Charles Merrill Neinas (born January 18, 1932, in Wisconsin) is a former commissioner of the

Big Eight Conference The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored American football, football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate ...

from 1971 to 1980. Neinas also served as interim commissioner of the

Big 12 Conference The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida ...

from 2011 to 2012. He was the 1996 Amos Alonzo Stagg Award winner.

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