FWST: If your Big 12 expansion hopeful falls short, this could be the reason why
BY JIMMY BURCHÂ jburch@star-telegram.com
A person cannot navigate very far on social media sites today without bumping into a statement from a school administrator from a Big 12 expansion hopeful extolling the virtues of his or her institution during the league’s fact-finding/negotiation period before league officials decide how many invitations to extend. NBCSports.com cobbled together a cross-section of responses from seven different schools, each touting its own merits, and still omitted several others that are circulating on various websites.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott even weighed in with a tweet calling Big 12 expansion “a non-starter unless it includes†the University of Houston. No doubt, politicians from other states that include schools with Big 12 hopes and dreams have followed suit.
At some point, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby will hand out the invitations and make a few schools happy. He’ll upset far more than a few. As we count down to a final decision, here is a handy primer for notable hopefuls who wonder what might be working against their school in Big 12 deliberations: