So I’d say it’s been a pretty eventful week. The Big 12 confirmed that expansion is dead and schools of the likes of BYU, Cincinnati and Houston were severely disappointed at the decision. Other schools that were being considered were Air Force, UCF, Colorado State, UConn, Rice (really?), South Florida, SMU, Temple and Tulane.
I think my favorite quote of the Big 12’s press conference on Monday was when University of Oklahoma president David Boren mentioned that any school’s time put into making presentations for admittance to the conference was ‘not wasted effort’.