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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 129473920" data-attributes="member: 1428007">Bowlsby claims here &quot;we do not want to add members&quot;.&nbsp; Yet WVU's Gordon Gee has spoken out in favor of expansion-even to 14 members.&nbsp; Oklahoma's president Boren has spoken out definitively as in favor of expansion.&nbsp; Iowa State's president has spoken in favor of expansion.&nbsp; Kansas State's football coach has clearly spoken in favor of expansion and one might infer he is in contact with that schools leaders on the matter and has their best interest at heart.Bowlsby needs to specify exactly who does not want to expand, because he is speaking for a few, not everyone.As to expansion being dead &quot;until the contracts are up&quot;--the conference can't wait until its contracts are up to think about expansion if they are going to expand.&nbsp; The Pac 12 will have renewed its contracts already, the SEC will be still locked up through 2036, the Big Ten probably as long and the ACC will still have two years remaining on its grant of rights agreement itself--and by the looks of it have participated multiple years in the playoffs.&nbsp; The BIG 12 won't be in a better expansion position then anymore than now--and in reality less so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 129473920, member: 1428007"] Bowlsby claims here "we do not want to add members". Yet WVU's Gordon Gee has spoken out in favor of expansion-even to 14 members. Oklahoma's president Boren has spoken out definitively as in favor of expansion. Iowa State's president has spoken in favor of expansion. Kansas State's football coach has clearly spoken in favor of expansion and one might infer he is in contact with that schools leaders on the matter and has their best interest at heart. Bowlsby needs to specify exactly who does not want to expand, because he is speaking for a few, not everyone. As to expansion being dead "until the contracts are up"--the conference can't wait until its contracts are up to think about expansion if they are going to expand. The Pac 12 will have renewed its contracts already, the SEC will be still locked up through 2036, the Big Ten probably as long and the ACC will still have two years remaining on its grant of rights agreement itself--and by the looks of it have participated multiple years in the playoffs. The BIG 12 won't be in a better expansion position then anymore than now--and in reality less so. [/QUOTE]

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