The satellite camp ban has been lifted and everything is in play this summer.

Last week’s decision was the latest development to a situation in which there was plenty of back biting and finger pointing from one side of the coaching community to the other.

It pitted conferences against conferences and, in some cases, teams from the same conference against each other. The Pac-12 commissioner ripped into UCLA AD Dan Guerrero for voting against the desires of the conference (apparently 11 Pac-12 schools voted against the ban and UCLA was an abstention).

Shortly after the ban was announced, Cincinnati coach Tommy Tuberville went on radio and said it would be overturned in the next 60 days. Prophet. Auburn should hire him. Actually they should have never fired him, but that’s another story for another day.

Anyway, the camps are back, and this is a brief look at SEC members that stand to gain the most from the overturn and those that lost a little.

WINNERS

MISSOURI: No SEC team stands to benefit more from the freedom of satellite camps than Missouri. Within the fertile recruiting grounds that cover much of the SEC landscape the Tigers are a program without a country.

Missouri can’t build a class through just in-state prospects but its reach in SEC hotbeds like Georgia and Florida isn’t as good as it needs to be.

Head coach Barry Odom put on a brave face when the ban came down a few weeks ago and said that it didn’t matter. But he also disclosed that Missouri had plans to participate in 8-10 satellites.

Well with the ban lifted the Tigers are going all in on the camps. They will be one of 11 programs in a five-city, three-day camp that’s being hosted by Division III program Mary Hardin-Baylor.

The Tigers are also putting something together in Atlanta with N.C. State along with camps in Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago and other destinations.

ARKANSAS: Bret Bielema is never one to shy away from a little bit of healthy discourse. So while I personally don’t believe camps in Michigan and Chicago would have been the most productive ways to use the rule, I like his spirit.

However, Bielema also disclosed that Arkansas had something special planned with the Dallas Cowboys.

Bielema hasn’t disclosed his plans since the ban was lifted, but I would be curious to see what the idea was with the Cowboys. Regardless of how you or I may feel about Cowboys as a fan, they are one of the most recognizable brands in sports and Arkansas crafting a camp relationship with the franchise owned by Arkansas alum Jerry Jones would be a boost for the program.

SEC IN TEXAS: The conference as a whole hasn’t quite established the footprint in Texas that it has in Florida and Georgia. That’s understandable given A&M is still in its infancy as a conference member while Florida and Georgia have been around forever.

But these camps give the conference members more reason to go to Texas and establish a footprint. As more programs begin to map out their plans, expect most of the conference members to have a stop in Texas this year.

LOSERS

NICK SABAN: It’s a little unfair to call Saban the loser in this ruling, but he’s the king of college football and by coming out against the satellite camps he became the face of the “anti-camp” movement.

When the ban was declared at the beginning of April, it was seen as a big win for Saban. Now that it’s been lifted, it’s probably a bit of a personal setback. That being said if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

Oddly enough Alabama could have always attended Samford’s camp because it’s within 50 miles of the campus. My guess is Saban will send some assistants but stay out of the fray.

FLORIDA, TEXAS A&M: The “get off my lawn!” portion of the ruling comes here.

It’s always a delicate situation for programs located in Florida, Texas and California because they have such a strong base within the state. So they have to be careful how much they focus on out-of-state events because too much attention on outside camps could anger the high school coaches in the home state.

Meanwhile the state of Florida is ground zero for every school in the nation to do a satellite camp.

So while Jim McElwain says he’s going to have a traveling show and join in on the fun, he stands to benefit less from leaving his state than other top programs do by going into Florida.

Before the camp ban Sumlin talked of doing a camp in Louisiana. But in the last 24 hours he’s had to deal with other issues.