’t affect us. It doesn’t make sense for us to go hold a camp some place where there might be one person in the entire state that’s eligible to get into Stanford.”

Shaw, entering his sixth season at Stanford, spoke with SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum to try to clarify that as Shaw claims Finebaum tweeted out a graphic with a headline that took his statement out of context.

“The conversation wasn’t about holding satellite camps in SEC country,” Shaw said. “That’s not what we were talking about. That was not the context of the conversation. It would be ridiculous to insinuate that that was the conversation, considering especially that my mother is from Alabama, my dad is from Louisiana. I’m not going to take shots at the south, that’s ridiculous. You’ve heard me say repeatedly how much respect I have for the SEC and what they’ve accomplished and the coaches in the SEC.”

Shaw then highlighted what he really meant to say.

“What I was referring to, honestly, was the expense and the effort that it takes to have a satellite camp to where our admissions process for student-athletes is very, very difficult now. What I could have said, if you look at it, is that we’re talking about football players, where one football player in a particular state. That’s where I could’ve used different words.”

However, Finebaum pointed out that even that statement, just referring to football players, probably doesn’t sit well with many who can draw the wrong conclusions.

“I’m a Stanford alum. I know in my class at Stanford, there were a bunch of people from the same states, right? So we’re not talking about the general population. You can look back at our classes, and typically, outside of California and Texas on the football team, we will rarely ever get two people from the same state … It’s usually one person coming in from a state.”

After talking about how hard it is to get admitted to Stanford, Shaw circled back to the original comment that drew the ire.

“Talking about satellite camps, it made absolutely no sense for me to go someplace, anywhere, not just down south, but anywhere and hold a camp for hundreds of kids to recruit one.”