2024-09-07 11:30:02
DALLAS, Texas – Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark and Chief Football Officer Scott Draper are at Gerald R. Ford Stadium for tonight’s BYU vs. SMU game in Dallas.
The Cougars are in the Lone Star State against the SMU Mustangs for their first road game of 2024.
Yormark has headed the Big 12 since August 2022 and is the fifth commissioner in conference history. Draper was promoted to Chief Football & Competition Officer at the Big 12 earlier this year.
Following reports of further conference expansion that could include the UConn Huskies, Yormark issued a statement earlier this week.
“As commissioner, it is my responsibility to explore a variety of value-creating opportunities on behalf of the Big 12,” Yormark said. “Following detailed discussions with my conference colleagues alongside UConn leadership, we have jointly decided to pause our conversations at this time. We will instead focus our attention and resources to ushering in this new era of college athletics.”
UConn Director of Athletics David Benedict echoed some of Yormark’s comments on Thursday, August 5.
“As you know, it’s been both an exciting and turbulent time in college athletics over the past few years,” Benedict began. “With the emergence of NIL and the transfer portal, the landscape has changed dramatically. Further, conference realignment has significantly blurred the national panorama.”
“Undoubtedly, many of you have followed recent media reports about the Big 12’s renewed interest in UConn as a conference member. It is always our objective to put UConn in the very best position for future success, so we did engage in exploratory dialogue with the Big 12. Ultimately, the Big 12 determined that it will pause on conversations about membership expansion.”
The BYU football game against SMU can be found on ESPN+. Anish Schroff, Andre Ware, and Paul Carcaterra will call the game.
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