38-587: Leber is a surname, and may refer to: Ben Leber - American football player Georg Leber - German politician Jean Michel Constant Leber - French historian Julius Leber - German politician and resistance fighter Theodor Leber - German ophthalmologist who first described the diseases now known as Leber's congenital amaurosis and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy Titus Leber - Austrian film director Walter Philip Leber - former Panama Canal Zone Governor Wilhelm Leber - Chief Apostle of
76-526: A New Year's Six bowl game and have been granted exemptions from certain NCAA rules. The Big 12 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization . Brett Yormark became the commissioner on August 1, 2022. The Big 12 was founded in February 1994. All eight members of the former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference ( Texas , Texas A&M , Baylor and Texas Tech ) to form
114-846: A best-in-class team to build a best-in-class business strategy for the Conference". November 14, 2022 Big 12 formed a comprehensive business advisor board composed of over three dozen entrepreneurial icons and respective industry leaders. From the likes of Monte Lipman the Founder/CEO Republic Records , Steve Stoute Founder/CEO UnitedMasters & Translation, Mark Shapiro President of Endeavor, Gary Vaynerchuk ’s VaynerMedia, singer Garth Brooks , NBA legend Jason Kidd , Keith Sheldon President of Entertainment for Hard Rock Cafe International, and Ross Levinsohn Chairman and CEO - The Arena Group & Sports Illustrated . The Big 12 partnered with creative agency Translation to help build
152-616: A buyout agreement that allowed those schools to join the Big 12 in 2023. On February 9, 2023, Oklahoma and Texas announced they had reached a settlement with the conference that allowed them to join the SEC on July 1, 2024. On July 27, 2023, Colorado , a former member of the Big 12, announced it would rejoin the conference from the Pac-12 beginning in the 2024–25 academic year. The following week, Arizona , Arizona State , and Utah announced they would leave
190-696: A conference version of the NFL combine , the Pro Day would be televised on NFL Network . In March, the Big 12 Conference announced a partnership with the legendary Rucker Park for a community engagement event. In June the event was officially announced as "Big 12 Hoops in the Park", to host men's and women's summer exhibition games. Throughout the event, the Big 12 is also preparing a number of entertainment activities and community engagements. The activities include youth clinics, meet-and-greets, live music, and food. Early June 2023,
228-575: A more contemporary audience and brand. Soon after Big 12 Conference made a deal with A Bathing Ape (BAPE) for Championship games. The Conference and BAPE worked together to create limited-edition clothing and a camouflaged Big 12 logo throughout the stadium, arena, and uniforms. The Big 12 has 11 official corporate partners: Allstate , Children’s Health , Dr Pepper , Gatorade , Grand Caliber, Old Trapper, On Location, Phillips 66 , Sonic Hard Seltzer , Sprouts Farmers Market , and Tickets For Less. There are dozens of other companies engaged as sponsors of
266-580: A separate table below). Men's (and Coed – see Rifle) varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 universities: Below are the women's sports sponsored by each member institution. The only women's sports with full participation by the entire conference are basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, indoor track and outdoor track. Oklahoma State is the only member that does not sponsor volleyball, and only Utah and West Virginia do not sponsor golf. Beach volleyball (4 full members) and equestrian (3 full members, 1 affiliate) have
304-710: Is a member of the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. The Big 12 is one of the Power Four conferences , the four highest-earning and most historically successful FBS football conferences. Power Four conferences are guaranteed at least one bid to
342-660: Is a radio sideline analyst for the Minnesota Vikings. He also broadcasts on KFAN and Co-Hosts Twin Cities Live on ABC affiliate KSTP . Big 12 Conference The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas . It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona , Colorado , Florida , Iowa , Kansas , Ohio , Oklahoma , Texas , Utah , and West Virginia . The Big 12
380-596: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ben Leber Ben Leber (born December 7, 1978) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the third round of the 2002 NFL draft and later played for the Minnesota Vikings . Lining up primarily at running back, Leber
418-721: Is in Manhattan, Kansas , which is part of the Topeka, Kansas media market, but it is close to the Wichita market, which encompasses two-thirds of the state (stretching to the border with Colorado ), including the cities of Dodge City , Garden City , Hutchinson and Salina . While the University of Kansas is in Lawrence, Kansas , it has close proximity to the Kansas City television market, increasing
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#1732869669873456-562: The Associated Press , a consensus All- Big 12 Conference first-team choice, and a team captain. He received a degree in business-general management in 2002. Leber was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the third round of the 2002 NFL draft . He was an immediate-impact rookie, playing in all 16 games and starting 14 of them. He was selected to both the Pro Football Weekly and Football Digest All-Rookie teams, finishing
