Here’s Pesik’s post that including both the 1956 and 1990 newspaper clippings on Houston invite to the SEC.
The 2nd article mentions Rudy Davalos who was the UH athletic directory in 1990. The same one @MonCoog told us he worked with at the time, and revealed in multiple posts of the on-the-ground happenings.
That’s a lot of smoke for the 1990 expansion. Granted it was dependent on Pac10 taking UT/ATM or ATM joining w/ UH, but even as a partner or a bargaining chip, UH was a candidate to move over there had the chips fell a little better.