After all, honesty isn't that important is it?
-----------I hate to be pinned down, but if someone were to force me, I’d say ... ... “Could it go longer than (three years)? Yes, it could. Is it desirable to me, to go longer than that? The answer is no.”-----
So not only does he qualify his statement twice, he also basically says don't quote me on this. But hey, lets all pretend he guaranteed that we would be in a P5 conference in three years.
Or better yet, lets wait and see what happens in three years.