re: Texas fans- I have a question about rivalries

If you are a long-time Texan (2nd-5th generation), you are not only blessed to be a denizen of God's country, but like was previously stated you probably have a complicated family tree and social network and professional network littered with both Aggies and Longhorns. The familiarity, and passion, combined with the proximity fuels the hate and smolders year round.

But alumni of the last generation (graduated from 2000's-Today, let's call it) know the enemy of great is good. And OU is good enough to get in our way from time to time, and visa versa, especially in seasons when either of us are on a road to national stage prominence. National stage prominence not being anything aggy is familiar with except for the brief flame of Johnny Football.

They've never won anything and, though the law of large numbers and just sheer mathematical probability says on a long enough timeline in a multiverse they should, they probably never will.

That knowledge is good enough and while I hate OU and don't hate a&m (a lot of Longhorns kids will probably have to go there since the academic standards of UT are so difficult these days and a&m is truthfully a good enough school for an upper middle class life in Texas), I do get much more schadenfreude and emotional fulfillment from aggy football failure and their fans turmoil. The Jimbo train wreck the last few years has been opoid-grade feel good in the veins for me, for example.