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Kevin Weiberg, Pete Richardson, Tony Moss Kevin Weiberg Commissioner, Big 12 Conference Why You Should Know Him: Under the leadership of Commissioner Kevin Weiberg, the Big 12 is regarded as one of the nation’s top conferences and has made progress in the areas of national competitive success, television exposure, conference championships, and football bowl agreements. Weiberg, however, inherits an arguably more challenging assignment in June when he becomes chair of the Bowl Championship Series. Rotated among the commissioners of the BCS conferences, Weiberg takes over for outgoing chair Mike Tranghese of the Big East Conference. The next few months will undoubtedly include a lot of opinion, controversy, and debate as a number of issues face the BCS commissioners. Among them: emphasis on the weight given to the AP media poll and the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’ poll in the revised BCS