Texas had an opportunity to reduce the $2.5 million buyout it owes Houston for new football coach Tom Herman.

"We gave them an option for a home-and-home basketball and football series if we wanted to agree to a value for those two entities and reduce that off the $2.5 [million]," Houston athletic director Hunter Yurachek told reporters Monday in Houston.

The Texas administration, including athletic director Mike Perrin, eventually decided against the deal, Yurachek said.

"Mike Perrin has called me and told that is not an option that is on the table any longer," Yurachek said. "So we'll receive the $2.5 million from Texas for that."

Texas' non-conference schedule is pretty well locked in through 2020, with only a few holes through 2024.

And the Longhorns last visit to Houston in 2001 is not exactly well-remembered. A total of 4,150 temporary seats were declared unsafe, displacing some Texas fans at old Robertson Stadium.

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