494-679: The Big Eight Conference Timeline which predates the Big 12 timeline for founding members: Click here for the Southwest Conference Timeline which predates the Big 12 timeline for founding members: Current members with the longest continuous association with the Big Eight Conference / Southwest Conference / Big 12 Conference. The Big 12 Conference sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 15 women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Source : Below are
532-731: The New Apostolic Church Jonathan Leber - Austrian Politician of the FPÖ See also [ edit ] Leber, Washington [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Leber . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leber&oldid=1216102626 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
570-629: The "Big 12 Mexico" was announced, which will include men's and women's soccer, baseball, basketball, and football games and an international media rights strategy. The Big 12 Mexico will debut in December 2024 with men's and women's basketball games between Kansas and Houston at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City . The Big 12 will also consider hosting a football bowl game in Monterrey beginning in 2026. This would be
608-466: The 14 presidents and chancellors of SEC member universities voted unanimously to invite Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC. The following day, the Texas Board of Regents and Oklahoma Board of Regents each accepted the invitation to join the SEC from July 1, 2025. On September 10, 2021, the Big 12 announced that invitations had been extended to and accepted by BYU (a football independent and member of
646-483: The Big 12 and not its new conference". GOR is seen by league members as a "foundation of stability" and allowed the Big 12 to be "positioned with one of the best media rights arrangements in collegiate sports, providing the conference and its members unprecedented revenue growth, and sports programming over two networks." All members agreed to the GOR and later agreed to extend the initial 6-year deal to 13 years to correspond to
684-409: The Big 12. The unique arrangement potentially allows Big 12 members to remain some of college sports' highest revenue earners. Other conferences' cable deals are subject to value reductions based on how people acquire cable programming; Big 12 universities' tier 3 deals are exempt. Texas alone earned more than $ 150 million of that total from their Longhorn Network before it was shut down with its move to
722-589: The Pac-12 for the Big 12, also effective for the 2024–25 academic year. The largest media markets represented by the Big 12 are, ranked nationally: Although West Virginia University is based out of Morgantown, West Virginia (officially part of the Pittsburgh (26th) media market), the TV market encompasses the majority of West Virginia's TV viewership and also reaches well into Western Pennsylvania . Kansas State University
760-526: The SEC, ESPN also ran a dedicated cable network for the Texas Longhorns known as Longhorn Network , as a joint venture between the university and Learfield . The Big 12 has a sponsorship rights partnership with Learfield IMG College . The Big 12 announced on September 9, 2022, that it appointed WME Sports and IMG Media , Endeavor companies, to facilitate its global content and commercial strategy. Commissioner Brett Yormark stated "We have aligned with
798-401: The SEC. As of 2022, all of the Big 12's tier 3 rights are held by ESPN; it bought the tier 3 rights to most Big 12 teams (besides Oklahoma) in 2019, moving the events exclusively to ESPN+ . The Oklahoma Sooners retained an agreement with Bally Sports Oklahoma (which distributed its football game via pay-per-view ) until 2022, when it also sold its rights to ESPN+. Prior to its departure to
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#1732869669873836-585: The Texas Tech vs. Kansas State football game being the first-ever sports event staged by the conference. From its formation until 2011, its 12 members competed in two divisions in most sports. The two Oklahoma universities and the four Texas universities formed the South Division, while the other six universities of the former Big Eight formed the North Division. Between 2011 and 2012 four charter members left
874-439: The base into western Missouri . * Arizona State University * University of Utah Member universities granted their first and second tier sports media rights to the conference for the length of their current TV deals. The Grant of Rights (GOR) deal with the leagues' TV contracts ensures that "if a Big 12 school leaves for another league in the next 13 years, that school's media rights, including revenue, would remain with
912-441: The conference, with play beginning in 1996. Arizona , Arizona State , Colorado , and Utah joined the conference on August 2, 2024, as part of a more extensive NCAA conference realignment . Full members Other Conference Other Conference Affiliate member (other sport) Founding members from Big 8 Conference Founding members from Southwest Conference Click here for
950-552: The conference. On March 15, 2023, before the NFL Draft , the Big 12 announced the first of its kind across all college conferences , being a conference-wide Pro Day . Instead of schools hosting separate pro days for their football players, there will be only one conference-wide scouting event before the 2024 NFL draft. The event will be held at the Dallas Cowboys training complex, Ford Center at The Star . What essentially would be
988-497: The conference: In 2012, two universities joined the conference: On July 26, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas notified the Big 12 Conference that the two universities did not wish to extend their grant of television rights beyond the 2024–25 athletic year. On July 27, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas sent a joint letter to the Southeastern Conference requesting an invitation for membership beginning July 1, 2025. On July 29, 2021,
