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Originally Posted by Dirty D
So how do you explain TU saying "no" to continuing the game when TAMU asked? Think about it from the A&M side....SEC schedule AND Texas every year? Most years that would be a great strength of schedule.
WTF does Texas have against playing ANY SEC team? They don't want to play Arkansas or LSU, two geographic and recruiting rivals. Texas has a serious bug up it's ass when comes to even talking about the SEC.
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"The Texas-Texas A&M rivalry appears to be over.
Or, at the very least, suspended:
Texas athletics director DeLoss Dodds sent an email to his counterpart Bill Byrne at Texas A&M to let him know that Texas' nonconference schedule was full through 2018.
"In my e-mail to Bill Byrne, I wrote that we were not in a position now to look at future football scheduling," Dodds said. "We're scheduled out with nonconference games through 2018 and our Big 12 schedule is not yet settled. What we have right now is a full schedule but if any future options are available, the decision will not be made by just one person."
Texas A&M will start competing in the Southeastern Conference in 2012.
Even with that move, Byrne told the Houston Chronicle that Texas A&M has always been open to continuing the 117-year-old rivalry with Texas. But Byrne told the paper that door had been closed by Dodds when he told him Texas' nonconference schedule was full through 2018.
Texas had publicly been noncommittal when it came to continuing the tradition of playing Texas A&M on the traditional Thanksgiving date. Other schools, such as Notre Dame, have been floated as possible replacements for Texas A&M.
The last scheduled meeting between Texas and Texas A&M is set for Nov. 24 in College Station."
The poor ATM ask for all this and can do "no" wrong! They VOLUNTARILY leave a conference that allows them to compete directly for league titles with their biggest rival, and it's UT's fault they're not playing anymore. That's fine, the Big 12's already replaced them with a team that's actually been to a BCS bowl recently. See ya later, bye. Maybe ATM and Vandi can play on Thanksgiving...."Turkey Bowl" for last place in the SEC!!
