Not necessarily news, but interesting nonetheless. This selection from Gordon Gee’s comments come around the 11:38 mark, right after he says there’s no way the Big Ten would take Cincinnati or Pitt. (SI’s Andy Staples has excerpts right before and after. When you read this, Gee calls it Missou-ruh.)
“One of the problems we face is that Iowa has tremendous pressure about Iowa State. We’re not interested in Iowa State. We are interested in Missouri and Kansas eventually, I think. … I would see potentially Missouri and Kansas. By the way it goes without saying this all has to be speculation that remains right here.”
Mike Hlas has some more observations.
Iowa State didn’t need another reason to be disgusted with Ohio State, or the Big Ten in general, but there you go.