Big 12 Media Days College Featured Football 

Five questions answered during Big 12’s Media Days

Now that Big 12 head coaches and some of their players wrapped up the two-day event known as Media Days July 13-14, it’s time to review what was learned. Headed into the event, I shared my five questions in the hopes of getting answers. Here’s what is known: Television contracts and the possibility of a conference network. So much of this comes down to the exit and exit fees of Oklahoma and Texas moving to the SEC. The good news is there appears to be a timeline thanks to UCLA…

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Texas Tech’s McGuire remains energetic, confident in his Red Raiders

Texas Tech head football coach Joey McGuire brought the same energy to Big 12 Media Days July 14 that he had when he visited the Rudy Davalos Horseshoe Bay Sports Club weeks earlier. McGuire appeared before the Big 12 press corps and exhibited why alumni, boosters and fans are investing $200 million in the football facility, a project that is expected to begin after the Red Raiders’ final regular season game in 2022, which is against Oklahoma Nov. 26. “I thought I knew our alumni base,” he said. “This alumni…

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New Big 12 commissioner gives his vision of the conference

Growth. That sums up new Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark’s first press conference in addressing reporters at Media Days July 12. Yormark, who is finishing his final weeks as the co-CEO of Roc Nation, was asked every question pertaining to college sports, including Name, Image and Likeness, conference expansion, college football playoffs and getting a new contract with television partners for the conference. “I’m confident in my background and that it’s suited for this work,” he said. “I’ll carry out the vision of our member institutions. We must use our…

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