Texas A.D. Dodds Blames End Of A&M Series On A&M (Also Talks Expansion)

You’ve got to hand it to DeLoss Dodds.  His lies give credence to the old line that “everything’s bigger in Texas.”

The Longhorn athletic director said in an interview with the student newspaper at UT — the Big XII’s UT, not the SEC’s — that it’s Texas A&M who brought the football rivalry between the two schools to a halt, not the other way around.  This in spite of the fact that everyone outside the Lone Star State and half the people in it know full well that A&M has said it wants to continue playing the series and that Dodds’ school is the one that balked:

“I’m think we’ll play sometime.  I don’t know when it will happen or how it will happen, but I’m sure it will happen…

They left.  They’re the ones that decided not to play us.  We get to decide when we play again.  I think that’s fair.  If you did a survey of our fans about playing A&M, they don’t want to.  It’s overwhelming.  I know.  I hear it.  Our fans are important to us.  I think there’s got to be a period where things get different.  I think there’s too many hard feelings.”

“They’re the ones that decided not to play us,” is a complete fallacy, a canard, an untruth.  Georgia Tech once left the SEC.  Their arch-rival, Georgia, didn’t take their ball and run home.  South Carolina left the ACC in 1971.  Their hated cross-state neighbor, Clemson, didn’t pout and cancel the South’s uninterrupted football series.

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