Big 12 commish Brett Yormark: 'Cody Campbell does not run the Big 12'

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark snapped back at Cody Campbell , saying the chairman of the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents "does not run the Big 12" after Campbell complained publicly about the conference and its television partners possibly moving this year's Texas Tech football game against Houston to a Friday night. Texas Tech was one of only three Big 12 teams that didn't play a regular-season game on a Friday night last year. Campbell says that's going to happen this coming season, and he doesn't like it.

Campbell posted this week on social media that the Big 12 and FOX Sports are looking to move the Texas Tech home game against Houston from Sept. 19, the Saturday on which it's currently slotted, to Sept. 18.

He began his objection by writing that "Friday Night Lights are sacred in the Great State of Texas! " He also took Yormark to task. "I heard about it through the (Tech football) staff up here and our administration that it was being discussed," Campbell told the Avalanche-Journal on Tuesday, March 31.

"They (TV partners) have the draft or whatever, and the conference doesn't want to really acknowledge it, but they do have an ability to influence those decisions. They just chose not to because they were chasing ratings — which I do understand on one hand, but on the other hand, high school football is important in the state of Texas. "We've got a road game the week before.