Not thrilled about playing State

keith · December 9

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 · December 9

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.

HouCat · 2024-12-18T23:36:45Z

On 12/9/2024 at 10:16 AM, MeanGreenTexan said:

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.

Lord knows we've had our own problems...we were snubbed for bowls two years in a row after moving to FBS and then proceeded to crap the bed for almost a decade under two different coaches. Our recent success hasn't come easy and we're grateful for the progress we've made as a program.

That being said I don't think any Bobcats think ya'll are above us (just being honest) and looking at the metrics you'd be hard pressed to find a more equal pairing of in-state institutions.

Both schools founded in the 1890s as teacher colleges
Both have 40k+ students and ~400k alumni
Both have respectable endowments (TXST has about $100m more in the bank)
Both have respectable athletics budgets (NTX spends about $10m more per year)

Looking down on folks is a funny thing...sometimes you're the pigeon, and sometimes you're the statue.

meangreenfaninno · 2024-12-19T00:09:05Z

31 minutes ago, HouCat said:

Lord knows we've had our own problems...we were snubbed for bowls two years in a row after moving to FBS and then proceeded to crap the bed for almost a decade under two different coaches. Our recent success hasn't come easy and we're grateful for the progress we've made as a program.

That being said I don't think any Bobcats think ya'll are above us (just being honest) and looking at the metrics you'd be hard pressed to find a more equal pairing of in-state institutions.

Both schools founded in the 1890s as teacher colleges

Both have 40k+ students and ~400k alumni

Both have respectable endowments (TXST has about $100m more in the bank)

Both have respectable athletics budgets (NTX spends about $10m more per year)

Looking down on folks is a funny thing...sometimes you're the pigeon, and sometimes you're the statue.

Yes you will find most of us on here have been supportive of Texas State and would trade you for those San Antonio bums any day of the week! Love your campus also.

trud1966 · 2024-12-19T00:48:24Z

Beneath us???????? Have we not learned by now, NOBODY should be considered beneath us...NEVER....It's NEVER "in the bag...." It's time to add a lil GREEN to this Christmas Tree...

Edited 5 hours ago by trud1966

HouCat · 2024-12-19T00:52:33Z

43 minutes ago, meangreenfaninno said:

Yes you will find most of us on here have been supportive of Texas State and would trade you for those San Antonio bums any day of the week! Love your campus also.

Thank you for the kind words. We don’t hate many things but those bums in San Antonio are at the top of our list.

Cougar King · 2024-12-19T02:12:00Z

2 hours ago, HouCat said:

Lord knows we've had our own problems...we were snubbed for bowls two years in a row after moving to FBS and then proceeded to crap the bed for almost a decade under two different coaches. Our recent success hasn't come easy and we're grateful for the progress we've made as a program.

That being said I don't think any Bobcats think ya'll are above us (just being honest) and looking at the metrics you'd be hard pressed to find a more equal pairing of in-state institutions.

Both schools founded in the 1890s as teacher colleges

Both have 40k+ students and ~400k alumni

Both have respectable endowments (TXST has about $100m more in the bank)

Both have respectable athletics budgets (NTX spends about $10m more per year)

Looking down on folks is a funny thing...sometimes you're the pigeon, and sometimes you're the statue.