After attending Colorado University's Friday game against Stanford at Folsom Field, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said he's impressed with what the Buffs will bring to the conference next summer.
“Since I’ve been in the role as commissioner, I’ve been really impressed by going from campus to campus and the investments that are being made in affording student athletes to be the best version of themselves,” Yormark told BuffZone. “You know, the brick and mortar part of it plays a huge role. This place is breathtaking and the investments they’ve made in the student athletes, not just in football, basketball, but all sports, I think is tremendous. So I’ve been very impressed.”
In his 10 years at CU, athletic director Rick George has put a high priority on everything from football and basketball to women's sports, student-athlete mental health and nutrition.
“It has and what I’ve said to Rick, specifically, is ‘bring us best practices from a conference perspective,’” he said. “We’ve talked a lot about mental health and nutrition and I look forward to leaning on him for best practices so we as a conference can get better. It’s all positive; very, very positive.”
The Big 12 will welcome CU, Arizona, ASU and Utah from the Pac-12 next year.
“I’ve been visiting their campuses and their ADs have been integrated into our ecosystem already, as their presidents have,” Yormark said. “They’ve only got 10 months to transition in, so we’ve got a lot of work to do together but we’re focused not only on the current conference, but where this thing is going in the future and the four-corner schools play a big role.”
