Bob Bowlsby helped add BYU, Houston, Cincinnati and UCF to stabilize the conference in the wake of Texas’ and Oklahoma’s departures.
Bowlsby helped add BYU, Houston, Cincinnati and UCF to stabilize the conference in the wake of Texas’ and Oklahoma’s departures.
Less than a year ago, it looked bleak for Bowlsby. Frankly, it looked bleak for the Big 12. On Bowlsby’s ledger, he had lost two of the conference’s biggest brands to the SEC. And that could have been the end of it. Bowlsby, 70, riding off into the sunset screaming about how big money, big television contracts, ruined college football. How ESPN and the SEC’s greed got the best of the once-great Big 12.
“Are there some things that probably feel a little left undone? Yeah, there are always those things,” Bowlsby said. “Fact is, there aren’t many people in my business who go out on their own terms. I’m about as close to it as you’re going to find.”
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