Big 12  Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said during the league’s spring meetings that the Big 12 was distributing an average of $37.7 million to each school for the 2019-20 school year, just $1.1 million less than the last year.

The Big 12 had a 13-year streak of raising revenues for the schools.

The Big 12 got about $14 million less from the NCAA, which canceled the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and the College World Series. The amount of money in member participation subsidies for conference championships was cut in half, from about $36 million last year to $18 million, after the cancellation of the Big 12 basketball tournaments, as well as baseball, softball and other spring sports.

The Big 12 board approved June 15 as the first day campuses can be open to voluntary workouts for football players, with other athletes to follow in July.

“I’m optimistic that we’ll start the season somewhere around Labor Day,” Bowlsby said. “I also think that we’ll likely have some interruptions. And we’ll have some moments on campuses and even within athletics departments where we have outbreaks and we’ll have to deal with them in real time. So I’m bullish about our opportunity, and more so than I was 30 days ago to answer your question directly. And I hope I’m even more so 30 days henceforth.”