Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark wanted to talk about the league’s upcoming season, not the Brendan Sorsby gambling saga at Texas Tech. Yormark said, “Today is not the time to address that issue. Today is about celebrating the upcoming football season and celebrating our 16 schools.”
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The Big 12 is going international again this season, with another opener in Ireland and then the first-ever college game at iconic Wembley Stadium in London. Yormark announced a multiyear agreement with Monster Energy to be the entitlement partner for conference-controlled Big 12 regular-season football games, as well as men’s and women’s basketball.
Yormark also spoke about the conference “moving ahead as 16 strong,” which includes Texas Tech. The league and its other 15 members were discussing potentially punishing Texas Tech if Sorsby had played this fall for the Red Raiders after the quarterback transferred from Cincinnati, another Big 12 school where he played the past two seasons.
Sorsby won’t play even after being granted a temporary injunction against the NCAA last month that would have allowed him to remain eligible. He later dropped his lawsuit against the NCAA, making him ineligible again, after the NCAA appealed the injunction and the Big 12 filed a still-pending federal complaint in U.S. District Court in Dallas.
Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.
