CLEMSON — No one saw Asheville, N.C., as the epicenter for college athletics, but that is the case this week as 32 Division I conference commissioners are coming together there for their annual summer meetings.

No one is there to play golf and tennis this week, as this might be the most important summer meetings collegiate athletics has ever encountered.

What is on the docket?

The future of how the NCAA will be governed for one. Will there be a separate division created for the power conferences?

Will the SEC and Big Ten be okay with the new selection process of the College Football Playoff?

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Will it expand?

The new world of college sports begins on July 1, so what decisions will be made to ensure a smooth transition in sharing revenue directly with athletes?

“It is going to create some order where there has been no order,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said to The Clemson Insider at last month’s ACC Spring Meetings. “We have very few rules (for paying players). And whatever rules there were, they either changed them or nothing happened.

“There has been no budget. There has been no cap. There has been no type of order.”

Some of the order Swinney is looking for are expected to come from a new committee of power conference administrators that are exploring ways to overhaul a 365-day college football calendar that will marry with the House settlement’s revenue sharing model.

As Swinney mentioned to TCI last month, one of the big topics at the ACC Spring Meetings, and of course in Asheville this week, is the opening of the transfer portal. Should it be opened in January or April?

According to Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger, the majority of coaches want a 10-day portal period in early January, many administrators, as well as coaches in the Big Ten, are supporting an April portal date, as a way to more align the portal with the academic calendar, which ends in May and a school’s new revenue share cap year, which will end in June.

This not only impacts decisions on spring practice, but it may determine if a second portal window will continue to exist. For instance, SEC coaches want a January portal date. However, they prefer keeping two portal windows over a single window in April, which is what the Big Ten wants to do.

If given the choice between a January or April window, Swinney is in line with SEC and prefers a single January window.

Ohio State’s Ross Bjork said Swinney and the SEC’s view on the portal window is one-track mind thinking.

“With January, we are only worried about one thing and that’s the football team,” the Ohio State Athletic Director said to Yahoo Sports. “‘Oh! We got to have everybody there for a second semester because I have to get them in spring ball!’

“If we want to worry about the financial component and the academic component, the best window is spring,” he said. “They’re only worrying about one thing — the football roster — and I think that mindset is in the past.”

Maybe it is or maybe it is not, but it will be interesting to see what the leagues’ commissioners decide to do this week, as well as all the other hot-button issues that are on the agenda.