Not thrilled about playing State

[keith]

13 hours ago, Cooke County Kid said:

This is a Great Opportunity, when we beat them it will show that we are indeed ahead of them as a program and institution, if we lose not so good. 

We were an SBC team when we beat Cincinnati in the New Orleans Bowl and look at them now.  So maybe there is a faint silverish lining if we are not able to pull off the win.  Hahahaha. 

[MeanGreenTexan]

11 hours ago, Cooley said:

From an historical perspective, I understand his sentiments. We were clearly the better program for a number of years.  They have continued to improve on the field and we have not. They're not a better program today; although their current day success. Rightfully or not, this is the same feeling SMU has had toward us, forever. 

I've always felt, we are the un-luckiest program in the country in terms of elevating the program. We see signs on the field then regress. Props to Southwest Texas State. I can't get excited either thinking back to those Southland Conference days together at Fouts Field.      

This right here.     
We have a ton of people with big-picture blinders on, looking at this game myopically.

When talking about the actual competition on the gridiorn, CORRECT (sadly), we're not "above" them.

When stepping back to look at the state of each school's football teams... UNT left the SLC in 1996, and have spun our wheels, generally speaking, for 3 decades.   
SWT left the SLC in 2012, and here we are, still spinning wheels, sweating a loss to a program we had an almost 2 decade head start on.