Brett Yormark announces Big 12 will distribute $440 million among 10 conference teams, including Texas, Oklahoma

One of the driving factors around the conversations of conference realignment is, naturally, money. Every school and every program wants a reasonable share of the action from what the conference generates in a year. That’s why, considering the state of the Big 12, its universities have to be pleased with the latest figure that Commissioner Brett Yormark shared.

Per Max Olson at The Athletic, Yormark announced at the Big 12 Spring Meetings that the league would be distributing an estimate $440 million to their schools. That includes all ten programs which, notably, feature the SEC-bound brands of Texas and Oklahoma.

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark announces the conference is distributing an estimated $440 million to its membership for 2022-23.

— Max Olson (@max_olson) June 2, 2023

The Big 12 finished last season with ten teams. Then, next season, they’ll be up to 14 with the additions of BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF. The conference will then drop back to 12 next summer once the Longhorns and Sooners are officially part of the SEC.

Again, money and value is at the root of all of these talks. Programs want to go where they can get the most sizable share of the pie relative to the other teams in the conference. With that in mind, the current and future members of the Big 12 have to be relatively pleased with what Yormark had to say about what they generated over the last school year.

Finebaum addresses whether the ACC or Big 12 is in a better spot

Paul Finebaum claimed the Big 12 is in a better spot than the ACC as it currently stands in college football and expansion.

With realignment all the rage, Finebaum pointed towards the Big 12’s recent moves despite losing Oklahoma and Texas. Meanwhile, in the ACC, it looks like teams are trying to leave.

Finebaum joined McElroy and Cubelic and put the Big 12 over the ACC going into the fall.

“I believe it’s the Big 12 because the Big 12 is ascending, Greg,” Finebaum said. “The Big 12 looks like it made a very good move with the four schools that they got. I mean, we may have looked at it on the day it happened and go, ‘Well that’s not exactly Southern Cal and UCLA and Oklahoma and Texas’. But they’re all quality in their own way. So the Big 12 still seems to be desirous. I mean you mentioned Rick George from Colorado. That might not be the end of it. Who’s trying to get in the ACC today? Nobody. Who’s trying to get out? Everybody.”