The Big 12 board of directors has agreed to a contract extension for conference commissioner Brett Yormark, sources briefed confirmed to The Athletic on Tuesday.
The three-year extension will run through 2030 and extends the original five-year contract Yormark signed when he was hired by the Big 12 in 2022.
Yormark, who took over for the retiring Bob Bowlsby, has had a busy few years in charge of the conference, which saw Texas and Oklahoma announce their departures for the SEC in 2021. Yormark took over during the transition of BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF, schools Bowlsby added in the wake of the Texas and Oklahoma decisions. Yormark also famously beat the Pac-12 to market in signing a new television rights contract with Fox and ESPN in October 2022. This precipitated the collapse of the Pac-12, with Yormark eventually leading the charge to add the Four Corner schools in 2023: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah.
Those moves stabilized the Big 12 amid the most recent wave of conference realignment, underscoring Yormark’s ambitions to establish a conference he has consistently described as “open for business.”
“Since Brett took leadership of the Big 12 three years ago, he has been instrumental in guiding the Big 12’s expansion to include new member schools,…
