(04-17-2017 11:14 AM)ManleyPointer Wrote:  Easy to imagine the ADs demanding SoCal access. But the university presidents? To the point that they would blackball the University of Texas?

And Texas already sits on a goldmine of talent. I'd wager that the CA schools covet TX talent far more than the TX schools covet CA talent.

Athletics are revenue-neutral university advertising. That is why university presidents put up with all the problems and headaches they cause.

Where do AZ, ASU, Utah, CU, UW, and UO get top out-of-state tuition paying students? (Hint-Colorado is almost another CU campus). Also, a large portion of the alumni base (read donors) for these schools are in California. That's why university presidents want a strong presence in California.

PAC schools can never monopolize Texas talent to the extent they can retain a large share of CA talent, so CA talent will always be more important.

The University of Texas is the biggest athletic department in the country and a top academic institution. But from an academic perspective, it's still little brother to Cal, Stanford, UCLA, and even UCSD. UT isn't even on the same level as UW. UT athletics may be enough to carry a bunch of tag-alongs in the eyes of ADs/Scott, but that wouldn't pass muster with the presidents.