Sports is a microcosm.
These things just re-emphasize how crazy things can get when you don't have anyone at the top looking at the big picture. In many ways, the NCAA has attempted to be that, but this is bigger than the NCAA... you just have too many power conferences and power schools within those conferences who... oddly enough... just acquired even more political muscle within NCAA.
This, too, is solvable. But this, too, would require a lot of disagreeable people coming to agreement.