He shared his concern about realignment, and said, “are we headed to these 4 mega conferences where eventually we pull away from the NCAA?”
“If that’s case, I don’t know how you guys feel, I feel a lot of friction right now with the conference commissioners,” Herbstreit said. “They’re supposed to be kind of in the same room working together, which they’ve done a brilliant job of in the past. But right now it kind of feels like everybody’s worried about their backyard, their constituents, the fans and coaches and players and athletics directors and presidents.”
To change that, there needs to be a change at the top to cut down on the animosity in the room, he said.
“I feel like we need one voice that worries, like a Roger Goodell,” Herbstreit said. “He’s not worried about the NFC East, Roger Goodell’s worried about the entire NFL, and I feel like the more we’re changing, at some point, we need whether it’s a Greg Sankey or whoever it is, we need a voice. We need a person that looks out at the entire country and not doing his job of just looking out over his conference.”
