Rice Football ends nation's longest losing streak!

We won the right way, homosexual-free and against a team battered by hurricane Katrina.

 

I was there! Anyone else?

 

I like how Matt Jackson of sportsradio610 wanted Rice to lose all their games so UH can hand them their final 0-fer. That's why I like his show.

 

Jackson is probably still reeling from Cougar High's winless season in 2001....or perhaps Rice's defeat of the Coogs last year...or perhaps from Rice's domination of all sporting events with UH over the course of the past year...

 

Rice athletics is like the special olympics. You get a trophy for participating. No offense to the special olympics.

 

Lance Berkman and Jose Cruz Jr., among others, object.

 

why has a coach with some pretty decent success at major college programs stuck around at rice for so many years? I didnt even know hatfield was their coach...and he's been there forever.

 

He's had tremendous job security for quite some time, a nice paycheck, and very low expectations for success. Overall, that's a pretty nice way to finish the last stages of a coaching career. This season's ineptitude has really turned up the heat on him, as alums are increasingly dissatisfied with the team's performance. With the Owls' success in other sports such as baseball, basketball, track, soccer, etc, many alums are starting to expect more out of the football program.

It will always be hard for Rice to compete with the large state schools in football, given the stringent academic requirements to play at Rice. The talent pool in football is much different than baseball and even basketball, and results in a tremendous advantage for the schools that willfully allow players with a 750 SAT score to become 'student' athletes (cough... Jamaal Charles... cough).

 

He's lucky to have been there that long. It seemed like a good deal at first, but the team performance went downhill after a few years when he ran out of the last guy's recruits. Our changing conference affiliations, if anything, should have been making things easier. There is a lot of discussion among fans regarding the well-known disparity between "haves" and "have-nots" in terms of being left out of the BCS and not being able to recruit most players for academic reasons.... and also the administration's lack of support for athletics. Attendance has fallen drastically, there isn't much marketing to the community, and even the student body isn't that interested. There are hints from former players and parents that they could have done better with the talent they had, but chose not to for whatever reason. Hatfield refuses to change the offense or anything else.

This game, the student body actually did show up... wearing "Hire Fatfield" shirts.

 

I hope you save some room for all the crow you'll be eating whenever Rice loses to UH in all three sports this year.

 

Surely you're not including baseball in the 3 sports you're talking about. We will mop the floor with you as usual this season.

As for basketball, this is a rebuilding year for us and I'm not going to run smack about that. We still have bragging rights from last year's win. Football - I don't have my hopes up, but as of right now we have bragging rights from last year's win.

 

Gotta love the Coog fans announcing victory before the games have even been played. By the way, Rice completed the big three sport sweep of UH last year. We can actually back up our smack, unlike you.

 

Being aligned in CUSA West now, there isn't any reason Rice shouldn't be able to at least be competitive about 2 out of every 3 years.. provided they played more cupcakes in OOC play.

 

Since you guys seem to be all about living in the past, maybe you can get in touch with some of your Rice history major buddies and have them look up the historical context of the series between these two schools.

 

Is it just me, or is this thread incontravertible proof that texxx and Jorge are the same person?

 

ME and my girls were on section 109. What is the name of the heckler group behind the visiting team that keeps screaming at the other players??? All wearing Blue & Gray... I loved that... and also loved the Lord Of The Rings-themed half.

Quinton gets stopped behind the line.

Tulane's Scott Elliott throws the interception that SEALS IT.

Scoreboard. I have more pictures.

Here is the 1st touchdown, Wall taking it down the middle for 6. That's my 4-year-old, Brenda Isabel cheering at the end. You might be in there... right when I pan the crowd... (7MB)

 

I've known that one for a long long time.....

 

What is Rice's minimum for athletes, 1000?

Give yourself another pat on the back.

 

Having roomed with Michael Harris, I have to believe that 1000 isn't a hard and fast requirment...