When it comes to the Texas-Texas A&M series revival, it seems the coaches want it but the powers that be have no genuine interest. Case in point, the most recent comments from Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp on Friday.
“My sense is with the 12th Man – we’ve got new friends,” Sharp said, according to The Houston Chronicle. Those new friends he is referring to reside in the SEC West. Apparently it is enough to fill any void previously filled by Texas on the schedule.
“That would be a decision made by regents … (some) day,” Sharp said. “We haven’t had any more discussions about that.”
And that is the problem. The people who truly matter with having this discussion continue to avoid each other, either out of pride or spite or whatever reason you want to come up with.
There will come a day when Texas and Texas A&M get back together on the football field, it is just a matter of when that day finally comes. The SEC requiring all members to schedule at least one game against another power conference program would seem to help the cause to revive the in-state rivalry, but the Aggies have that covered through 2021, so any need to get Texas on the Texas A&M schedule is not there for some time.
And so the waiting game continues...