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Feb 6, 2016
6:26:46pm
Gustav All-American
John Hoover (Tulsa World): "Big 12 CEOs silence rogue voices, including Boren"
Not a ton of new info except that it sounds like Boren won't be making any more public comments for a while:

IRVING, Texas — Big 12 Conference leadership saw University of Oklahoma President David Boren’s comments, felt them, and now has reacted to them.

On Friday at league headquarters, commissioner Bob Bowlsby and chairman of the board of directors Kirk Schulz of Kansas State expressed a new league directive — er, agreement — that no school CEO will express his views on Big 12 topics like expansion.

When the presidents and chancellors meeting adjourned, rather than stick around and politic for expansion to 12 members, a Big 12 network and a conference championship game, Boren got in his car and headed back to Norman.


Have to wonder what he was thinking about -- or what calls he was making -- on the road home.

Regarding timing:


“We’re open to the idea of looking at the number of schools in our league, a championship game and what a conference network might look like,” Schulz acknowledged. “… We want there to be a 10-0 vote and all institutions to say, ‘We think this is best for us.’ It takes awhile to get there.”

It may take longer than Big 12 fans want. Bowlsby said Thursday the league’s spring meetings May 31-June 3 in Dallas are a “stake in the ground” for some of the big decisions, but amended that on Friday.

“We’re four months out, and I hesitate to forecast that right now,” he said. “This thing has a lot of moving parts, and lots of conversations need to take place.”


http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/johnehoover/john-e-hoover-big-ceos-silence-rogue-voices-including-boren/article_d3eae69e-f78b-5077-a465-7d2a5753319e.html
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