Don't let this week make much of an impression on you. There has been a lot of chicken counting, name calling, and a general lack of intelligent thinking around here this week, mostly due to the emotional cost of all of this. It has been a pretty atypical week around here.
Its best just to not put much stock in what is said until things calm down.
At this point, that's a good way to think about
all college football.
And as far as who feels what about whom...let me mention one thing.
For better or worse, down here in Austin, no one pays attention to any other school in the conference, with the exception of OU and (sometimes) A&M, until the very week that we have a game with them. It's not meant to be insulting, it's just the way things are. I get the feeling that across Texas, the local communities are much more focused on their local team than are, say the communities of Manhattan, Lincoln, or anywhere else. While you folks certainly support your local teams, you at least pay attention to what the rest of the league is doing. In Austin, College Station, Lubbock and yes, even Waco, they just don't care about anyone else until the week of "The Game".
EDIT LATER:
Need one more example of this? The local talk show jocks here in Austin have already come up with a name for this new western conference.
The thought is that since some of the teams are in the South....and others in the West.....we'll just call it............ The Southwest Conference!
No. I am not making this up.
