Inside Higher Ed: The National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I has never been a democracy. Even in the days when every college had a vote in the sports group's governance structure, the institutions with the biggest and wealthiest sports programs had more power than their peers, at times holding out (at least implicitly) the threat that if they didn't get their way, they and their television dollars might walk away and form their own association. But as the gap between the organization's "have" and "have-not" sports programs has grown, so too has the sense among many smaller Division I programs that power is disproportionately and unfairly vested with several dozen universities with big-time sports programs.

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