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Mumme turns LSU in to NCAA ...

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... for camp with Texas being called off.

After feeling Ed Orgeron and LSU prevented his camp with Texas in Louisiana from happening, Hal Mumme has taken his grievances to the NCAA
The controversy that resulted in LSU and head coach Ed Orgeron reportedly successfully spearheading an effort to block Tom Herman and Texas from working a satellite camp in the state of the Louisiana had another layer added to the story on Thursday.

During an interview with 99.1 The Game in Birmingham, Belhaven University head coach Hal Mumme said he’s turned LSU in to the NCAA for blocking the camp from happening. Mumme and Belhaven, a Division III program, tried several times to set up a camp where Texas and other programs would send coaches to work, but Mumme was met with roadblocks at seemingly every turn.

“I think the NCAA needs to go down there and look at that,” Mumme said. “I mean, I don’t see how a public figure at a SEC school can basically extort people into not using their facilities for the public good.”

According to Mumme, he was able to secure a field in Baton Rouge only to have administrators at the school pull out of the contract 48 hours before the camp was to take place due to what he called a technicality in the paperwork. Mumme then was able to gain access to a field in Hammond through a coach who happens to be a former player of his, but the coach’s athletic director nixed the idea without giving the coach “a good answer” as to why it couldn’t happen, Mumme said.

Mumme added that the coaches he was trying to partner with were excited about the camp taking place. Administrators, however, kept pulling the plug.

“We knew where that was coming from,” Mumme said. “It was just pressure from ‘Paranoid Ed’ down there at LSU. He doesn’t want any out-of-state people coming to his state to have camps, so apparently, nobody on the rest of America is allowed to recruit any kids in Louisiana.”

In addition to Texas, Mumme had partnered with Houston (a Group of Five program), Cornell (an Ivy League school) and Delta State (a Division II program) and several other small schools. The camp being canceled only hurts the kids who were going to attend, Mumme said, many of whom aren’t elite prospects and might have benefitted from getting the opportunity to work out in front of numerous college programs.
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