Roc Nation exec Brett Yormark to be new Big 12 commissioner

The Significant 12 designs to go an unconventional route to obtain its next conference commissioner. In accordance to Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated, the conference is finalizing a deal to employ Roc Country govt Brett Yormark.

Yormark has worked with Roc Nation, a talent company launched by rapper Jay- Z, considering the fact that 2019, and previously used virtually 15 several years as CEO of Brooklyn Athletics and Amusement.

In April, the Significant 12 introduced Bob Bowlsby would move down as convention commissioner right after 10 many years. Bowlsby, like lots of meeting commissioners, had a prolonged profession in collegiate leadership roles prior to signing up for the Major 12, including serving as the athletic director for the University of Northern Iowa, College of Iowa, and Stanford University. 

Yormark will be a departure from that norm, which was evidently by layout, as Dellenger claimed Monday that the conference specific outsiders for the placement.

“A bevy of higher-profile athletic directors had been in the mix as effectively as some conference govt personnel members, but the league took a various technique,” Dellenger wrote. “More than the final two times, a tiny group of Significant 12 presidents interviewed a few finalists in Dallas. None of the final candidates at this time get the job done in the university sports activities field.”

A Major 12 football crew has not received a nationwide championship since Oklahoma won the 2001 Orange Bowl. Having said that, the Major 12 received each of the past two men’s basketball titles with Kansas and Baylor profitable the very last two NCAA Tournaments. Baylor received the women’s basketball title in 2019 also.