Welcome to another week on the fault line in college athletics, where we’re talking more about AGs than ADs, billable hours than football powers, Senate committees than Curt Cignetti. This week, the industry’s future, both near term and long term, is careening along two tracks that could soon intersect.
The Brendan Sorsby insurrection at Texas Tech and the Protect College Sports Act in Congress are on a collision course. The result is another chapter in the never-ending saga of unintended consequences in college sports. In an industry where every bright idea or bold plan stands a chance of backfiring, a few prominent people might be rethinking their long-held stances.
