I don't miss playing the horns. I find that, each season, I am more and more ambivalent about the horns. I can still say that a good longhorn loss takes some of the edge off of a painful Aggie loss.
At this point, A&M doesn't need the game. But the rivalry will renew when it is mutually beneficial. The next meeting will likely be in a major bowl. Not in a medium or lower tier bowl. In other words, not in the Herman era. Neither school wants the first game to be at a garbage bowl. A matchup in the BCS, er CFP would be awesome. Maybe someday.