OSU officials offer statements on Big 12 expansion decision

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STILLWATER, Okla. — Extending the welcome, Oklahoma State style. Several OSU officials gave their statements connected the Big 12 extending invitations to 4 schools to articulation the conference.

Here's what's been said truthful far:

President Kayse Shrum

The university's president extended a idiosyncratic invited to the "four respected universities with awesome diversion traditions" to the conference.

Her connection goes:

I americium enthusiastic astir the aboriginal of Oklahoma State University athletics and invited Brigham Young University, University of Central Florida, University of Houston, and the University of Cincinnati. The caller Big 12 creates an awesome geographical footprint, and I admit the persistence, cooperation, and collaboration among my Big 12 colleagues and the Big 12 Conference office. In this process, I person talked with galore presidents, diversion directors and assemblage sports leaders crossed the country. I enjoyed the enactment and valued the advice. We person made galore caller friends, and I look guardant to gathering these relationships. The enactment of our diversion director, Chad Weiberg, has been invaluable connected galore fronts. I americium arrogant to enactment alongside Chad arsenic we are some passionate astir our alma mater, our state’s land-grant university, Oklahoma State.

Athletic Director Chad Weiberg

Weiberg extended his invited by highlighting the caller aboriginal athletes successful the league look with the caller schools.

"The Big 12 volition stay a nationally beardown league that volition proceed to supply existent and aboriginal OSU student-athletes the accidental to vie for championships astatine the highest level," says Weiberg.

Cowboy shot manager Mike Gundy

Not agelong aft the quality broke, Mike Gundy was acceptable to stock his thoughts. OSU Football's Twitter relationship tweeted his statement, arsenic follows:

The champion of some worlds. #LetsRide I #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/pcaMwDzAma

— OSU Cowboy Football (@CowboyFB) September 10, 2021

Cowboy men’s hoops manager Mike Boynton

Last but not least, Coach Boynton extended his invited and believes the schools volition adhd a caller thrust and heighten competitiveness among the athletes.

"I look guardant to the aboriginal of Big 12 Basketball. I’m thankful for the enactment wrong the league for moving diligently implicit the past fewer months to presumption the league for aboriginal success, " says Boynton. "I person large respect for each schoolhouse and cognize the occurrence that they’ve each had connected a nationalist level."

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