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The dismissal of Parmley comes at a time when Conference USA has been in flux. The Golden Hurricane won the C-USA football championship this season, but six schools plan to leave the league next season for the Big East, which also faces the potential departure of a number of schools. "I don't anticipate things moving terribly quickly, and right now, it's not clear what the best course of action is," Tulsa President Upham Steadman said. "We want to be in a conference where our coaches have the ability to recruit five-star athletes and to be able to say we're going to play in Dallas and Houston, and we're on the big screen. That's what talented football and basketball players are looking for. "I also want to be in a conference that we can be proud of academically," he said. "Losing two of the private schools (SMU and Tulane) in Conference USA is damaging to me, in the way I think about the conference. Whether that forces us to take an action, I can't speculate. For one thing, it's not our call. We have to have an invitation (to move from C-USA to another league)." Upham said he has been watching the developments in the Big East, which has lost football schools to the ACC and recently had a group of basketball-focused schools announce their plans to form a new conference. The trickle-down effects could reach Tulsa. "Rumor has it that the Mountain West might take two additional members," Upham said. "The question is, would they take a Tulsa? Or would they take a media market like Dallas or a media market like Houston? That's been our problem going forward. "But let me say to you that we're having the necessary conversations, and people know what our intentions are and what our aspirations are. People can see what our record has been." Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Tulsa-s-search-for-AD-on-hold-during-NCAA-probe-4155650.php#ixzz2GpQMsPMl