The bad news for Caleb Campbell is that he won’t be permitted to play for the Lions in lieu of fulfilling his active-duty commitment to the Army, as a result of his free four-year college education.

The good news (for Campbell, and not for the guy who’ll take his place on the front lines) is that Campbell will be staying in the U.S., coaching football at West Point.

Said Campbell on Sporting News Radio’s The Monty Show:  “Before the draft, I was picked to be one of the players to stick around West Point and to help the coaches coach the football team, and just help out with the team.  I actually am headed back to New York to start that job, so when they start training camp up at West Point, I’ll be helping out there, I’ll be coaching this season.”

Campbell still hopes to play pro football.  “I really think I will be able to one day,” he said.  “They said maybe in 2010, I’ll have the opportunity to try out for another team, and I know the Lions are there and they’d give me the opportunity, and I know that I’ll be ready for that opportunity.  Whenever they say that I do have do have a chance one day, I’m going to take it, I’m going to run with it, and we’ll see what happens.”