The sel. comm. has your east coast ties. Albeit not media, but everyone is influenced by the media.
No Digger Phelps, nor anyone else that says something on t.v., or for that matter on a website, or in the paper concerns me. You know what they say about opinions . . . They're like a-holes - everyone has one, and they all stink.
Bottom line is this. It sounds like you know your team is good, and that they'll win their next game. What difference does it make what someone else has to say about them? If they lose on Saturday, there will be people saying "I told you so about tejas." If they win on Monday, there will still be people on the other side of the victory, saying how the other team lost the game, or some other piece of biased wisdom.