Can You Be an Aggie and a Longhorn? Yes—if You’re a Coach.

The Texas–Texas A&M football game is back this week, after a thirteen-year hiatus. Texas Monthly, which has long covered the rivalry, rejoices in its return with a full collection of stories about the game’s history, off-the-field antics, major players, and more. Read everything here. On the late-June day that former Texas A&M baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle left for the same job at a certain school in Austin, University of Texas women’s basketball coach Vic Schaefer got a text from an old friend in College Station: “Today is almost as bad as the day you took the job at Texas.”Schaefer is an actual Aggie (class of 1984) who also spent nine years as an assistant coach to Gary Blair, including during the 2011 national championship season. But because he…

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