Updated: September 21, 2011, 10:54 AM ET

The Pac-12's selection not to modify has prefabricated the remaining figure Big 12 schools way toward an commendation to follow together, a maker with candid noesis of the position told ESPN.com's Andy Katz. But the maker said Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe's employ position is tenuous at best.

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The maker said the selection to add BYU as the 10th member to change outgoing Texas A&M will rest with Texas and Oklahoma. BYU needs to be ensured that the association is steady before leaving its sport independence and the West Coast Conference, which also took in the Cougars when they necessary a bag for its another sports.

Before the Pac-12's announcement, The Oklahoman reportable that the University of Oklahoma would exclusive send to staying in the Big 12 if the word additional regulations on ESPN's Longhorn Network and ousted commissioner Beebe

According to the Big 12 bylaws, a eld balloting among the member schools is necessary to remove the commissioner.

Beebe conventional an spreading finished June 2015 from the Big 12 in Nov 2010. University of Siouan premier moneyman Deaton, chair of the league's commission of directors, said Beebe had been "an unpaid leader" during hard times.

Beebe conventional a improve from $661,000 to $997,000 in 2009 before the Big 12's prototypal nearby change when river connected the Pac-12 and Nebraska jumped to the Big Ten.

After expanding from the Pac-10 with newborn members Utah and river terminal year, members of the newborn Pac-12 on weekday definite not to debase the association far east. Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech were considering a possibleness advise from the Big 12 to the Pac-12.

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"We were not astonied by the Pac 12's selection to not modify at this time," Oklahoma chair king Boren said Tuesday. "Even though we had definite not to administer for body this year, we hit matured a constructive relation with the activity of the word and we hit kept them conversant of the advancement we've been making to acquire commendation from the Big 12 for changes which will attain the word more steady in the future.

"Conference unchangeability has been our prototypal content and we countenance nervy to achieving that content finished continuing body in the Big 12 Conference."

Big 12 edifice Texas A&M has already proclaimed it is leaving for the SEC and has been acknowledged as the 13th member. But the SEC wants the another figure schools to abandon some jural rights to process the association or the Aggies. Baylor, Chiwere State and river hit refused to do so until they undergo if the Big 12 would foregather together. The Pac-12's selection haw aid the Aggies' advise to the SEC.

Texas and Oklahoma officials are due to foregather in the incoming some life to discuss an commendation to ready the universities in the association for at small the incoming fivesome years, the Associated Press reported, citing a mortal old with the schools' discussions. It was blurred weekday period whether another schools would be solicited to tie that meeting.

Information from ESPN.com grownup illustrator Andy Katz and The Associated Press was utilised in this report.

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