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Report: Big 12 Media Days Go Virtual in 2020

According to a tweet from Dallas Morning News Big 12 reporter Chuck Carlton, coaches agreed Wednesday to stage this year's Media Days virtually
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Report: Big 12 Media Days Go Virtual in 2020
Report: Big 12 Media Days Go Virtual in 2020

Big 12 Media Days — the official start of the college football season every summer — are the latest casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Chuck Carlton of the Dallas Morning News posted a tweet Wednesday that league coaches and athletic directors decided to stage this year’s event virtually rather than in person.

Senior associate commissioner for communications Bob Burda confirmed Carlton's report in a text message to SI Sooners and said the dates (July 20-21) will remain the same.

"Working on (the) format," Burda said. " ... Teams represented by head coach at a minimum."

Media Days this year were scheduled again at AT&T Stadium. Additional details will be forthcoming.

"Will have a better sense about players (attending) as it draw nearer," Burda said.

More than 500 media attended last year's event, Carlton reported.

"Given the uncertainty around the current environment and how much longer it’s going to last and with attendees having to make travel plans,” Burda told Carlton, “it didn’t seem prudent for a traditional media day with a mass person gathering.”

SI Sooners will have more on this story as it develops.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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