The Big 12 Conference and its media partners are exploring avenues to modernize football broadcasts, CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd confirms. Live in-game interviews, expanded locker room access and coaches wearing microphones were concepts discussed during meetings between Big 12 football coaches and administrators during spring meetings in Scottsdale, Arizona.
“Just being a fan of golf, being a fan of other sports — basketball — when I see that there, that engages me,” said Baylor coach Dave Aranda. “Not knowing all the details of this particular matchup or the importance of this game, when you are brought into the inside like that, it connects those dots.”
The report comes days after sources confirmed to CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd that the Big 12 is eyeing a multi-year deal to hold football and both men’s and women’s basketball games in Mexico as soon as 2024. Both developments fall under a larger first-year plan under commissioner Brett Yormark to bolster the conference. Yormark has already secured a six-year extension through 2031 for the Big 12’s media rights deal with ESPN and Fox Sports.
“He [Yormark] is encouraging that,” said Houston coach Dana Holgorsen. “Fox and ESPN is really encouraging that….
