Now, I've been watching football in this state since Houston was still in the Southwest Conference, and let me tell you something, son. This kind of talk is why we used to love playing the Cougars back in the day, because you could always count on them getting ahead of their skis. You talk about last season's hype, but I remember when Houston had Andre Ware and the run-and-shoot, and they still found a way to let it slip away when it mattered. You're new to the Big 12, and you're gonna learn real quick that Lubbock on a Saturday night isn't anything like playing Rice at Robertson Stadium. We've been through the wars with the likes of Texas and Oklahoma for decades, battles you folks haven't been a part of since the 90s. You call us a paper tiger, but I watched Zach Thomas and Byron Hanspard punch teams in the mouth with real toughness, not this flash-in-the-pan portal roster you're bilding. That disrespect you're feeling? We've eaten it for breakfast for 30 years while building a program that actually wins bowl games. You want to claim the state? You have to earn it on the field, not in the offseason. We've been doing that since Spike Dykes was on the sideline, and we're not about to hand anything over to a team that hasn't sniffed a conference title since the Reagan administration. Come out to Jones AT&T and say that to our faces. We'll see who's a paper tiger.