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

School athletics are likely to search pretty different in the coming years, and new NCAA Huge 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is perfectly mindful. 

At Massive 12 Media Days, Yormark was asked about probably introducing groups from the Pac-12 meeting, two weeks following USC and UCLA announced their transfer to the Massive Ten meeting in 2024. 

“As I mentioned in my opening opinions, we’re discovering all possibilities,” Yormark said on Wednesday. “And we’re open for business. And optionality is superior, and we’re vetting all of them. I consider it is reasonable to say I’ve received a whole lot of phone calls, a lot of desire. We are checking out individuals ranges of interest. Practically nothing is imminent.”

Subsequent the news out of Los Angeles, the Pac-12 also stated they have been on the lookout to expand. 

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“The Pac-12 Board of Directors met this morning and authorized the Convention to discover all expansion selections,” the Pac-12 stated on Twitter. “The 10 college presidents and chancellors continue to be committed to a shared mission of tutorial and athletic excellence on behalf of our university student-athletes.”

College or university athletics is relocating towards getting two super conferences in the SEC and the Major Ten, with Texas and Oklahoma moving from the Huge 12 to the SEC in 2025. The additions of USC and UCLA to the Significant 10 adjusted the landscape of college football as faculties consider to posture on their own transferring ahead. 

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Even though the Major 12 will be getting rid of Oklahoma and Texas in the following handful of a long time, the conference will be adding four educational facilities in 2023, with BYU, UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati signing up for the meeting. 

Yormark also mentioned the new era of Identify, Picture, and Likeness (NIL), saying that he’s a proponent for players profiting off of their manufacturers. 

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“I can say at a large amount, I’m an advocate of NIL,” Yormark informed reporters Wednesday. “I obtained my toes wet at some degree at Roc Nation, exactly where we had been engaged in NIL. From a personalized issue of perspective [I] have not definitely spoken to our important stakeholders about it. I think there wants to be guardrails. There possibly requires to be uniformity. And maybe the convention needs to get a even larger job in what NIL seems like going ahead.”

Yormark will take above responsibilities as Major 12 commissioner on Aug. 1.