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Why has it become accepted wisdom with national CFB reporters that Texas has a history of hogging revenue and bullying other schools? That's false. Uniquely among CFB programs, Texas has supported a half-dozen smaller schools at all times for D-E-C-A-D-E-S

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Read this: texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

It tells the story of the SWC up to the mid-70's. Texas was subsidizing the conference at a 1:4 share even back then. Rice and TCU struggled to get 15K fans for their games but each got paid ~10% of Texas' TV revenue. \2
When Arkansas left the SWC, they weren't leaving Texas - that rivalry is still powerfully maintained by Arky fans to this day - they were leaving annual games against Rice, Baylor, TCU, SMU, Texas Tech, and Houston. Which Texas and Texas A&M then got stuck with. \3
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