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Message: [QUOTE="MountainMan, post: 1804800, member: 7323"] LOL. I get what you are doing. You are arguing about tweets which said which schools got "the interview" and which ones were "left out". I don't have any idea if that stuff is true so I won't speculate on which schools got a rose this time. I have no idea if SMU rally got a final interview or not but I'm sure they were interviewed or had discussion with Big 12 officials at some point in this process. Some schools seem to be more open than others but that may or may not be an indication of what's actually happening behind the scenes. What I do believe is both SMU and Rice were on the expansion lists and made it past the first cut due to politics and likely academics to some degree which seemed to be what the first round cut was about. I'm sure there were lots of favors called in from SMU/Rice boosters to thier Big 12 buddies. This gives those buddies a chance to say we tried but couldn't make it happen but lets still be friends because I tried to scratch your back but those darn ISU/KSU/ETC idiots couldn't be convinced. . Likely the same thing happened with Houston but Houston is the only Texas school with a legitimate chance of getting in the Big 12 so their situation is different. Just how things get done in TX. [/QUOTE]