WASHINGTON -- An overwhelming majority of Division I athletic directors at the annual fall LEAD1 meeting on Wednesday expressed a "strong preference" to keep FBS football under the NCAA if it can be more streamlined and less bureaucratic.
Tom McMillen, the CEO and president of the organization representing the 131 athletic directors in the FBS, said there were a total of 105 ADs who participated in the closed-door discussions (about 80 in-person and the rest virtually), and that by a show of hands in the room, it was clear they prefer the NCAA continues its oversight of the most popular sport in college athletics.