Houston Cougars release statement on no Big 12 expansion

The Houston Cougars released a statement after learning that the Big 12 would not be expanding at this time

The University of Houston is taking the Big 12’s decision to say “thanks but no thanks” to expansion in stride. In a written statement released shortly after the Big 12 voted down expanding the league, UH President and System Chancellor Renu Khator said, in part:

“The Big 12’s decision in no way changes the mission of the University of Houston that began long before there was talk of conference expansion.”

After the usual press release stuff about how great Houston is as a school, Khator ended his portion of the release by saying:

“Our destiny belongs to us.”

Yes, their destiny still belongs to them, but everyone in the complicated universe known as college football can all agree that UH’s destiny would had been brighter if the Big 12 accepted them into their family.

For starters, they would had benefited from playing in a bigger conference and all of the riches that comes with that: national television every week, schools paying you more money for playing them, and upping your street creed by playing the likes of Texas year in and year out.

But sadly, that isn’t to be, at least for now, because the longtime gods of the conference (looking at you, UT) were afraid of sharing the goods with the likes of Houston, who we all can agree field one of the best teams in college football not in a major conference.

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Not only did the Big 12 screw over Houston, who would had been an excellent fit, but they screwed themselves as well. If the Big 12’s mission is to get on par with the SEC, which is the best conference in college football today, they missed out on a golden opportunity to gain ground.

So although the head honchos at UH said all the right things in their press release, it’s hard to imagine that, in reality, they can’t be happy with the Big 12 right now.