College Sports Is Broken. Here’s What Must Come Next. - Commentary

Jordan Acker, an elected regent of the University of Michigan and partner at the Goodman Acker law firm, and a consultant on college athletics and governance, writes:  College sports are in a state of upheaval. As of 2025, the century-old Pacific 12 Conference will no longer exist for all intents and purposes, as U.C.L.A., U.S.C., the University of Washington and the University of Oregon have decamped for bigger paychecks from the Big Ten Conference, and Stanford and the University of California-Berkeley will henceforth compete in the now ironically named Atlantic Coast Conference.