10/10/2011
Titre de la noteA week after a 31-point loss
group of schools, its
survival and its strength
going forward is more
worthwhile than my
personal situation.”
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP)
—Nebraska might look back
on its record-setting
comeback win over Ohio
State as the game that
saved its season.
A week after a 31-point loss
at Wisconsin, the
Cornhuskers trailed by 21
points in the third quarter
before they won 34-27
Saturday night in the
greatest comeback in
program history.
With a challenging schedule
in their inaugural Big Ten
season, an 0-2 start in
league play would have
been devastating for the
preseason pick to win the
Legends Division.
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The Huskers (5-1, 1-1),
who remained No. 14 in The
Associated Press Top 25
and a game behind
Michigan
in the division, have an
open date this week before
they go to struggling
Minnesota on Oct. 22.
Home games against No. 23
Michigan State and
Northwestern follow. Back-
to-back road games against
Penn State and No. 11
Michigan precede Iowa’s
Thanksgiving weekend visit.
“Our football team is ready
for a bye,” coach Bo Pelini
said. “I think they need a
break, mentally and
physically.”
Ohio State (3-3, 0-2)
probably would like to get
away from the stress and
strain of the season, too.
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Titre de la noteTexas—liked the idea of
Ousted Big 12 Commissioner
Dan Beebe says he touted
equal revenue sharing and
members handing their
television rights to the
conference years ago, but
the schools—and not just
Texas—liked the idea of
being able to start their
own networks.
Beebe said in a phone
interview with The
Associated Press on Sunday
that Oklahoma, Nebraska
and even Texas A&M were
interested in “developing
their own distribution
systems” for their sports
programs.
The Big 12 recently agreed
to switch to equal revenue
sharing after years in which
the schools that made the
most television
appearances received the
most money.
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The eight remaining
schools—not including
Missouri, which is
considering a switch to the
Southeastern
Conference—also agreed to
hand their most lucrative
television rights over to the
conference for six years, a
move that makes it
practically impossible for
members to switch leagues.
Beebe said he first brought
up equal revenue sharing in
2008 and the members
never even voted on it.
Nebraska, which left the Big
12 for the Big Ten last year,
was among the schools
against equal revenue
sharing.
In 2009, ahead of
negotiations on a new
television contract, Beebe
said he asked the members
to grant the conference
their top-tier TV rights, and
the schools balked again
Titre de la notemove to the SEC before he
without it ever going to a
vote.
“Had we been able to do
that none of the schools
probably would of had a
chance to leave because a
significant amount of their
rights would have been with
the conference,” he said.
Now that the Big 12 has
moved to implement the
ideas Beebe had pushed for
in the past, he said it’s
“bittersweet.”
“It’s sweet because
hopefully it will be what
binds this conference
together and I have a great
love for the conference,”
he said. “But it’s bitter
because had we taken
these actions previously we
may have been able to
avoid the problems that
have occurred.”
Beebe also said he was
disappointed to find out
Texas A&M already had
been working toward a
move to the SEC before he
was allowed to address the
Aggies’ concerns about
Texas’ Longhorn Network.
A&M officials were upset
about plans for high school
games to be aired on the
Longhorn Network, a plan
that ended up being
scrapped.
“I found out later that there
had been a meeting
between Texas A&M
officials and SEC officials
prior to us having the ability
to address (the Aggies’)
grievances,” he said.
“I think the conference
decisions that were made
by the members as a whole
ended up being a place that
addressed many of their
grievances. Maybe not
perfectly, but more to their
favor than not.”
In the summer of 2010, the
Titre de la note“What wasn’t counted on in
Big 12 was on the verge of
collapse. Nebraska left for
the Big Ten, and Colorado
joined the Pac-12. Texas
A&M was considering a
move to the Southeastern
Conference and Texas and
Oklahoma, along with their
sister schools Texas Tech
and Oklahoma State, were
looking at creating a Pac-
16.
Ultimately, the 10 remaining
members committed to stay
together and Beebe
negotiated a 13-year, $1
billion television deal with
Fox Sports.
But when Texas struck a
huge deal with ESPN to
start to the Longhorn
Network, a 20-year, $300
million venture between the
university and network, it
changed the dynamic in the
league.
“The institutional networks
were part of the design of
what we were doing when
we were negotiating our
contract with Fox,” Beebe
said. “We were for the first
time deliberately setting out
to reserve the right for
every school to do a
football game and to do
significant other content
that wasn’t able to be done
previously.
“What wasn’t counted on in
allowing that was the
degree of support and the
amount of revenue that
was able to be achieved by
the Longhorn Network and
even (Texas Athletic
Director) DeLoss Dodds has
said that isn’t something he
thought was going to
happen either.”
Beebe was pushed out of
the job he had held for five
years last month and
replaced on an interim basis
by Chuck Neinas, the
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Titre de la noteHe also said he has been in
former Big Eight
commissioner.
Beebe said he was never
given a specific reason as
to why he was fired.
University of Oklahoma
President David Boren led
the push for Beebe’s
removal.
“Obviously there were some
concerns he had about the
fact that three members
had left during my tenure
and whether I could have
done anything differently or
not that was a factor,”
Beebe said. “It’s their right
to do what they did. And I
have nothing but respect
and admiration for the
institutions and a great love
for the conference and its
schools and the citizens
they represent.
“I didn’t get specifics about
what decisions I had made
or didn’t make so I could
address those specifically.
But that’s fine. It was more
nebulous. It was more, ‘We
just need to go in a
different direction.”’
The Big 12 invited TCU last
week to join the league,
which would push
membership back to 10, if
Missouri stays.
Beebe, naturally, said
Missouri would be best
served by staying.
He also said he has been in
contact with Neinas and has
offered any assistance he
can provide in helping keep
the conference together.
“The Big 12 conference is
bigger than me,” he said.
“Personally, (being fired)
hurt. It hurt to have some
really false things put out in
the press that your whole
family reads and your
colleagues read, but the
fact of the matter is when I
step back … I love this
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