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“If you consume college sports news, every day you read boom or bust predictions from power conference commissioners and athletic directors. You also hear from media members, almost exclusively speaking from the perspective of those power conference institutions. Each has his or her favored solution to set college athletics on a golden path to sustainability and growth — or a pet gripe about NIL, tampering or access to championships.

Those voices and opinions represent the perspectives of about 65 of the 365 Division I institutions — to be charitable, let’s say 20 percent of D-I membership. But what is going on with the other 80 percent of athletic directors and commissioners? Over many years working as an athletic director at two D-I schools and as a senior administrator at three others, I have been a part of the latter group, and recently, I’ve spent a great deal of time talking and listening to others among that 80 percent.

So why haven’t their voices been part of the wider discourse?”