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From Nebraska: "B12 Still Has a Texas Problem"
Posted on 6/15/10 at 8:55 pm
Posted on 6/15/10 at 8:55 pm
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 9:05 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
quote:Like I said. UT got some of what it wanted. . but TAMU played Bevo like a fiddle.
If you wanted to know what scares Texas, the Aggies unloaded the kryptonite. If Texas is Sentenza il brutto, the SEC is Tuco il cattivo. If the A&M gave the keys of Texas high school football to the SEC and its greasy palms, UT could no longer so easily usher in its preferred prospects on Junior Day and pressure them into committing. You don’t want a guy like Nick Saban sniffing around the DFW Metroplex and Houston, selling kids on the best football conference in the nation (which it still is).
But A&M’s bluff had a lot more bite than UT’s threat to disavow College Station. An encroachment from the east by the SEC, coupled with an inevitable partnership with the West, would have put Texas in a kind of checkmate. Far from consolidating its power from Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, the two moves combined would have eroded what makes Texas…Texas.
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