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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charleston Mountie" data-source="post: 129493310" data-attributes="member: 1427666">You are 100% on target here. Going into the meeting it has to be reported that there is no vote planned. If they admit that they will vote and then nothing comes of it, that causes damage to the conference, even if the vote is narrowly defeated for passage. Politically, it must be no vote is planned, they go into the meeting, knock heads and swish drinks, smile and pretend to be open minded on the issue and give the appearance that they are each debating the topic from the point of neutrality.Most schools will not vote positively for a hypothetical expansion to 12. They will need to know who the candidates are - those 6-7 viable institutions - and then they can vote. If it fails, they will discuss why and may hold a second vote after the votes form around a smaller number of candidates. All of these guys are already prepped for this meeting, knowing who those 6-7 are and have they stance already thought out.If the informal is close they will haggle, if not we come back in a year and do it again. I suspect it is sitting at 5 for, 2 against and three in the middle. Texas and TCU are against. Baylor, Kansas and Texas Tech undecided. Everyone else is for it. Just my read.I suspect that we hear that they have decided to expand and they will leave the issue of the network on the table for now. The 2017 year will see the new schools on the schedule and a CCG put into place. That will likely be a compromise Texas can live with and frankly, one that is better for WVU. WVU likely gets more from the current Tier 3 than it would in a pro rata network pay schedule.</blockquote>

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