A ‘Super League’ for Big-Time College Sports?

The continuing turmoil in big-time college athletics—driven by the decline of amateurism and players’ success in winning the right to be compensated, virtually nonstop conference realignment that has blown up traditional rivalries in the chase for big television payouts, and doubts about the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s viability—could ultimately lead in many directions. More intervention from Congress. Athletes who are paid directly by colleges and possibly even treated as employees. Ever-greater separation of the haves from the have-nots. Which of these come to pass is far from certain, but the latter is likeliest.