The invitees include many of those within the industry itself, such as the four power conference commissioners (Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and ACC); American Conference commissioner Tim Pernetti; current athletic directors from Wake Forest, Iowa State and Indiana; former Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione; Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua and ex-Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick; former coaches Mack Brown, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer; Texas Tech board member Cody Campbell; Heisman winners Tim Tebow and Charlie Ward; university presidents/chancellors Doug Girod (Kansas), Jeff Gold (Nebraska) and Donde Plowman (Tennessee); and former Clemson and West Virginia president Jim Clements. … Ideas on solutions for the primary issue — how to pay college athletics — have even divided those within the industry itself, with arguments ranging from athlete employment to non-employment collective bargaining, from federal antitrust protection to amending the Sports Broadcasting Act so conferences can pool their media rights. The latter issue — the pooling of media rights — has caused deep rifts, both among college stakeholders themselves and between conferences leaders and external forces, such as Campbell, the Texas Tech billionaire businessman whose “Saving College Sports” campaign urges lawmakers to amend the SBA. The “SCS” campaign argues that consolidating television rights for the 10 FBS conferences — for now, they each negotiate their own deals — is a way to increase revenues to help financially stabilize college sports and level the playing field, potentially closing the gaps between the richest leagues, the SEC and Big Ten, and everyone else. ——————————- The congress is not going to lift a finger. Maybe Trump will sign an executive order before November. We will see.