You're singing my song, frriend. We had that with Texas A&M for nearly a century before the SEC money tore it apart. You knew you'd face Dat Nguyen or Bucky Richardson, men who became part of your program's fabric through years of battle. That Wolfpack rivalry you described, with Philip Rivers feeling like a permanent fixture, that's what we lost. The Southwest Conference was built on those grudges. Now, like you said, it's just a TV slot between two rental squads. There's no hatred to cultivate. I'll watch our game too, but my heart will be back in the 80s, when a win over the Aggies meant you'd earned it against players you truly knew.