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 Sorsby, according 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.
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