The 20 people involved in the idea of creating a "super-league" format in college football dubbed "College Sports Tomorrow" are “girding for what seems to be a showdown against a future trying to be created by the Big Ten and SEC,” according to Dennis Dodd of CBSSPORTS.com. West Virginia Univ. President and CST member Gordon Gee said he does not believe that “leaving it just to commissioners and athletic directors [is the way to go]." Gee: "I think the university presidents have been the root of the problem here. We have ignored. We have not been engaged. We have not paid enough attention." He added, "We should have been thinking more progressively for a long period of time. My view is that is to stimulate the conversation, get enough university presidents together to solve this problem." College sports is at a point where the “money is about to run out.” Now, schools are preparing for what “might be an eight-figure budget hit in upcoming legal settlements.” That may lead to “hard decisions” on whether to cut other sports within the athletic department. College football itself is also “undervalued,” at least in terms of what it could be as the nation's second most-popular sport. One CST member “projected annual revenue” of a "super league" at between $3B and $16B annually. Dodd noted all of this is preliminary, but it is “clear there is a line to be crossed in the future.” Based on the conversations, revenue generated from a "super league" would “help fund the minor sports at risk.” The money would account for “compensating players in some fashion" (CBSSPORTS.com, 4/12).
