re: Why Did We Let Texas In?

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by PerrillouxToTexas
Texas has had a standing invite to the SEC since Harvey Schiller was your commissioner. Every previous expansion included a historical rival. It was inevitable.

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That is not a factual claim.

First of all, who were the "historical" rivalries in '92 and 2012?

I get the SC-UGA thing. That series has been played more and longer than a lot of original member series because of the border thing but .... well, I guess there was the Deep South connection, the State Capital and Flagship University connection ... and SC had played all SEC members over the course of the 20th Century .... so I get that one.

Who was Arkansas' historical SEC rival in '92?

Arkansas was, maybe I guess, Mizzou's historical rival for entry some twenty years later. And A&M had history with both of them.

As far as Harvey Schiller's standing invite to Texas goes .... I've never once seen or heard that before now. Would you have a link to support your claim? Because, I know for a fact, that was never mentioned in either of the two accepted books about the history of the SEC from conception to the 2012 expansion.

Your claim seems like typical lefty revisionism .... revising history seems to be a thing with lefties, communists, socialists, et al.