As the Protect College Sports Act continues to progress in the United States Senate, the disconnect between what has truly destabilized the enterprise and the perceived destabilization continues. And attempts to address the bigger problem keep getting mowed down.
Conference realignment and expansion have done more harm to college athletics than escalating athlete salaries, or even athlete movement (though the latter is an issue). The PCSA has plans to curtail further fracturing of geography, tradition and broad-based competitiveness—but those plans were further whittled away Thursday.
