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Old 05-03-2012, 08:08 AM   #3085
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The Big 12 has offered its commissioner's job to Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby, multiple conference and industry sources told ESPN.com on Wednesday night.


The Big 12 has been searching for a replacement for Dan Beebe, who was fired last year. Chuck Neinas has been serving as the interim commissioner.
A source with knowledge of the situation said late Wednesday night that Bowlsby is expected to accept the job and a formal announcement from the conference could come as early as Friday.

Bowlsby was in Phoenix the past few days as the Big 12 and Pac 12 meetings overlapped. Bowlsby has a strong relationship with Pac 12 commissioner Larry Scott. Bowlsby was on the search committee that discovered Scott, with the aid of search firm executive Jed Hughes who has handled both searches for the Big 12 and Pac 12 commissioner's jobs. Hughes was at a different firm for the Pac 12 search firm than he is for the Big 12 search.



Bowlsby has been highly respected by his Pac 12 colleagues, and sources said he had a strong endorsement from Scott.


Bowlsby also was influential in the Pac 12 negotiating a new television agreement that will show all its games next season on a number of networks, from ESPN, to Fox, to the new Pac-12 network.


Bowlsby also is a former chairman of the NCAA men's basketball committee.
Bowlsby became Stanford's athletic director in spring 2006 after serving in the same capacity at Iowa from 1991-2006. He is highly respected within the NCAA and with the United States Olympic Committee after serving on its board of directors.


The Big 12 is on the verge of finalizing a new television contract, and the league exhibited a strong sense of stability at its league meetings this week.



The league lost Missouri and Texas A&M to the SEC, but replaced those schools with tradition-rich West Virginia and football power TCU to maintain a 10-team format. Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas have continued to pledge allegiance to the conference.



If Bowlsby accepts the Big 12 offer, he likely would ascend to a strong position amid the top three power six commissioners along with the Big Ten's Jim Delany, the SEC's Mike Slive and the trailblazer Scott.
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