There is a lot of truth here, but with aggy that's not enough and never has been. They want to badly to be the Texas flagship and one of the college football blue bloods. Sleeping giant and all that. In their heads they always have been, they just didn't have any of those pesky results to back it up. The mean media refused to acknowledge just how super special they are.
They thought being the lone SEC school from Texas was their ticket. That conference continued to take a bigger piece of the pie (money and attention) in the college landscape while they naively thought Texas would slowly slide into obscurity because of the Big 12. You heard Bjork say it yesterday, they want their own identity and to them that only comes if they are the state of Texas' SEC school. Once Texas has that magic patch on their shoulder as well all of a sudden they lose the entirety of what they convinced themselves was their ticket to the big-time.