Cody Campbell encourages Oklahoma to ‘come home’ to Big 12 amid dispute with SEC over Ole Miss game
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Cody Campbell is a billionaire Texas Tech booster, a prideful, high-profile cheerleader of sorts for a Big 12 school in Lubbock, Texas.
And the 45-year-old Lubbock native had a message on Saturday for Oklahoma — come on back to the Big 12, the conference you left to join the SEC in 2024.
Amid the Sooners’ dispute with the SEC over Saturday’s scheduled home football game against Ole Miss being moved to Sunday at 1 p.m. ET because of the FAA nationwide ground stop on Friday night, Campbell was just being inviting in asking Oklahoma to return to its Big 12 roots.
To that effort by Campbell, Sooners first-year athletic director Roger Denny went on a late-night rant about the Ole Miss game being pushed back 1 day to Sunday in Norman. With the Rebels being unable to travel to Norman on Friday night, the decision was made by the SEC office, which declined comment.
But Denny didn’t decline comment, that’s for sure, and the new athletic director who took over for longtime OU AD Joe Castiglione had a message waiting from Campbell to return to the Big 12, where Campbell’s beloved Red Raiders reside.
“Let us know when you’re ready to come home,” wrote Campbell on his social media account on Saturday afternoon, including his message with that late Friday night rant posted by Denny about the Ole Miss game being pushed back to Sunday.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
