re: A retrospective look at Longhorn fans' initial reactions to the SEC Network

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Colorado already had a deal to go to the PAC before any of the Texas/Oklahoma schools were considering it.

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I don't believe that is accurate. Colorado was part of the six school group that Larry Scott envisioned coming over. I don't know who Scott talked to other than Bill Powers and Deloss Dodd (he didn't talk to anyone at A&M about it, even though they were in the proposed group, until A&M told the Horns they weren't going, so Colorado may have just been along for the ride, too). The reason that the Pac moved on Colorado was that, once Baylor got wind of what was happening, they thought they might be able to use political leverage to force Texas to take them along, rather than Colorado. The Pac 12 didn't want Baylor, so they made a preemptive move to take Colorado before they had the other Big XII schools lined up. The deal for the other Big XII schools fell apart when Texas insisted on retaining their 3rd tier rights rather than participating in the Pac's network, so the Pac had to add Utah as damage control.

Perhaps Colorado and Utah would have gotten offers under a difference scenario, but we'll never know, because the reason it went down the way it did was the Pac's aversion to Baylor horning in on the deal.