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Message: [QUOTE="BKarchitect, post: 1793288, member: 7320"] Nobody in this conference is going to fall for some ill-contrived GOR extension with an out for UT after 2024 like they already will have. It'll be an ironclad 20-year extension like the ACC with new media deals or there won't be an extension at all with this round of expansion. The Iowa State president and AD have made this very clear. The northern schools are not going to get pushed into something they don't want. If that means they block expansion entirely, then that's that. Houston as one of two is not workable. Nobody in this conference believes UT wants to be in the same conference with the likes of Houston long-term if all we are getting are some "promises" that it will make Austin happy. UT wants to appease Texas legislators and it'll grease the skids when they flee in 2024 to already have "elevated" Houston - they can say "look, we got Houston promoted, now we are going to leave but you still have 4 Texas schools in the Big 12 so everybody (in Texas) wins!". [/QUOTE]