Normally, commissioners take great pains to remain neutral during conference games. But 2023 isn’t a normal year in the Big 12 with the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners preparing for their departures to the SEC, leaving first-year commissioner Brett Yormark in a position to take a decidedly partisan stance on the regular-season finale for the Longhorns.
Yormark plans to be in Austin for the post-Thanksgiving game between Texas and the Texas Tech Red Raiders, perhaps the last regular-season contest in the near future for the longtime SWC and Big 12 opponents, and had a message for Red Raiders head coach Joey McGuire — “take care of business.