Debate over antiquated NCAA goes way beyond pay-for-play

Administrators can pontificate all they'd like. At some point, they will have to deal with the real world in 2013. Delany, to his credit, has said that the system is antiquated. As one of the most powerful people in college sports, he should lead the charge to change it.

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and feature stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of “War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest.” Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year’s best sportswriting. He is married with three children.