1026-541: The first-ever bowl game in Mexico. Conference revenue comes mostly from television contracts, bowl games , the NCAA , merchandise, licensing and conference-hosted sporting events. The Conference distributes revenue annually to member institutions. From 1996 to 2011, 57 percent of revenue was allotted equally; while 43 percent was based upon the number of football and men's basketball television appearances and other factors. In 2011,
1064-505: The former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference ( Texas , Texas A&M , Baylor and Texas Tech ) to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996. The Big 12 does not claim the Big Eight's history as its own, even though it was essentially the Big Eight plus four of the Texas universities. The Big 12 began athletic play in fall 1996, with
1102-765: The length of their TV contracts. Prior to this agreement, the Big Ten and Pac-12 also had similar GOR agreements. The Big 12 subsequently assisted the ACC in drafting its GOR agreement. Three of the four major conferences now have such agreements, with the SEC the only exception. The Big 12 is the only major conference that allows members to monetize TV rights for tier 3 events in football and men's basketball. This allows individual Big 12 member institutions to create tier 3 deals that include TV rights for one home football game and four home men's basketball games per season. Tier 3 rights exist for other sports as well, but these are not unique to
1140-436: The lowest participation, each with 4 total members. Lacrosse (3 full members, 3 affiliates) and rowing (4 full members, 2 affiliates) follow with 6 total members. The affiliate members are listed in a separate table below. Women's (and co-educational – see Rifle) varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 universities: The Big 12 Conference was founded in February 1994. All eight members of
1178-581: The men's sports sponsored by each member institution. The only men's sports with full participation by the entire conference are basketball, football, and golf. Swimming and diving has the lowest participation with only seven universities fielding a team. The Big 12 fields 14 teams for wrestling. Before the conference's 2023 expansion, it had the most competing schools of any Big 12 sport, with 13 members at that time. The 2022–23 and 2024–25 wrestling lineups both included only 4 full conference members; all remaining wrestling schools were affiliate members (listed in
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1216-661: The non-football West Coast Conference ) and three members of the American Athletic Conference in Cincinnati , UCF , and Houston . These moves, combined with the impending departure of Oklahoma and Texas, would once again increase the Big 12's membership to twelve schools. All four schools began competing in Big 12 athletics beginning in summer of 2023. BYU had initially announced that it would join in 2023, and Houston indicated it could do so as well. On June 10, 2022, The American and its three departing members announced
1254-469: The year with 49 tackles, 5 sacks (third on the team), and 3 forced fumbles (first on the team). In his second season, Leber started every game at strong side linebacker for the Chargers, notching 75 tackles, 3 sacks, 1 pass defensed, and 1 forced fumble. In his third year, he was an every-game starter for the Chargers, finishing the season with 58 tackles, 2 sacks, and 1 fumble recovery. The next season, Leber
1292-475: Was also an Academic All-State selection. At Kansas State , Leber made the switch to full-time linebacker. A two-time All-Big 12 selection, he finished his college career with 216 tackles, 46 tackles for loss, and 13.5 sacks. His 216 career tackles were the fifth most in Kansas State history. As a junior, he earned second-team all-conference honors. The year later, he was an All-America third-team selection by
1330-614: Was even better—playing in all 16 games, Leber notched 67 tackles, 5 sacks, 2 forced fumbles, and 1 interception. In 2008, Leber again played the full season, recording 64 tackles, a career-low 1.5 sacks, and 2 interceptions. On August 9, 2011, Leber signed with the St. Louis Rams . On December 3, 2011, Leber was waived by the Rams. Despite having worked out for the Philadelphia Eagles in March 2012, he
1368-500: Was injured during training camp and again during the season. This led to him losing his starting position to future Pro-Bowler Shawne Merriman . He finished 2005 with 22 tackles, 2 sacks and 1 fumble recovery. As an unrestricted free agent, Leber was signed by the Minnesota Vikings on March 11, 2006. Playing in 15 games, he finished his first season with the team with 46 tackles, 3 sacks, 1 interception, 3 forced fumbles, 2 fumble recoveries and 1 fumble recovery touchdown. The next year
1406-580: Was named to several high school All-America teams at Vermillion High School in Vermillion, South Dakota . As a junior, he rushed for 1,404 yards and 18 touchdowns, and notched 1,350 yards in his senior year. That season, he was declared a Parade Magazine All-America (the only South Dakotan so honored in 1997), an honorable mention All-USA by USA Today , and was selected to play in the North-South Dakota All-Star game. An excellent student, he
1444-492: Was unable to find an interested team. He announced his retirement from professional football on June 18, 2012. Leber was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and raised in Vermillion, South Dakota . He is the son of Al and Han Leber. His brother, Jason, was an All-American running back at the University of South Dakota . His Mother, Han, is Korean. Leber is married to his wife Abby, and they have 2 sons and 1 daughter. He
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