Let me make an addendum to my thoughts here, if we were to argue the point with the raiders. There is really no possible way that their football job could be considered as prestigious as ours. For better or worse, long-standing school traditions equate into a large chunk of that prestige. Hence the reasoning for Notre Dame always being a high-profile job. This, of course, excepts the cases of Ivy League schools, military academies, etc. who once did, but do not compete (by choice or the dynamic nature of D-1 football) as national powers anymore.
Therefore, let's look at history--the FIRST public school in the state, founded in 1876 vs. what was essentially founded in 1923 as a second-tier university to bring up the rear behind us and the boys at the forty acres.
If you want, we can also compare championships. One outright national championship (and awarded by at least one system in two other years), 19 conference titles, 13 bowl wins and a Heisman trophy winner vs. nothing remotely close to a national championship, two conference co-titles, and of course, no Heismans.
Interestingly enough, our athletic history has a prominent link on our website, while I couldn't even find this data on Tech's website. I won't even get into our traditions, while Tech attempts to consider the following to be their traditions:
--A to Z (they thought of stuff for each letter about the school...their artificial turf and their first televised game are on there, I am not kidding)
--their band (maybe a halfway pass, as the FTAB is a tradition as well, although its like comparing t-ball to the New York Yankees)
--their Spirit Squad (no comment)
--the Masked Rider (maybe their one true tradition)
--their Hall of Honor (could be, although we don't consider our Hall of Honor to be one)
--their football, basketball, and baseball stadiums (are you kidding?? Kyle isn't even labeled as one of our traditions and its the #1 football stadium in America)
This conversation is really ridiculous, and I don't even know why I spent so much time comparing the prestige of the two football programs and jobs. I just had to let it out, I suppose.