NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – Following rumors a couple of shakeup within the Massive 12 Convention, the College of Oklahoma says it is not going to renew its grant of media rights to the convention after 2025.
Final week, rumors started swirling that the College of Oklahoma and College of Texas are taking a look at choices to affix the highly effective Southeastern Convention.
After listening to of the experiences, the College of Oklahoma launched an announcement saying, “The school athletics panorama is shifting continually. We don’t tackle each nameless rumor.”
On Sunday, the Massive 12 Convention’s Government Committee met with Oklahoma officers in regards to the college’s future.
“The assembly was cordial, and the Government Committee expressed a willingness to debate proposals that will strengthen the Convention and be mutually useful to OU and UT, in addition to the opposite member establishments of the Convention,” Commissioner Bob Bowlsby acknowledged. “I anticipate that we’ll proceed our conversations within the days forward and we look ahead to discussing ideas, concepts and ideas which may be of shared curiosity and impression.”
Someday later, the College of Oklahoma and the College of Texas at Austin launched a joint assertion relating to media rights and the Massive 12 Convention.
“The College of Oklahoma and The College of Texas at Austin notified the Massive 12 Athletic Convention as we speak that they won’t be renewing their grants of media rights following expiration in 2025. Offering discover to the Massive 12 at this level is necessary prematurely of the expiration of the convention’s present media rights settlement. The schools intend to honor their present grant of rights agreements. Nevertheless, each universities will proceed to observe the quickly evolving collegiate athletics panorama as they take into account how greatest to place their athletics applications for the longer term.”
Joint Assertion from the College of Oklahoma and College of Texas at Austin
