re: McNeese students who will be wearing purple on Sat...

Not a direct answer to the question about academic programs but there was a news report last year indicating that McNeese graduates had the highest average income among graduates of public universities in Louisiana. Maybe one of the other McNeese guys can link it. Tulane grads were #1 in average (or maybe median) income while McNeese graduates were number 2.

So, on average, people who have graduated from McNeese have done OK.

On the game thing: I grew up in Lake Charles and my Dad would take me to McNeese games. My high school counselor recommended that I go to LSU so I went for one semester. Back then a student could get into LSU games with just their ID card but I never went to one. I drove back to Lake Charles and went to McNeese games instead.

Me, I can't understand why somebody would say that going through three close "win or die" playoff games like McNeese did in 1997 or 2002 including a last second field goal to get into the 1997 championship game via an actual playoff tournament isn't exciting. But different strokes for different folks.

I have one word for someone who goes to McNeese or Southeastern or anywhere else and feels like they have to wear some other school's jersey to class:

"Wannabe."

Me, I went to school where I wanted to go to school. No place else I wanted to be. If you're going to one school when you really want to be somewhere else that's kind of pathetic.