Sources: Big 12 vote to accept Colorado passes

• Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 26, 2023, 05:21 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS– The Big 12’s presidents and chancellors voted unanimously on a conference call to accept Colorado as a new member on Wednesday night, sources informed ESPN.The vote marks

  among the final staying actions to be finished for Colorado to leave the Pac-12 for the Big 12, a move that’s hurtling toward being completed on Thursday.Colorado still has actually not formally made an application for Huge 12 membership, another of the final formal steps staying for it to sign up with the league. However Wednesday night’s Big 12 vote marks an essential action towards it joining the conference, a relocation that’s increasingly becoming an inevitability.A Colorado departure from the Pac-12 would come after the 2023-24 season and accompany completion of the Pac-12 television deal. That would mean that Colorado would not need to pay any exit charge to the league.Colorado is expected to formally apply for subscription on Thursday, the very same day that the school’s Board of Regents is holding a”unique board conference “that sources say includes a vote on the relocation to the Huge 12. Sources anticipate the last actions to be handled Thursday and an offer to be formalized.Editor’s Picks 1 Associated The Big 12 vote comes in the wake of Colorado’s board holding an executive board session on Wednesday

to go over

the potential relocation, according to sources. When that was completed, the corresponding relocation for a public conference to hold a possible vote on the league change came minutes after.The school revealed a “unique board meeting” and the program is noted as”Action Item: Athletics Operations.” A board spokesperson told ESPN that an

action product shows a vote will take place.In the Colorado system, a public meeting is needed for a vote on a matter such as switching conferences. A board spokesperson verified that Thursday’s”

unique board meeting”is public.Colorado’s future with the Pac-12 has actually remained in flux for months in the middle of the conference’s lengthy television contract negotiations. Colorado also has had the most extensive meetings with the Huge 12, as sources informed ESPN that the 2 celebrations met in Might in person to talk about a potential move.The back-to-back board conferences by Colorado also align with another indication for a potential move. And they line up with Colorado’s basic unhappiness with the Pac-12, which stretches back to the tenure of previous commissioner Larry Scott.When ESPN asked Colorado athletic director Rick George today about a possible conference choice, he declined remark. He did reveal frustration at the Pac-12’s failure to create a tv deal, saying he had no conference set up with the league this week

.”We are where we are,”George informed ESPN.”We’ve simply got to figure it out. “The Colorado board representative told ESPN:”There will be no additional conversation until the public meeting.”That conference might end up largely as a procedure. The essential step staying for Colorado will be to formally use to

the Big 12, which is normally made with a brief e-mail. Public applications to a league are often thought about procedures after all votes have actually been secured.This prospective relocation comes amid the background of the Pac-12’s sluggish rate towards landing a tv offer. Conference members have collectively waited on a television number from commissioner George Kliavkoff.A source informed ESPN’s Heather Dinich that the Pac-12 presidents have actually still not been presented with a media deal, a returning style over the previous

couple of months. Colorado chancellor Phil DiStefano told the Denver Post last week that he was expecting numbers in a meeting prior to the Pac-12’s media day last week. Those never materialized.The possible move marks a return for Colorado to the Big 12, which it was

a member of from 1996 to 2010. Colorado left for the Pac-12 in 2011 and has actually had no bowl wins and just 2 winning football seasons given that then.George hustled out of Pac-12 media day without commenting last week, sustaining suspicions of Colorado’s possible move. When asked by ESPN on Tuesday why he would not reveal solidarity with the Pac-12 like his peers, George said:”It’s just who I am.

When I have something to say, I’ll state it. “