Because he's done SUCH a fine job with CUSA
Sources: At least four vie for Big 12 post (Chip Brown, DMN)
At least four candidates to replace Kevin Weiberg as Big 12 commissioner have interviewed this week with the executive committee charged with cutting the list down to two finalists, according to several sources close to the situation.
Those candidates include Rick Chryst, commissioner of the Mid-American Conference; Britton Banowsky, commissioner of Conference USA; Wright Waters, commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference; and interim Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe, according to the sources.
Two sources said the committee also interviewed a candidate from outside of college athletics, although the identity of that candidate wasn’t immediately clear.
Banowsky, 47, who interviewed with the committee on Tuesday, said Wednesday night he has withdrawn his name from consideration.
“I advised the committee that I appreciated the opportunity to visit with them, but I don’t have interest in the job,” said Banowsky, who served as associate commissioner of the Big 12 before taking over at Conference USA six years ago. “I love working with Conference USA.”
This is what job candidates say when hiring committees laugh at them.
And given Britton Banowsky's tenure as CUSA commish (as he oversaw a once-great basketball conference's decline to a second-rate conference all the way around), I can imagine there was hearty laughter all the way around before the committee sent him back to CUSA.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/29/07 23:30 | Sports | Technorati
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