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[QUOTE="Storrs South, post: 4016353, member: 7275"]
These comments from the ISU AD during Big 12 expansion 5 years ago are kinda hilarious now:

[I]At 10, we give ourselves a lot more flexibility down the road versus adding maybe members that would only clutter up the process. People say, [URL='http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/10/18/13309192/big-12-expansion-conference-realignment-grant-of-rights-inevitable-death']'In eight years, Texas and Oklahoma are going to bolt.'[/URL] Well, if we added teams and forced it on them, I guarantee they'd bolt. So that's a part of this process that people aren't thinking about.

The Big 12 exists because we have Texas and Oklahoma in the room. If we take Texas and Oklahoma out of the room, we're the Mountain West Conference, and we're getting $3 million [in annual TV revenue, a drastic decrease]. We've got two star players, whether people want to like that or not: Texas and Oklahoma.

Source: [URL='https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/10/19/13329020/big-12-expansion-conference-realignment-iowa-state']Iowa State's AD has some Big 12 real talk[/URL][/I]
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