Big 12 adds subcommittee to study conference expansion

A four-person subcommittee has been formed to examine expansion of the Big 12 following the pending departure of Oklahoma and Texas for the Southeastern Conference.

The subcommittee is made up of Kirby Hocutt, athletic director at Texas Tech, as well as Iowa State president Wendy Wintersteen, Kansas chancellor Doug Girod and Baylor AD Mack Rhoades.

Former West Virginia athletic director, NCAA executive and XFL commissio