New Big 12 commissioner says conference is ‘open for business’ when it comes to expansion
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Higher education athletics are going to look pretty diverse in the coming decades, and new NCAA Major 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is very well informed.
At Huge 12 Media Times, Yormark was asked about possibly including teams from the Pac-12 meeting, two months after USC and UCLA announced their move to the Massive Ten convention in 2024.
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“As I mentioned in my opening comments, we’re exploring all possibilities,” Yormark explained on Wednesday. “And we’re open for company. And optionality is good, and we’re vetting all of them. I imagine it can be good to say I have acquired a ton of phone phone calls, a lot of curiosity. We’re exploring those people concentrations of desire. Very little is imminent.”
Subsequent the information out of Los Angeles, the Pac-12 also explained they have been wanting to increase.
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“The Pac-12 Board of Directors met this morning and licensed the Conference to discover all enlargement selections,” the Pac-12 stated on Twitter. “The 10 university presidents and chancellors continue being dedicated to a shared mission of educational and athletic excellence on behalf of our university student-athletes.”
School athletics is shifting towards obtaining two tremendous conferences in the SEC and the Significant 10, with Texas and Oklahoma moving from the Large 12 to the SEC in 2025. The additions of USC and UCLA to the Significant 10 improved the landscape of college football as universities try out to placement themselves going ahead.
Head coach Brent Venables of the Oklahoma Sooners stands with his workforce for the alma mater all through their spring video game at Gaylord Loved ones Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on April 23, 2022, in Norman, Oklahoma.
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Although the Large 12 will be losing Oklahoma and Texas in the next number of many years, the meeting will be incorporating four universities in 2023, with BYU, UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati becoming a member of the meeting.
Yormark also talked about the new period of Identify, Graphic, and Likeness (NIL), stating that he’s a proponent for gamers profiting off of their manufacturers.
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“I can say at a significant amount, I’m an advocate of NIL,” Yormark informed reporters Wednesday. “I received my toes wet at some degree at Roc Country, where we had been engaged in NIL. From a private position of look at [I] have not definitely spoken to our key stakeholders about it. I think there requirements to be guardrails. There in all probability needs to be uniformity. And possibly the conference requirements to take a bigger job in what NIL appears to be like going ahead.”
Yormark will get over duties as Massive 12 commissioner on Aug. 1.
