Background
Beebe, Dan was born on February 27, 1957 in Walla Walla, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of James Preston and Judith Ann (Rooks) Harwood.
Beebe, Dan was born on February 27, 1957 in Walla Walla, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of James Preston and Judith Ann (Rooks) Harwood.
Attended, Walla Walla Community College, 1975—1977. Bachelor of Science in Social Sciences cum laude, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1979. Juris Doctor, University California, Hastings, 1982.
In 1979 he received a Bachelors from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where he was team captain on their football team His first job out of school was working in enforcement of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules from 1982 to 1986. He was assistant director of athletics at Wichita State University from 1986 to 1987.
In 1987 he was named director of enforcement for the National Collegiate Athletic Association with his most notable case being the imposition of the "death penalty" against Southern Methodist University in the Southern Methodist University football scandal.
From 1989 to 2003 he was commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference. On September 5, 2007, he was promoted to commissioner.
Beebe had a stormy relationship at the helm as the University of Nebraska moved to the Big Ten Conference and University of Colorado moved to the Pac-12 Conference at the end of the 2010-2011 season. Then Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University and the University of Missouri announced in the fall of 2011 that they were moving to the Securities and Exchange Commission Conference at the end of the 2011-2012 season.
The moves ended a 100+ year relationship of Missouri and Nebraska to the conference as well as ended a 100+ year rivalry between Texas Agricultural and Mechanical and the University of Texas.
The departures had been stirred by a University of Texas deal with Entertainment and Sports Programming Network to broadcast games on the Longhorn Network which was valued at $300 million over 25 years. Texas said it would broadcast high school highlights (which other schools felt would put them at a disadvantage when recruiting future players) and Texas initially indicated it would not share revenue from the deal with its fellow conference members. Texas had been talking about such an arrangement since 2007.
After schools, in particular the University of Oklahoma and its president David Boren, urged his ouster for not doing enough to smooth school concerns, he was ousted on September 23, 2011.
Beebe said that he had proposed equal revenue distribution in the conference as early as 2008 but that the conference had not voted on lieutenant Further he noted he had negotiated a 13-year $1 billion deal with Fox Sports.
Board member Collegiate Women Sports Awards, Honda Award, Young Men’s Christian Association, Nashville Sports Council. Member Washington State Bar Association, BRAVONashville.
Married Jennifer Ann Frisbie, July 28, 1984 (divorced April 1993). Children: Jessie, Matt, Elaine.