“For whatever reason, the governor (Greg Abbott), and I don’t know why the governor has any say-so or comment about who’s in our league — that blows me away — but the governor now wants them in,” he said Thursday.

What ultimately chaps Gundy now is what chapped him back in March. If conference expansion is about cashing in, and nothing brings in the bonanza that football does, why aren’t football people being consulted more? Why is this process being left solely to presidents, chancellors, politicians and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby?

“I’m real concerned about that, yeah. Sure am,” Gundy said. “At the end of the day there’s a lot of talk that can go on, but it’s going to come down to football. All the other things are really good, but if you can’t pay the bills, you get to move out of your house.”

Gundy isn’t so sure about a Big 12 house that includes Houston, or any other new residents for that matter. Ten seems plenty to him.