Sources: Big 12 seeks to add another, get to 14

• Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterJul 28, 2023, 02:33 PM ET

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The Big 12 is interested in adding another school, which would ultimately bring the conference membership to 14 groups after Oklahoma and Texas leave for the SEC in 2024, numerous Huge 12 sources informed ESPN.The Big 12

athletic directors met commissioner Brett Yormark on Friday early morning, one day after Colorado announced it would leave the Pac-12 and sign up with the Huge 12 following the 2023-24 season.

“Fourteen appears to be our finest number,” a source informed ESPN. “Now that we’re at 13, who’s going to be the first to make a relocation to begin having a conversation with us was the general discussion today. We discussed a great deal of various schools, however it’s more about, ‘Hey, we’ve got room for one more and who wants to be the first to actually wish to be a part of the Huge 12 now and join us?'”

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With Big 12 co-founders OU and Texas playing their last season in the league, the Huge 12 has added Cincinnati, Houston, BYU and UCF for this season.As uncertainty

continues to loom over the Pac-12, which will decrease to nine members, sources have actually shown that Arizona has stimulated interest within the Big 12. Arizona president Bobby Robbins, however, has formerly said publicly that he wanted to see the Pac-12’s brand-new media deal prior to making any monumental choices.

“Once we have that,” he stated on June 7, “we have degrees of liberty to make educated decisions.”

Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff said recently at the league’s media day in Las Vegas that he was positive the media deal would be carried out in the near future. Kliavkoff stated getting the right deal has actually been more important to the Pac-12 presidents and chancellors than “getting the expeditious one.”

In June, following Huge 12 spring conferences in West Virginia, a source told ESPN that UConn and Gonzaga were “definitely spoken about” as possible members, however a 14-team league would be focused on a school that would also include value with its football program, instead of a basketball-only addition.That does not rule out UConn, which has actually made considerable strides under coach Jim Mora, and would add to the league’s strong basketball narrative Yormark has touted.The question is whether the Pac-12’s remaining members have

the perseverance to continue to wait on the media offer, or whether others will”be the very first to make a relocation. “