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<blockquote data-quote="geezer" data-source="post: 2259289" data-attributes="member: 71765"><p><em>During a Saturday news conference at Boone Pickens Stadium, Oklahoma State donor T. Boone Pickens identified Houston and SMU as his favorite candidates for Big 12 Conference expansion.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>“If I had my choices, the two I would prefer would be Houston and SMU,” Pickens said. “I’d rather take a Texas team over BYU and Cincinnati. I’m an Oklahoma guy living in Texas. You know that. But I’ve lived in Texas longer than I have in Oklahoma. I do live in Dallas, and I have a granddaughter on the equestrian team at SMU. My daughter graduated from SMU.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>“(SMU President) Gerald Turner called me and (asked) if I would support him (with Big 12 officials). I said, ‘Sure.’ SMU is going to have (quality) football again. They’re going to be like TCU. TCU got serious, and SMU is going to do the same thing. BYU – do you know what it costs to send our teams out there? It’s a long way. BYU is a great school, but I’d rather have SMU than BYU.”</em></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/bill-haisten-t-boone-pickens-picks-for-big-expansion-houston/article_445d5902-322c-53c2-a5b1-e0183b099343.html" target="_blank">http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/bill-haisten-t-boone-pickens-picks-for-big-expansion-houston/article_445d5902-322c-53c2-a5b1-e0183b099343.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="geezer, post: 2259289, member: 71765"] [I]During a Saturday news conference at Boone Pickens Stadium, Oklahoma State donor T. Boone Pickens identified Houston and SMU as his favorite candidates for Big 12 Conference expansion.[/I] [I]“If I had my choices, the two I would prefer would be Houston and SMU,” Pickens said. “I’d rather take a Texas team over BYU and Cincinnati. I’m an Oklahoma guy living in Texas. You know that. But I’ve lived in Texas longer than I have in Oklahoma. I do live in Dallas, and I have a granddaughter on the equestrian team at SMU. My daughter graduated from SMU.[/I] [I]“(SMU President) Gerald Turner called me and (asked) if I would support him (with Big 12 officials). I said, ‘Sure.’ SMU is going to have (quality) football again. They’re going to be like TCU. TCU got serious, and SMU is going to do the same thing. BYU – do you know what it costs to send our teams out there? It’s a long way. BYU is a great school, but I’d rather have SMU than BYU.”[/I] [URL="http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/bill-haisten-t-boone-pickens-picks-for-big-expansion-houston/article_445d5902-322c-53c2-a5b1-e0183b099343.html"]http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/bill-haisten-t-boone-pickens-picks-for-big-expansion-houston/article_445d5902-322c-53c2-a5b1-e0183b099343.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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