re: You're welcome, SEC brethren

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Not only would we have renegotiated the Network would have existed with or without you.

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If you mean you could have expanded with someone else, sure. Any expansion triggers a look in. But that was needed, no way ESPN redoes a great deal for them with a decade left on it for the frick of it.

But a TCU or a Baylor wouldn't have gotten full rates in Texas. You needed a major fan base to force the hands of cable providers in the state to carry it year one.

I do 100% agree it doesn't revolve around us. This is the SEC brand you built monetized through our population. It is what you call a good partnership and both needs the other.

We certainly contributed enough for me to talk shite about it to fellow Texans though. I hope you will at least see reason to grant us that much.