re: OU received invite in 2010 but did not think A&M was a good partner

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(from June 2010)

The president of the University of Oklahoma says his school and Texas A&M both received invitations to join the Southeastern Conference during the last round of conference realignment.

Oklahoma ended up remaining in the Big 12. University president David Boren said Wednesday that the Sooners had offers from both the SEC and the Pac-10.

Boren says the Pac-10 offer was for five Big 12 schools Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech to join as a group. He says the SEC extended offers only to Oklahoma and Texas A&M, both of which opted to stay in a slimmed-down Big 12 after Colorado left for the Pac-10 and Nebraska left for the Big Ten.

Boren says because the SEC offer didn't include Oklahoma State and Texas, he didn't consider it a good option.

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So this cat was only interested if the offer included four (!) schools?

Also crazy to think what the current football landscape would look like if those five teams had bolted for the Pac way back then.