ESPN: Big 12 coaches express support for current conference format
Jake TrotterESPN Staff Writer
Over the next month, the possibilities of expansion and adding a championship game figure to be hot topics in the Big 12. The league’s football coaches and athletic directors will be meeting in Phoenix in early May. Then later in the month, the conference’s ADs and presidents will congregate in Irving, Texas.
Tuesday, the Big 12 held its annual spring teleconference between its football coaches and reporters, giving ESPN.com the opportunity to take the temperature of where the league’s coaches stand on these looming issues going into May.
And the majority of head coaches expressed support for the current model the Big 12 uses, which includes a round-robin schedule and no championship game.
“I like the way the system is set up right now,” said Texas coach Charlie Strong, who pointed out that Oklahoma made the CFP out of the current Big 12 format last season. “I’m comfortable with where it is.”
Strong was not alone among Big 12 coaches.
TCU’s Gary Patterson and West Virginia’s Dana Holgorsen agreed. …