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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 4249341, member: 628"]
100%.

Administrators at schools love that the public constantly rails against the NCAA, because it has distracted people from the fact that it is the schools who are almost entirely to blame for the current mess that is collegiate athletics.

No one at the NCAA forced a school to hop conferences, create a cable sports network, or spend a kajillion dollars on facilities.

Ultimately, this is about the lack of centralized, strong leadership across Division 1.  The schools have never, ever, wanted that.  Say what you will about Roger Goodell, or Adam Silver, but their focus is to grow "the league" and make decisions about the business, and on-field play, that benefits everyone in the league.  None of that happens at the collegiate level.  It's all self-interest, all the time.

Ask anyone to "fix" college sports and I bet the first thing they'd do is blow up the fragmented, nonsensical, conference structure, and re-align in a geographically logical way that creates on-field parity.  If anyone thinks that any of the power schools want that, I got a bridge to sell you.
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