Arkansas State Coach Butch Jones said he didn't want it to be the storyline of the week.
His Texas State counterpart, Jake Spavital, said he hadn't specifically talked about it with his guys.
There's plenty of weirdness to it all -- the "it" being that the Bobcats' starting quarterback and leading rusher were on the opposite side of this budding rivalry, which will continue today at Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos, Texas
It's not just that Layne Hatcher and Lincoln Pare were Red Wolves. Both were faces of ASU's program.
"I respect everyone's choices and decisions," Jones said when asked about the difficulty of losing leaders in the early stages of building a program.