Bob Bowlsby said Tuesday that he will step away from his role as Big 12 commissioner later this year after a decade in that job. BYU
Brigham Young University athletic director Tom Holmoe, right, is joined remotely by Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, right for the announcement of BYU's acceptance into the Big 12 conference at a press conference in Provo, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. On Tuesday, Bowslby announced he would be stepping away from his position later this year.Bob Bowlsby said Tuesday that he will step away from his role as Big 12 commissioner later this year after a decade in that job.
“After more than 40 years of serving in leadership roles in intercollegiate athletics, including the last 10 with the Big 12, and given the major issues that college sports in general and the Big 12 specifically will address in the next several years, I have reached a natural transition point in my tenure as commissioner, as well as in my career,” Bowlsby said in a statement.
“We have attempted to add the very best — and you can put it in a recruiting [context], the very best athletes that we possibly could,”“That certainly is emblematic of BYU and the history and success that the university has had and that the athletics program has had. In adding four members that we have, we will gain as much as we could possibly gain on the football field. We will arguably be the best basketball conference in the country.
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