FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With soccer season on the halfway level, now we may be simply clutching at straws.
Arkansas has an off week and the annual Fall World Series is coming to an finish over at Baum-Walker Stadium so we will form of go searching for different stuff.
Enter the SEC enlargement, which was introduced as occurring beginning with the 2025 soccer season, so we’re solely about 2.5 seasons from that taking place.
Razorback followers have an curiosity as a result of each Texas and Oklahoma will probably be on the schedules in lower than three years now.
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark talks with the media throughout the Big 12 Media Day at AT&T Stadium. (Jerome Miron / USA TODAY Sports)
But on the Big 12 Tip-Off this week, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark really made news by staying with the introduced plan.
“They’ve committed themselves in advance of me getting here and they’ve reiterated that commitment,” he advised the Tulsa World, in keeping with a story at College Football HQ on Tuesday.
It’s principally the identical factor SEC commissioner Greg Sankey tells anyone that may ask. Nobody has requested if there are any conversations occurring within the background about transferring that timeline up.
Based on prior historical past, Yormark would in all probability be the final individual to search out out earlier than it went public until he needed to examine it.
For now, although, everyone is sticking to the script.
“My relationship with both Texas and Oklahoma is very, very strong,” Yormark mentioned. “They are full members and we’re looking forward to working with them.”
Longhorns mascot Bevo at Texas’ spring sport in Austin in April. (Aaron E. Martinez / USA TODAY Sports)
Which actually says nothing new. Everybody publicly says they anticipate the Sooners and Longhorns to comply with the 2025 plan.
But there are media rights negotiating conversations occurring now from the Big 12, in keeping with a story by the Associated Press final week.
The Big 12 is in transition because it prepares for Cincinnati, BYU, Houston and Central Florida to affix subsequent 12 months and for Texas and Oklahoma to depart by 2025. The convention is prone to be 14 groups for no less than one season. It presently has 10 colleges.
It does create an fascinating scheduling drawback for the Big 12, particularly with each Texas and OU having already introduced schedules.
“(The conference) is not a free agent,” Yormark advised the AP. “I can’t go out there and talk to an Amazon or an Apple or CBS. But in a world that’s changing, why don’t we explore an early conversation which could, maybe, lead to a negotiation.
“I can inform you that we have had significant conversations for the final three-plus weeks, and we’ll see the place they go.”
Remember that quote if one thing adjustments with that complete script.
“If we will not get to a deal, then the fallback is 16 months from now,” Yormark mentioned.
The Sooner Schooner at Oklahoma’s spring sport in April. (Kevin Jairaj / USA TODAY Sports)
To prevent some calendar calculations, that is the beginning of the 2024 calendar 12 months. Probably, that’s the lead time on these offers.
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Again, though, it could be a cover to negotiations we probably won’t even hear about until somebody does a streaming mini-series a decade or so down the road.
If something changes with league expansion, though, at least we might have an idea when they started talking.
There is a cover story already in place.
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