SEC coaches have spoken, and the conference has listened.

In the first day of the conference’s annual spring meetings, the SEC took its official stance on satellite camps. On Tuesday, the conference announced that it would propose national legislation that would limit coaches and staff members from appearing at camps, keeping them only at camps on their own campus.

A quick refresher: a slew of coaches, mainly from the Big Ten and other midwestern schools, have made or scheduled appearances at instructional camps across the country — and often in SEC territory — as guest coaches. Penn State’s James Franklin, formerly the coach at Vanderbilt, ruffled feathers when he made an appearance at a Georgia Southern camp last year. Greg Sankey has described the guest coaching spots as recruiting tour stops.

“We want it to be done nationally, but there was a lot of conversation among our football coaches that we don’t want to be on the sidelines any longer if there’s not going to be a change more rapidly,” incoming commissioner Greg Sankey said on Tuesday.

The SEC currently does not allow its coaches to make such appearances, which Alabama coach Nick Saban, one of the more vocal opponents of the camps nationally, thinks puts the conference at a disadvantage.

“These things need to be global, otherwise we’re going to become a farm system for all the other leagues,” Saban said Tuesday. “If we’re going to compete for the championship and everybody is going to play in the playoff system and everybody is going to compete for that, we need to get our rules in alignment so we’re all on a level playing field…whether they’re satellite camp rules.”

South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier and Florida’s Jim McElwain both backed up Sankey and Saban’s stances.

“All of us are against it obviously,” Spurrier said. “But there comes a point where we need to start doing it to keep up with Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State — the northern schools that are coming into the south.”

“Selfishly, I’d like to keep (satellite camps) out of the state of Florida,” McElwain said. “But at the same time, right now, that’s what we’re dealing with as a conference. Where others are taking advantage of us is one of those camp issues.”

Sankey cited the SEC’s adherence to the recruiting calendar as one reason for pushing for a ban on satellite camps.

“We’ve agreed that we’re not going to be engaged in off-campus recruiting during the summer, which is what really recruiting tours are,” Sankey said on Tuesday.

So far, the ACC has joined the SEC in its stance against the camps. The Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 are all in favor of them. Jim Harbaugh, Michigan’s new head coach, has a nine-camp tour planned for this summer with stops in seven states. The SEC and ACC likely won’t be able to put a stop to that, but by next year things could change in that regard.