Like I said in the other thread, the UT AD understands (and Herman admitted as well) that the reality with their current schedule is they have no marquee rivalry game for the fans at home.

But like I also said, the problem is the ego involved. UT will only resume the series if they get to pretend that they absolutely didn't want it but were forced into it by the people of Texas and of course by little brother A&M who desperately wants them back because we just can't live without them. Which as you can imagine does not engender a desire to resume the series on our part.

Further, most of our fans are smart enough to see that they need this game way more than we do right now. Our schedule is awesome every year theirs is garbage. They need us to sell tickets we don't. They need this to get recruiting back on track. We don't.

but what it really comes down to is that if we were drowning like they are now, they wouldn't throw us a lifeline, they would step on our neck and finish the job. So WTF should we throw them a life line?