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If Texas had not raised their skirts to the PAC twice and gotten blackballed by Stanford it would have been Texas long ago but that boat has sailed and will not return to the dock.

Blackballed by Stanford? I thought that was Baylor that Berkeley and Stanford opposed so vigorously. Do you have any proof of this? Texas and Stanford have played several times over the years in football, and especially baseball.

By the way, Texas turned down the Pac-10, not the other way around. That is revisionist history.

Facts:

The Pac-10 expansion attempt to include Texas was in June 2010.

The Big 12 voted to allow schools to create their own network about that time, which sweetened the pot for Texas to stay in the Big 12.

The contract with ESPN and the Longhorn Network was not signed until Dec. 2010.

The University of Texas was still considering which network to partner with as late as Oct. 2010.

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Posted by Cheese Grits

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Posted on 4/4/17 at 10:02 pm to texashorn

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Blackballed by Stanford? I thought that was Baylor that Berkeley and Stanford opposed so vigorously.

I am talking about the first time in the 90's - Baylor was not on that move, it was just Texas and Texas A&M. By 2010 I think they gut Stanford to chill the first imd but it would not shock me if Cal and Stanford "chilled" the second time Larry Scott went back and that is why the PAC dropped expansion.

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Facts:

The Pac-10 expansion attempt to include Texas was in June 2010.

Your facts are incorrect, the PAC move was first discussed when the B1G wanted to add Penn State and Notre Dame back in the late 1980's.

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Do you have any proof of this?

Yes, but nothing that can be linked on the internet. Back in the old days it was face to face conversations and nobody was writing any of what was discussed down, I can assure you of that.

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