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Big 12 threatened by Texas Attorney General if league sanctions Texas Tech

June 11, 2026

By Alex Byington, On3: Texas Tech‘s pending battle with its own conference peers took an interesting turn Thursday when the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a formal letter to Big 12 officials threatening legal action if it sanctions the Red Raiders for their support of quarterback Brendan Sorsbyaccording to On3’s Pete Nakos. Paxton’s letter even suggested the state would seek “substantially more than $200 million” from both the Big 12 and its other members for any lawsuit that results from their potential actions.

The letter emerges on the same day the Big 12 executive committee — made up of Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, the chair of its board of directors, Kansas president Doug Girod, and the presidents from Kansas State and BYU — is set to meet to discuss potential options following Monday’s injunction ruling in Lubbock reversing the NCAA’s permanent ban against Sorsby. The full Big 12 Board of Directors is currently scheduled to meet next week to potentially vote on any potential sanctions.

“We are aware that the Big 12 is considering invoking Bylaw 3.6 of the Big 12’s Bylaws to sanction Texas Tech for respecting the Order and continuing its support of Mr. Sorsby as a student-athlete,” Paxton’s letter reads.

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