"New members that also could include BYU or Colorado State, both of whom have shown great interest in leaving their present conferences to join a bigger, stronger Big 12."

http://www.theintelligencer.net/sports/top-sports/2016/07/holgosen-wvu%E2%80%88in-favor-of-big-12-expansion/

I guess they never got the message that we already left the MWC in Wheeling. Or maybe they consider Independent as a conference.