FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark wanted to speech Tuesday astir the league’s upcoming season, not the Brendan Sorsby gambling saga astatine Texas Tech that led to a batch of ineligible wrangling and a since-dismissed tribunal bid that had sent shockwaves done assemblage sports.
Even though that was the archetypal happening Yormark was asked astir aft his opening remarks astatine Big 12 shot media days.
“I admit the question. I admit different questions that are astir apt going to travel distant today. Today is not the clip to code that issue,” Yormark answered. “Today is astir celebrating the upcoming shot play and celebrating our 16 schools.”
Yormark aboriginal spoke astir the league “moving up arsenic 16 strong.”
That would see Texas Tech, which the league and its different 15 members were discussing perchance punishing if Sorsby had so played this autumn for the Red Raiders aft the backmost transferred from Cincinnati, different Big 12 schoolhouse wherever helium played the past 2 seasons.
Sorsby won’t play adjacent aft being granted a impermanent injunction against the NCAA past period that would person allowed him to stay eligible adjacent aft helium acknowledged making thousands of impermissible bets worthy astatine slightest $90,000 connected assemblage and pro sports. Those see immoderate bets connected his ain squad erstwhile helium was a freshman astatine Indiana successful 2022, which successful past cases had led to players being banned from playing.
Sorsby aboriginal dropped his lawsuit against the NCAA, making him ineligible again, aft the NCAA appealed the injunction and the Big 12 filed a still-pending national ailment successful U.S. District Court successful Dallas. The league was trying to sphere its quality to usage the league’s bylaws for imaginable sanctions against Texas Tech had Sorsby played this season.
One newsman asked Yormark wherefore Texas Tech fans should judge comments astir the league moving up arsenic one. The newsman mentioned that the Big 12 past twelvemonth targeted the school’s tortilla-throwing tradition — passing the measurement connected a 15-1 ballot — portion Oklahoma State has an artificial sound exemption for students to bang paddles against the stadium pads on the sideline. He besides mentioned Cincinnati, Sorsby’s erstwhile school.
Yormark walked crossed the stage, past asked the newsman to basal up and repetition his question.
“I said we’re going guardant arsenic 16 strong, and that’s my reply to your question,” Yormark past answered.
Monster partner
Yormark announced a multiyear statement with Monster Energy to beryllium the entitlement spouse for conference-controlled Big 12 regular-season shot games, arsenic good arsenic men’s and women’s basketball.
Yormark said the concern with the planetary vigor portion marque is “built connected the close marque and civilization alignment. ... (and) volition instrumentality this league to places it has not been before.”
It volition see a co-branded Monster Energy and Big 12 logo being featured connected shot and hoops jerseys, fields and courts, with further integration crossed league integer and societal media channels. The company’s archetypal concern successful assemblage athletics began past autumn erstwhile the marque became the conference’s authoritative vigor drink.
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