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Gordon Gee: Busy

Fun stuff yesterday as ESPN.com reported the West Virginia University president is globetrotting on behalf of the Big 12 to visit and essentially vet the possible candidates for expansion.

Documents reveal that Gee has been busy in that role in recent months, which has included a trip to the University of Houston in late November.

Documents show that Gee flew to Houston on Nov. 29 to tour the school’s athletic facilities and speak with top officials. According to an itinerary outlining the visit, Gee met with Houston president Renu Khator for more than an hour the morning of Nov. 30, then was taken on a tour of the athletic facilities by athletic director Hunter Yurachek and football coach Tom Herman. Gee finished up by having lunch with Khator, three of the school’s regents, vice chancellor Eloise Stuhr and Camden Property Trust CEO Ric Campo, who reportedly played a major part in the city of Houston landing the 2017 Super Bowl.

Khator followed up by forwarding Gee a spreadsheet of the Houston football team’s TV ratings in the Houston market during the 2015 season.

Khator, however, isn’t the only Big 12 expansion president that Gee has been in contact with.

Gee, of course, is on the three-president composition committee that evaluates expansion candidates, and he is known to be in favor of growing. It’s not quite riveting to discover he’s doing what he’s tasked to do, but the reaction, including the pictured propaganda and an aggressive plan by Memphis, show how far down the road thingsĀ are, even with Colorado State!