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“Some simple math leads to one inescapable answer: Intercollegiate athletics is broken, getting worse by the minute, and, absent some drastic changes, will disappear, at least on some campuses.

That’s the view from the University of Louisville, where a troika of the university’s president, board chairman, and athletic director recently published a lengthy letter arguing for college-sports reform, calling for Congressional action, a hard cap on spending, and even a new governing agency.

If that doesn’t happen, “sports will go away,” President Gerry Bradley told The Chronicle in a joint interview with Laurence N. Benz, chairman of the board of trustees.”