Big 12 commissioner tells Texas Tech head coach he’d ‘better take care of business’ against Longhorns

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The commissioner of the Big 12 conference is having some fun at the expense of the Texas Longhorns as they prepare for their final season in the Big 12. 

Texas is looking to win its first conference championship since 2009 before heading to the SEC. 

Commissioner Brett Yormark during a Big 12 Tournament game between the Iowa State Cyclones and Kansas Jayhawks on March 10, 2023, at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Don’t count Brett Yormark as one who’s rooting for the Longhorns to win on the way out the door. 

Speaking Wednesday at the Red Raider Club kickoff luncheon in Lubbock, Texas, Yormark had a message for Texas Tech head football coach Joey McGuire. 

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"Coach [McGuire], I'm not going to put any pressure on you, but I'm gonna be in Austin for Thanksgiving. And you'd better take care of business like you did right here in Lubbock last year," Yormark said.

The Nov. 24 game in Austin will be the last regular season Big 12 game for Texas. 

Head coach Joey McGuire of the Texas Tech Red Raiders stands with his players after the West Virginia Mountaineers game at Jones AT&T Stadium on Oct. 22, 2022, in Lubbock, Texas. (John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

The conference announced early in the year an agreement had been reached to allow the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma to leave the conference for the SEC following the conclusion of the 2023-24 athletic year. 

The move by the Longhorns and the Sooners, originally announced in July 2021, was just the beginning of a seismic shift