Big 12 Accuses ESPN of Tampering to Get Member Schools to Leave Conference
@SINow has obtained the cease and desist letter that the Big 12 sent to ESPN.In it, commissioner Bob Bowlsby says that ESPN has reached out to at least one of the eight remaining Big 12 members in an attempt to convince the school to leave in wake of the Texas and OU exit. pic.twitter.com/j50gEBPWBYRumblings had been swirling this week regarding ESPN’s involvement in Oklahoma and Texas’ plan to leave the conference for the SEC in the next few years (the two schools made the first formal step earlier this week when they informed the conference they will not be renewing their grants of media rights when they expire in 2025).