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Message: [QUOTE="TheCatsLair, post: 4687290, member: 12437"] You're a thousand percent wrong, TV wanted Cincinnati, BYU, Houston and UCF. UConn was the one viewed similarly to SDSU while Cincinnati and UCF had Top 25 football programs which is what Fox and ESPN wanted. Yormark would have gone along with TV and the Big 12 leadership but even more than that Yormark would have seen that those four were the best non-P5 programs available. From a geographical standpoint the Big 12 leadership would have never have gone with BYU and UConn. I respect UConn but they were not going to crack the Top 4 in Big 12 expansion. There's a reason why he hasn't invited UConn as of now when given the chance. On a side note, BYU and Cincinnati were the initial top options for the Big 12. And UCF and Houston skyrocketed into the mix. UConn and BYU would not have gotten the Big 12 a 2.28 billion dollar deal. Adding BYU and UConn would have left the Big 12 in the same shape that the Pac-12 is currently in. [/QUOTE]