Rice seems to be elevating their athletics. They have tremendous potential as a conference member, similar to Tulane.

They have a long long way to go.

Rice. UAB. Old Dominion. Georgia St. Buffalo. Please stop with this nonsense. The AAC could've already invited any of these programs but did not. Why? Because they don't move the needle. Our league doesn't need further dilution - it needs strengthened or no action at all.

Rice is all built on oil money like Houston. They are a heavy academic university. While oil prices are in the gutter they're going nowhere.

Jess Neely, Dickey Maegle, etc.

When they get serious about athletics they ought to be the 12th. I think they have a fair amount of fan support and it does not hurt to overlap into Texas. They instantly add intriguing games between everybody in the AAC West.

(04-13-2020 11:06 AM)SMUstang Wrote:  Rice seems to be elevating their athletics. They have tremendous potential as a conference member, similar to Tulane.

Always did like their baseball program. Used to love the ECU vs Rice games when we were both CUSA.

(04-13-2020 11:38 AM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  Rice. UAB. Old Dominion. Georgia St. Buffalo. Please stop with this nonsense. The AAC could've already invited any of these programs but did not. Why? Because they don't move the needle. Our league doesn't need further dilution - it needs strengthened or no action at all.

IF, and it is a big IF, the AAC gets raided by the B12 in 24/25 because the B12 gets raided by the SEC (Oklahoma), P12(Texas or Kansas), B10 (Texas or Kansas), or ACC (Texas). then teams like Rice, UAB, ODU, Charlotte, GA St., and Buffalo are logically next in line to join the AAC should UCF, Cincy, and USF or Memphis leave for a cartel league which I am sure they would. Personally if we added replacement candidates in that scenario, I would actually prefer teams like Southern Miss, Marshall, and App. St.

Rice has an insane endowment. They drop a very small percentage of that and catch up as a top football school in 3-5 years.....if they ever wanted to....their relationship with sports is very weird.

(04-13-2020 01:46 PM)Pirate1989 Wrote:  

(04-13-2020 11:38 AM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  Rice. UAB. Old Dominion. Georgia St. Buffalo. Please stop with this nonsense. The AAC could've already invited any of these programs but did not. Why? Because they don't move the needle. Our league doesn't need further dilution - it needs strengthened or no action at all.

IF, and it is a big IF, the AAC gets raided by the B12 in 24/25 because the B12 gets raided by the SEC (Oklahoma), P12(Texas or Kansas), B10 (Texas or Kansas), or ACC (Texas). then teams like Rice, UAB, ODU, Charlotte, GA St., and Buffalo are logically next in line to join the AAC should UCF, Cincy, and USF or Memphis leave for a cartel league which I am sure they would. Personally if we added replacement candidates in that scenario, I would actually prefer teams like Southern Miss, Marshall, and App. St.

IMO, those teams will always be there. Where they gonna go? Nowhere. Aresco is not going to add those teams unless he is hamstrung upside down in a tree at gunpoint. I kid but there's no hurry for those blokes. The efforts will remain to entice BYU, Boise, et. al., until further notice. A lot can change before five years is up...

Don't we already have someone in the same city with Rice?

Tulane, right?

(04-13-2020 02:55 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Don't we already have someone in the same city with Rice?

Tulane, right?

Tulane is in New Orleans, the University of Houston is in the same city as Rice.

(04-13-2020 02:55 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Don't we already have someone in the same city with Rice?

Tulane, right?

We need somebody from the third largest city in Texas. That's Austin, right?

(04-13-2020 11:06 AM)SMUstang Wrote:  Rice seems to be elevating their athletics. They have tremendous potential as a conference member, similar to Tulane.

The have potential in the same way any school with an undergrad student body of 4 or 5 thousand can ever have. You'd be better off with almost any large student population public school if your are truly looking at long term "potential".

(04-13-2020 03:50 PM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(04-13-2020 02:55 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Don't we already have someone in the same city with Rice?

Tulane, right?

We need somebody from the third largest city in Texas. That's Austin, right?

Austin is 4th, but that’s ok. St Edwards has good potential so let’s add them too.

(04-13-2020 04:07 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(04-13-2020 03:50 PM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(04-13-2020 02:55 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Don't we already have someone in the same city with Rice?

Tulane, right?

We need somebody from the third largest city in Texas. That's Austin, right?

Austin is 4th, but that’s ok. St Edwards has good potential so let’s add them too.

Texas School For the Deaf is in Austin. We could give them a call.......oh......wait.

side note: Jank has already scheduled them.

(04-13-2020 12:25 PM)bullsbucsfan426 Wrote:  Rice is all built on oil money like Houston. They are a heavy academic university. While oil prices are in the gutter they're going nowhere.

Rice has a $6.5 BILLION endowment for 2500 undergrads.

The oilfields could evaporate overnight and they would still have more money than anyone else in this conference, at least per student, and that includes my beloved alma mater.

As far as athletics goes, I would absolutely love, love, love to see Rice in this conference but they have to choose to compete. Rice has made the decision to be a Vanderbilt without the aid of the SEC and it shows. Until Rice decides to actually compete seriously as a football school then they don't belong.

(04-13-2020 03:05 PM)SMUstang Wrote:  

(04-13-2020 02:55 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Don't we already have someone in the same city with Rice?

Tulane, right?

Tulane is in New Orleans, the University of Houston is in the same city as Rice.

That was more or less intended for the Houston people...

(04-13-2020 03:50 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(04-13-2020 11:06 AM)SMUstang Wrote:  Rice seems to be elevating their athletics. They have tremendous potential as a conference member, similar to Tulane.

The have potential in the same way any school with an undergrad student body of 4 or 5 thousand can ever have. You'd be better off with almost any large student population public school if your are truly looking at long term "potential".

While I agree that the conference should only go for a big population, good at football school. I disagree that Rice doesn't have unique potential. They are #15 in the country in endowment.....the only other D1 schools ahead of Rice (4k undergrad) are Notre Dame (8.5k undergrad), Northwestern (8k undergrad), Duke (7k undergrad). And none of them are in Texas...

Even with a tiny student population, Rice pouring some serious money into coaching + facilities could get football crazed Houstonians to attend.

It's all a moot point though. We got Coug High in conference and there's a lot more to like there anyway.

It would be great if there was some way Rice could get relevant and sign a deal to rotate playing Houston, Tulane, SMU, Tulsa.

he's trolling, fellas