New Big 12 commissioner says conference is ‘open for business’ when it comes to expansion

School athletics are heading to glimpse quite different in the coming years, and new NCAA Major 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is well knowledgeable. 

At Large 12 Media Times, Yormark was asked about most likely introducing groups from the Pac-12 meeting, two months following USC and UCLA introduced their shift to the Significant 10 convention in 2024. 

Brett Yormark CEO of Barclays Middle, talks with members of the media about the forthcoming PBC on FOX card at Barclays Centre on June 18, 2019, in New York Town.
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“As I stated in my opening reviews, we’re exploring all solutions,” Yormark mentioned on Wednesday. “And we’re open up for business. And optionality is excellent, and we’re vetting all of them. I think it really is truthful to say I have gained a lot of cell phone calls, a whole lot of fascination. We’re discovering those people concentrations of curiosity. Nothing is imminent.”

Pursuing the news out of Los Angeles, the Pac-12 also reported they have been seeking to grow. 

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“The Pac-12 Board of Directors satisfied this morning and approved the Conference to take a look at all expansion solutions,” the Pac-12 stated on Twitter. “The 10 college presidents and chancellors keep on being fully commited to a shared mission of educational and athletic excellence on behalf of our university student-athletes.”

College athletics is going towards obtaining two super conferences in the SEC and the Major 10, with Texas and Oklahoma transferring from the Major 12 to the SEC in 2025. The additions of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten adjusted the landscape of college football as faculties try to situation by themselves going ahead. 

Head coach Brent Venables of the Oklahoma Sooners stands with his workforce for the alma mater through their spring recreation at Gaylord Loved ones Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on April 23, 2022, in Norman, Oklahoma.  
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Whilst the Large 12 will be getting rid of Oklahoma and Texas in the subsequent several yrs, the meeting will be incorporating four schools in 2023, with BYU, UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati joining the meeting. 

Yormark also reviewed the new era of Title, Graphic, and Likeness (NIL), saying that he’s a proponent for players profiting off of their models. 

A Major 12 emblem is found on the turf throughout the Orange-White Spring Game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on April 23, 2022 in Austin, Texas. 
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“I can say at a high stage, I’m an advocate of NIL,” Yormark instructed reporters Wednesday. “I received my ft soaked at some diploma at Roc Nation, where we had been engaged in NIL. From a individual position of perspective [I] have not definitely spoken to our crucial stakeholders about it. I feel there desires to be guardrails. There probably wants to be uniformity. And perhaps the convention requires to take a more substantial purpose in what NIL seems to be like transferring ahead.”

Yormark will acquire around duties as Big 12 commissioner on Aug. 1.