DESTIN, Fla. -- No earthshaking items are initially on the agenda at the annual SEC business meetings that start today at Sandestin Beach Hilton.

But things could heat up, especially with some lively discussion between football and men's basketball coaches over some NCAA legislation that could affect their sports.

Football coaches will talk about a change in instant replay for the upcoming season, in which coaches will have a chance to challenge one officiating decision per game. Last year during the first year of instant replay, an instant replay official in the press box made all the decisions whether to stop a game to review a play.

Also, football coaches will discuss an NCAA proposal on measures designed to shorten how much time it takes to play a game. As it stands now, most games that are televised run about 3 hours, 15 minutes or slightly longer.

Conference commissioners have sent two recommendations to the NCAA playing rules oversight panel that would cut halftime to 15 minutes. Also, the committee also enacted a rule that will start the clock when the ball is kicked off rather than when it is received.

Basketball coaches are sure to discuss the new NCAA rule that many coaches don't even know about yet.

The rule, effective in late April, states that a student-athlete who earns an undergraduate degree in four years but still has one year of eligibility remaining -- such a medical redshirt -- may transfer to another college's graduate school and finish his or her career there and not even have to sit out a year. A player can graduate with a Bachelors degree, transfer and play immediately.

Two new coordinators of officials, one for football and one for basketball, will be introduced to the coaches.

• Royce Redding, who officiated college football for 20 years, including in the SEC 1994-2003, is replacing the retiring Bobby Gaston, whose SEC tenure as an official and then coordinator has spanned 50 years.

• Gerald Boudreaux, a 25-year college basketball officiating veteran who served as the SEC's interim coordinator of basketball officials this past season after John Guthrie resigned, takes over the job full-time.

League athletic directors likely will discuss how the NCAA's Academic Progress rate is working in the league.

Second-year APR data released in March showed that 99 Division 1 teams at 65 colleges or universities -- fewer than 2 percent of the 6,112 Division I teams nationwide -- will lose scholarships for poor scholastic performance by their student-athletes.

At the end of the week, the league is expected to announce record revenue sharing of around $114 million.