G-M: Do you see the league revisiting expansion any time soon?
BOWLSBY: We have to be constantly vigilant of the landscape, but I wouldn’t call consideration of expansion a priority at this point.
G-M: Can you could pinpoint one reason why the league didn’t expand? Was there pressure from your network partners not to do so?
BOWLSBY: There’s not a short answer to that. We went through a long process of analyzing a lot of data. Essentially, when it came down to it, there wasn’t an institution or group of institutions that had the requisite votes to be elected to membership. It requires a super majority of eight out of 10. Although there weren’t any votes taken, it was apparent there wasn’t an institution that had the requisite votes. For each of our 10 members it was an individual decision. They probably came to those in different ways.