Feb. 21, 2008
IRVING, Texas - Big 12 Conference Commissioner Dan Beebe announced the hiring of Tim Weiser as Deputy Commissioner. Weiser joins the Big 12 Conference staff after spending seven years as athletics director at Kansas State University.
"I am delighted that Tim has agreed to join the Big 12 Conference office staff," said Beebe. "He is a valuable addition to an already exceptional team. His extraordinary campus experience will enhance service to our member institutions. In recent years, Tim has told me of his desire to be in position at age 50 to consider different career options. I am grateful that he chose to work in the Conference office and I look forward to what can be accomplished."
In his Big 12 post, Weiser will assist the Commissioner as a staff liaison to the Board of Directors, oversee the day-to-day operation of the Conference office, and coordinate activities in the Commissioner's absence. Weiser fills the vacancy created after Beebe was elevated to Commissioner following the departure of Kevin Weiberg.
"I am excited to begin this new chapter in my career and am looking forward to joining the outstanding staff of the Big 12 Conference," Weiser said. "I appreciate the opportunity Commissioner Beebe has presented to me and I hope my years of administrative experience at the institutional level will prove valuable to the conference.
"My time at Kansas State has been personally and professionally rewarding and certainly filled with many great moments and successes I will never forget. I wasn't looking for opportunities to leave, but after 20 years as an athletics director at four different institutions the timing seemed right for a new challenge when I was approached by Commissioner Beebe. I think I've known for a good while this would be my last AD's job."
Weiser has been guiding the K-State athletic program since 2001. Under his direction the Wildcats have enjoyed consistent growth in the areas of revenue, donor and corporate support, and facility enhancement. Over the past four years nearly half of KSU's student-athletes have achieved a 3.0, or better, grade point average. Kansas State has sent no fewer than 10 of its 16 teams on to postseason play in each of the previous three years.
Prior to being named the 13th director of intercollegiate athletics at Kansas State, Weiser served a three-year stint as AD at Colorado State where he played an instrumental role in the start and development of the Mountain West Conference.
A native of Great Bend, Kan., and a graduate of Emporia State with a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in counseling, Weiser began his career in collegiate athletics administration in 1983 at Wichita State. In 1988 he was named athletics director at Austin Peay before taking the same post at Eastern Michigan in '93.
Weiser has been active on a national level where he was president of the Division I-A Athletic Directors' Association, in addition to serving on the NCAA's Championships Cabinet and Division I Baseball Committee.
