WASHINGTON — The athletic directors at the schools that play Division I college football at the highest level want the sport to continue to be governed by the NCAA — if that governance can be streamlined.
LEAD1, an association of Football Bowl Subdivision athletic directors, convened 105 of its 131 members Wednesday for a meeting that focused mostly on how best to govern major college football.
There has been some momentum in the past year to seriously explore breaking FBS away from the NCAA and creating another structure to run the biggest revenue generator in college sports. For now, though, the preference is for reform within the current structure.
Tom McMillen, the former Maryland basketball star and congressman who is currently LEAD1’s president and CEO, said “it was very clear that the status quo is not acceptable and that there was a strong, very strong, preference for a model in the NCAA that is extremely streamlined and much less bureaucratic.”