ESPN Chairman says Oklahoma and Texas won’t move to the SEC til 2025

After a report got here out that Oklahoma and Texas had been planning on transferring to the SEC in 2024, ESPN Chairman James Pitaro mentioned that the 2 faculties will stay the place they’re till 2025.

ESPN owns the SEC Community, and their new deal begins in 2024. Whereas OU and Texas remaining within the Massive 12 till 2025 takes care of the exit price difficulty, that simply appears like too lengthy of a wait if the faculties really feel they’re prepared for SEC athletics.

The Sooners’ present media rights deal received’t expire till after the 2024 season. Contractually, they’ll be within the Massive 12 for at the least two extra years. However contracts will be renegotiated.

Clearly, the person who works for ESPN is aware of higher than I do about what is definitely occurring, however I’ve been saying this for the reason that SEC transfer was introduced: there’s no manner OU and Texas stay within the Massive 12 till 2025.

What else is an ESPN govt going to say a few transfer that may profit his community? He can’t come out and say that the 2 faculties are transferring early when a buyout hasn’t been negotiated up to now.

Within the interim, Brent Venables will get time to arrange the Oklahoma Soccer program for the transfer to the SEC to tangle with the likes of Alabama and Georgia regularly.

As for the opposite sports activities, go searching. They’re prepared.

Baseball is about to play for a nationwide championship. Softball simply received one other nationwide championship. Ladies’s Gymnastics simply received a nationwide championship. The listing goes on.

The ESPN-SEC deal starting in 2024 simply appears all to handy to me. The way in which Oklahoma has been spending cash currently, the transfer needs to be coming quickly.

A 14-team Massive 12 does seem to be enjoyable for a season or two if Pitaro is appropriate and the Sooners and Longhorns keep within the Massive 12 till 2025.

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