I guess Bowlsby was honored at a University of Iowa alumni event. A few quotes of note below:
Big 12's Bowlsby on Texas, expansion, conference title games and College Football Playoff
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“I’m not a candidate for the Texas job,” said Bowlsby, 63. “Although I’d have to say that if I’d stayed
at Stanford, it might be a job that would be attractive. It’s a great place. You can be really good at
Texas. There are more Division I football recruits in Florida, Texas and California than the other 47
states combined and basketball is not too far behind. So you can be really good there.
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“I don’t know if there’s anybody out there that really adds value,” Bowlsby said. “Rutgers and
Maryland came in (to the Big Ten). You look at Utah and Colorado (to the Pac-12). Most of the
expansion, the ACC is another good example, most of the expansion has come in the lower half of the league when they come in. Anybody that’s out there for us would have to come in logically the lower half of our league in terms of the prominence of the institution and the amount of value that they bring.
“I think that expansion is probably fairly stable right now. I will say, just as an aside, I don’t think the
whole expansion process was really a source of pride for high education. I think we commoditized the
institutions of higher learning, and I don’t think it was our finest hour. It’s settled down now and will
probably stay settled down.”
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“We don’t want to be forced into having two more just for the sake of adding a championship game,”
Bowlsby said. “It’s among the worst reasons to expand. There are lots of good reasons to expand, but
those are among the worst. So we’ve asked to have it deregulated.
“It’s been approved by the football oversight committee. It’s been approved by the council. It’s out for membership comment right now, and it’ll come back to the football oversight committee. I feel pretty good about the likelihood of it getting through, partly because I think it’s the right thing to do and partly because I’m the chairman of the oversight committee. If I can’t shepherd that one through, I’ve really fallen short.
“We’ll have a decision coming up as to whether we want to have a championship. Because we play a full round-robin in our league already, it’s going to be a rematch of a regular-season game.”
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http://www.thegazette.com/subject/s...e-games-and-college-football-playoff-20150916
Big 12's Bowlsby on Texas, expansion, conference title games and College Football Playoff
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“I’m not a candidate for the Texas job,” said Bowlsby, 63. “Although I’d have to say that if I’d stayed
at Stanford, it might be a job that would be attractive. It’s a great place. You can be really good at
Texas. There are more Division I football recruits in Florida, Texas and California than the other 47
states combined and basketball is not too far behind. So you can be really good there.
***************
“I don’t know if there’s anybody out there that really adds value,” Bowlsby said. “Rutgers and
Maryland came in (to the Big Ten). You look at Utah and Colorado (to the Pac-12). Most of the
expansion, the ACC is another good example, most of the expansion has come in the lower half of the league when they come in. Anybody that’s out there for us would have to come in logically the lower half of our league in terms of the prominence of the institution and the amount of value that they bring.
“I think that expansion is probably fairly stable right now. I will say, just as an aside, I don’t think the
whole expansion process was really a source of pride for high education. I think we commoditized the
institutions of higher learning, and I don’t think it was our finest hour. It’s settled down now and will
probably stay settled down.”
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“We don’t want to be forced into having two more just for the sake of adding a championship game,”
Bowlsby said. “It’s among the worst reasons to expand. There are lots of good reasons to expand, but
those are among the worst. So we’ve asked to have it deregulated.
“It’s been approved by the football oversight committee. It’s been approved by the council. It’s out for membership comment right now, and it’ll come back to the football oversight committee. I feel pretty good about the likelihood of it getting through, partly because I think it’s the right thing to do and partly because I’m the chairman of the oversight committee. If I can’t shepherd that one through, I’ve really fallen short.
“We’ll have a decision coming up as to whether we want to have a championship. Because we play a full round-robin in our league already, it’s going to be a rematch of a regular-season game.”
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http://www.thegazette.com/subject/s...e-games-and-college-football-playoff-20150916
