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Texas AD on possible A&M rivalry resumption: 'We're booked through '27'

Published May. 18, 2015 12:40 p.m. ET

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The Hatfields and McCoys, in this case Texas and Texas A&M, just don't want to get along.

A couple of weeks after A&M chancellor John Sharp took a few shots at Texas and said the Aggies have new friends in the SEC, therefore have no interest in rekindling one of college football's oldest rivalries, Texas athletic director Steve Patterson fired back.

It appears the Aggies and Longhorns won't be meeting on the football field for a long, long time.

Patterson met with several members of the media at the Associated Press Sports Editors Southwest Regional meeting Sunday afternoon. He answered questions on various topics, including the potential for Texas and Texas A&M to resume the century-old rivalry. Patterson made it pretty clear he has no intention of making it happen.

Patterson also fired back at the Aggies' television deal with the SEC Network following Sharp's slap-down of the Longhorn Network when he suggested teams can get on "real TV" by playing the Aggies.

Texas' non-conference schedule is filled for future seasons, but not exactly as far into the future as Patterson intimates. There are spots to fill starting in 2019. Even if the two schools wanted to play in the next few years, surely each could arrange to drop a non-conference school to make room.

Texas' upcoming non-conference schedules are stacked with tough competition, so the Longhorns wouldn't exactly jump to add another tough opponent before starting conference play unless, you know, it really wanted to appease the fans. But clearly, that is not a priority.

Texas, in full-blown rebuild mode under second-year coach Charlie Strong, has its hands full with the teams it has already scheduled, which includes Notre Dame in 2015 and 2016, USC and Maryland in 2017 and 2018, and LSU in 2019 and 2020. Ohio State and Michigan are on the schedule into the 2020s.

(h/t Dallas Morning News)

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