The SEC will congregate in Destin, Fla., this week for its annual meetings.

It also will represent the last time that current commissioner Mike Slive will preside over the SEC’s athletic directors and administrators. We’re weeks away from the start of commissioner-elect Greg Sankey assuming that post.

Several agenda items focus on eliminating competitive imbalances between the SEC and other conferences or between member institutions. Here are five issues the SEC’s power brokers likely will discuss this week.

1. SATELLITE CAMPS

The NCAA rules don’t allow coaches to host football camps outside of their state, unless it’s within a 50-mile radius of the university’s campus. But the NCAA will allow coaches to appear at other camps, even high school camps, as a “guest instructor.”

Coaches like Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and Penn State’s James Franklin have taken advantage with what the SEC has classified as “recruiting tours,” dipping into the South at several camps as guest instructors.

Even though the NCAA currently allows such a practice, the SEC doesn’t.

Said outgoing commissioner Mike Slive to the Associated Press: “We’ve tried to have a rule that we think is sane and doesn’t make (recruiting) more intense than it already is. If the rest of the country sees it differently, we’re going to pay attention to that.”

Essentially, the SEC would like the NCAA to close the loophole allowing satellite camps. But the conference needs to decide during the meetings next week whether it is willing to change its own rules in case Plan A falls through.

“We prefer our current legislation,” Slive said Friday, according to the AP. “It gets complex when that legislation is not national legislation, so we would like to see our rule become national legislation. The real question is if it doesn’t, what are we going to do? That’ll be basically one of the primary subjects. I don’t have an answer, but we hope an answer will emerge out of Destin.”

2. COST OF ATTENDANCE

The discussion of whether to compensate athletes on top of the traditional scholarship has evolved this year.

As a result of the ongoing legislation, the NCAA is set to allow universities in power conferences to pay student-athletes “full cost of attendance.” In essence, the “full cost of attendance” varies at every institution.

It’s a number generally controlled by each school’s office of admissions to give families a good idea about the actual cost of school each year beyond tuition, room/board and books. “Full cost of attendance” estimates out-of-pocket expenses like cell phones and travel. Some private institutions intentionally low-ball that number to avoid sticker shock with prospective students.

For the SEC, it means football coaches should be able to offer an additional $2,284 to $5,666 to high school recruits (per college year in the form of a monthly stipend). The numbers are based on a federal formula stemming from the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit, but Alabama coach Nick Saban is among those who have raised concern that it will provide certain schools an unfair advantage.

The entire issue is murky and ever-changing. We’re probably still at the early stages of figuring out a redistribution of a percentage the billions of dollars now involved in college athletics to the athletes.

“We’re in an evolutionary period and the end result is that everything isn’t necessarily going to be the same for everybody,” Slive said, according to the AP. “That’s a difficult concept for them and it flies in the face of the experience of our coaches and our institutions for decades.

“The days of everything and every rule being grounded in a level playing field are gone.”

3. GRADUATE TRANSFER RULES

Former Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson never attempted to play for an SEC school. Golson visited Florida and Georgia, but instead elected to play his senior season at Florida State.

Golson’s decision-making process created a lot of discussion about the SEC’s current grad transfer rules. The SEC will not allow a graduate transfer in football — legal by NCAA rules — unless he meets a seven-pronged criteria or gets a special waiver from the conference commissioner.

Because Golson faced a disciplinary issue at Notre Dame — he endured an academic suspension for one semester — and because he only has one year of eligibility remaining, he would need the SEC commissioner to make an exception for him in order to play football for a member institution.

The ACC has no such restrictions. Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs indicated to the AP he’d like to see the SEC change its policy.

4. EARLY SIGNING DATE FOR RECRUITS

A proposed NCAA rule change would create an early signing period for football recruits, allowing them to finalize Letters Of Intent in December along with junior college transfers.

The SEC has yet to establish a conference-wide position, but commissioner-elect Greg Sankey has tactfully voiced strong opposition to the proposal.

It would be a shock if the SEC came out of Destin, Fla., with anything but a unified front against instituting an early signing period, but it probably will be on the agenda.

5. STATE-FUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS CREATE COMPETITIVE DISADVANTAGE?

Certain SEC schools in certain sports can stretch scholarship limits by procuring state-funded scholarships, rather than athletic ones, for its players.

For example, Georgia’s lottery-funded HOPE scholarship could take care of the cost for a Bulldogs baseball or softball player. That player wouldn’t have to count against the baseball or softball scholarship limit for their school.

Most non-revenue sports, even in the financially-lucrative SEC, must split up the total number of allotted scholarships into partials, perhaps giving a shortstop a half-scholarship and a relief pitcher 25 percent. That’s even if the school pays to fund the maximum number of scholarships allowed by the NCAA in that sport.

So if a team can find a way to cover one of its athletes’ expenses without dipping into the allotment of “athletic scholarships,” it can gain a competitive advantage.

Not every state enjoys lottery-funded scholarships. According to the AP, Auburn’s Jacobs will introduce a rule that would ensure those types of scholarships count against the team’s allotment, getting rid of the competitive imbalance.