Phog Allen’s grandson is mad as heck, and he’s not going to take it anymore.

Mark Allen, a physician in Kansas City, grew more heated by the second Sunday night as he torched the notion of the Pac-10 possibly raiding six schools from the Big 12 to form a super conference.

“What is this about?” Allen asked during a phone conversation. “Is this about student-athletes, or is this about athletes making money for the athletic department?”

Allen pointed to the absurdity of a Texas Tech volleyball team flying to Pullman, Wash., for a match. The idea of Missouri’s baseball team playing a Big Ten schedule and replacing all those bus trips with flights makes Allen wonder just how much of the added TV revenue would go to additional expenses.

He’s more concerned, though, with the loss of class hours for student-athletes already pressed for time.

“A good friend of mine is the father of a tennis player at Indiana,” Allen said. “They’re up at 5 in the morning and in the weight room by 5:50. It’s a major commitment, and now you want to add all that travel time? It doesn’t make sense.”

Phog Allen always told his grandchildren that he couldn’t judge which of his teams were the best until the players from those teams got out into the business world.

“To him, basketball was kind of a metaphor for life,” Mark Allen said. “It taught lessons.”

Those of us who derive great entertainment from watching college sports, particularly football and basketball, tend to think about what’s best for us. For Mark Allen, who listened to his grandfather tell him what was important, the experience for the student-athlete tends to come first.

“The vast majority are never going to play professional anything,” he said. “The vast majority of football and basketball players aren’t going to play professionally, and none of these other sports are going to enable the athletes to make money. You know what my biggest disappointment is? The NCAA. Why aren’t they weighing in? Do they have an opinion?”

Phog Allen, if he were alive, would have an opinion. Of that his grandson is certain.

“I think about what my grandfather would have thought about all this,” Mark Allen said. “Phog would just be staggered. He wouldn’t believe all this is going on. I look at him as the champion of the amateur athlete. He was very serious about the purity of amateurism. That’s out the window now. Since when does television determine what student-athletes’ schedules are like? That’s a real travesty if our university presidents succumb to that. They need to tell the athletic directors we’re not doing that. They need to take the high road. I put it right back on the presidents.”

Allen’s right. It’s the presidents and chancellors who need to prevent TV executives from taking control of their universities.

“The money from television dominates,” he said. “It’s the puppet master. Athletic directors are the puppets. The presidents have to realize the bigger picture here. If the NCAA is a farm club for the NBA and NFL, that’s pitiful. That’s a heck of a mission statement.”

The NCAA needs to make this guy the keynote speaker at its next convention.