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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 129493599" data-attributes="member: 1428007">Here is essentially Borens entire interview- major details here:Excerpt:<a href="http://ads.bhmedianetwork.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/ou/470313314/BottomLeft/default/empty.gif/726d556c474661713372414142515967?x"><img src="http://imagec18.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/default/empty.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Boren, along with Baylor’s Ken Starr and West Virginia’s Gordon Gee, is part of the Big 12’s expansion committee. Their job includes studying potential candidates if the opportunity to expand arises.Boren: “Not every school in America is available. They’re already in other Power 5 conferences and so on. There are some other schools around the country that are not in Power 5 conferences that have not given grants of rights that are fairly attractive. We’re doing in-depth looks at each one of them to get all the data. What’s their fan base? What economic impact would they be? If we added them, would it dilute the soup or would it make the soup thicker, so to speak, for all the remaining members of the conference?”Even before Boren’s comments about expansion to the Tulsa World two weeks earlier, candidates were politicking to join the Big 12.Boren: “Candidates have been politicking for three, four, five or six years. I get binders from other presidents I know, saying I want you to see what we’re doing athletically. I want you to see what we’re doing in academics and research. We’d be such a great fit with the Big 12. We definitely have schools that are constantly lobbying us. At one time, Louisville was a prime opportunity. I was all for it. But there weren’t the votes there to do it at the time. So they went elsewhere. “However, Boren would not list any names. When asked if there were schools no one was talking about that could emerge, he said reporters probably were already speculating on the right six or seven schools.Boren: “There are a lot of schools. The Big 12, for everything I’ve said about wanting to strengthen it and prove its long-range effectiveness and long-term effectiveness, the Big 12 is a very attractive conference. There are a lot of schools that want to be in the Big 12 that are in other conferences and other circumstances."<a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/ousportsextra/ou-president-david-boren-candidly-talks-big-expansion-league-s/article_58753a16-e88b-53be-85ed-fe25feee4577.html">http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/ousportsextra/ou-president-david-boren-candidly-talks-big-expansion-league-s/article_58753a16-e88b-53be-85ed-fe25feee4577.html</a></blockquote>

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