Made it clear they aren’t actively looking to expand. But if they were to expand, he said the most important criteria for them to expand would be access to more fertile recruiting ground and access to a third time zone. He mentioned some conferences base their expansion criteria solely on economics, and that it is important to them, but that isn’t their top priority. As far as the economics, he said what everyone always says — goal isn’t to make more slices of the pie, but make the current slices bigger. Said “chaos in the east is good for us”.

Also said his phone has been “blowing up” since the OU/UT announcement.