Brett Yormark, who took over as the new Big 12 commissioner on Aug. 1, visited the UH campus on Monday as part of what he described as his “listening and learning tour” to the conference’s current and future institutions.
Here are some of the key takeaways from Yormark’s visit to UH:
Further Big 12 expansion?
With the additions of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC and UCLA and USC to the Big Ten, the two conferences which are widely considered the most dominant is college athletics continue to grow stronger.
This begs the question of if the Big 12 needs to further expand, even with UH, BYU, Cincinnati and UCF set to join the conference on July 1, 2023.