It’s about satellite camps, and it’s a silly debate that wastes time and breath. In short, the NCAA has a rule that prevents schools from traveling beyond a 50-mile radius surrounding campus to conduct camps (Read: recruiting events). The ACC and SEC, though, have a specific rule that blocks a loophole exploited most notably by the Big Ten and, to a lesser extent, the Big 12 and Pac-12. Those leagues have seen their schools legally breach the 50-mile circle by being invited guests at camps at colleges, universities and high schools.

It’s been happening for a few years. Kevin Sumlin was the first to make an issue of it during his first offseason at Texas A&M, and James Franklin exited Vanderbilt and brought the practice to the forefront last year by traveling to Georgia and Florida on behalf of his new Penn State program. Now Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh are making a lot of noise about joining the parade, and schools in the Big 12 (Oklahoma State and Iowa State seem most invested) are packing their bags as well.

WVU has never done this, and isn’t much interested in doing it, because of the sincere and subjective thoughts that exist there and many other places about whether it’s worth the trouble. But pretend for a moment the Mountaineers were into it, if only so that you understand the idea and the objections.

Say the coaches packed their bags, traveled down I-77 and were guests at a camp at the University of Charlotte. Perfectly legal, but you better believe Wake Forest, North Carolina State, North Carolina and Duke would be miffed.

Then imagine the Mountaineers plotted a course for a week of rest at Myrtle Beach, S.C, but not before stopping in Conway, S.C., for a camp at Coastal Carolina University. Also legal, and likely infuriating for the University of South Carolina.

That’s the issue. The SEC is having its summer meetings this week and many coaches are throwing public fits over the way their backyards are being invaded by satellite camps. They want everyone else to change and ban the events. The conference will propose a national rule to do that, but it’s unlikely to get much traction beyond this amusing display.

This is worth highlighting: The ACC and/or SEC could relax the legislation that bans satellite camps. The SEC, it would seem, doesn’t want to do that and instead wants everyone else — the people who comprise the majority, it should be noted — to change to fit a certain suit. It’s not going to happen, and now the SEC is standing on its pulpit, flexing so hard and screaming down at the children Don’t make us come down there! Because if the Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 keep this up, why, the SEC is going to have to do satellite camps, too.

That threat means zero to WVU. And Iowa State. And Penn State. And Michigan. And Ohio State. And Wisconsin. And Northwestern. And — you get the point. Everyone knows if the SEC eases its rule, the SEC will feast on the SEC, which isn’t a bad thing for everyone else but is not best for business in the SEC. The SEC isn’t going to the north or the midwest to get its hands on great players it can’t get nearby. If there’s a remote prospect worth getting, an SEC coach or program’s reputation will do just fine to get a foot in the door.

But for the three leagues that allow the camps, there’s simply no reason to get behind a national rule that strips a strength from their schools, and it’s perfectly fair the Big Ten, as an example, gets a strength to flaunt. I’ll get to that in a second, in a roundabout way, one that involves the Mountaineers, as well as others who deal with like elements and variables.

Again, WVU isn’t overly concerned about this. There are benefits, but WVU does remote recruiting fairly well as it is, and a cost-benefit analysis just hasn’t been favorable enough to commit the extra time, energy and resources to satellite camps. Realistically, who commits, never mind signs, without visiting a campus? Even if WVU did satellite camping and wowed a kid in, say, Charlotte, that kid’s going to want to — and in WVU’s opinion, have to — visit to be convinced.

The visit is the thing for WVU, and for (again as an example) most Big Ten schools. This is where things get hilarious.

Recruits cannot make official visits (the ones schools pay for) before the fall of their senior seasons. WVU is among the growing number of schools that would prefer recruits not make officials visits on weekends with home games because there just isn’t a lot of time available to spend with kids and their families. So that leaves the open weekends (you call them bye weeks), and how many of those are washed away because a kid has a game on a Friday or Saturday and can’t make the trip? That leaves the dwindling time between the end of the season and signing day, and a lot of kids have made visits and/or committed elsewhere by that point. If a first impression is to be had, it can be one with snowy roads, icy temperatures and thinly populated campuses.

So, obviously, a lot of schools and conferences would like to see the rule changed so official visits can happen in the summer when there is more time, when the temperatures are warmer and when it just makes more sense.

Guess who stands in the way of changing that rule.