BIG 12 Expansion Done, For Now?
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it seems like Big 12 expansion is done at least for now. |
| 0:03.7 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Pete Mundo, Heartlandcolleagelessports.com. |
| 0:07.5 | Of course, we cover the Big 12 conference from top to bottom. |
| 0:11.1 | Thanks for joining us on YouTube live on the podcast, on the radio show as well. |
| 0:16.5 | Always appreciate you being here as we get another show, another episode underway at Heartland |
| 0:22.9 | College Sports. |
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| 0:29.6 | The college football season is now just a couple of weeks away. |
| 0:33.8 | Now, before we get to the season, some of the things happening, expansion, I think we're done on the expansion talk for a while. I mean, the season starts in two weeks. So I think we're done, but you never say never, right? But the latest here is Brett Yormark, the Big 12 commissioner. He did some media rounds this week with some of the new newspapers |
| 0:54.5 | in the Big 12, like the Arizona Republic. And he was pretty clear saying right now, we're done. |
| 1:01.1 | Here's the quote from your Mark. He said, we had a vision, we had a strategy, and effectively |
| 1:05.9 | we've been able to execute it. Initially, I wasn't sure if we'd go to 14 or 16. I think 16 was kind of a dream |
| 1:13.3 | scenario candidly. So from our perspective, our focus now is to integrate the four incoming |
| 1:18.0 | schools as quickly as we can, get them comfortable. We feel really good about our future and |
| 1:23.1 | what our membership composition looks like when you look at it in terms of where we were, where we are, |
| 1:29.5 | and where we're going. That's Brett your remark to the Arizona Republic saying right now we're |
| 1:33.7 | done and adding those comments after the fact. And you know what? The Big 12 should be done for now. |
| 1:39.5 | The Big 12 does not need to expand beyond the 16 teams that it has. The big 12 has solidified itself as the |
| 1:47.6 | clear number three conference in the country. There's nothing else the big 12 can do right now |
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