In those wild, wild West days Neinas actually ran the CFA out of the Big Eight office. Think of the SEC today running the BCS out of Birmingham. People would freak.
"All Chuck did was provide the freedom to do the TV," Duke said. "He didn't provide the greed that went along with it. A lot of people felt that was going to happen from the outset. I predicted the realignment and jumping from conference to conference."
Among those who agreed with Duke was Supreme Court Justice Byron "Whizzer" White. The former Colorado star wrote a dissenting opinion in the 1984 decision that predicted college football "could not trust its competitors."
That sounds more than relevant today. The seemingly unabated race for money has pointed up college football's lack of leadership. There are conference commissioners but there is no overall leader of the sport to oversee them. Left to their own desires, those commissioners, presidents and boards of regents have stumbled all over themselves "to do what's best for (insert school looking at another conference)."
