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WATCH: Big 12 Deputy Commissioner Takes Shots at Texas, Oklahoma

ARLINGTON, TX — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark on Wednesday paid compliments to Texas and Oklahoma at those schools' final Big 12 Media Day. Big 12 deputy
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WATCH: Big 12 Deputy Commissioner Takes Shots at Texas, Oklahoma
WATCH: Big 12 Deputy Commissioner Takes Shots at Texas, Oklahoma

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ARLINGTON, TX — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark on Wednesday paid compliments to Texas and Oklahoma at those schools' final Big 12 Media Day.

Big 12 deputy commissioner Tim Weiser on Thursday did not.

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During a radio segment with Kansas City Sports Network, Weiser offered some controversial thoughts on why the Longhorns and Sooners decided to leave for the SEC. Watch the video here:

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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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