Posted: Monday August 6, 2012 10:59AM ; Updated: Tuesday August
7, 2012 12:39PM Andy Staples  How television changed college
football -- and how it will again  Story Highlights  Two deals
broke up the CFA, ushered in the modern era of college football
on TV  ESPN hit the mother lode early; its influence has since
changed the sport's culture  As conference networks proliferate,
money and technology remain the wild cards  Decrease font
Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font Chuck Neinas, who
spearheaded the CFA's efforts to rip football rights away from
the NCAA, deserves a spot on the Mount Rushmore of executives
who helped TV change football.  They had taken their fight for
liberation all the way to the Supreme Court and won. So why,
less than five months after the nation's highest court had ruled
in NCAA vs. the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents that the
NCAA's restrictive football television package violated federal
antitrust laws, did almost everyone in the college football
business feel they had lo