http://sportsradiointerviews.com/20...h-and-colorado-instead-of-a-super-conference/
On how close we came to a super conference explosion in college sports:
“Things were actually moving along at a fairly orderly pace, really until the Big 12 issued an ultimatum to their schools and basically gave them a week to come back and tell them are you in or your out. That created a lot of harried discussions between the Big Ten and Missouri and Nebraska. And that’s when we moved on Colorado because, under any circumstances, whether the super conference was going to happen or not, we wanted to preserve this option which is the one we have today, which is Colorado and Utah. This was always in our focus – never wanted to lose sight of that even though we were working on parallel tracks. The other thing came very close.”