31 homes games.
Minute Maid Classic games vs Arkansas, TCU and Louisiana-Lafayette
Host Arizona (x3), TCU, A&M, UCF (x3), and ECU (x3).
3 games vs UH (home, away, neutral)
http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-basebl/...15aau.html

(09-29-2015 06:44 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  31 homes games.
Minute Maid Classic games vs Arkansas, TCU and Louisiana-Lafayette
Host Arizona (x3), TCU, A&M, UCF (x3), and ECU (x3).
3 games vs UH (home, away, neutral)
http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-basebl/...15aau.html

No West Coast trip for the first year since the SWC (?)

(09-29-2015 07:00 PM)YOwl Ming Wrote:  

(09-29-2015 06:44 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  31 homes games.
Minute Maid Classic games vs Arkansas, TCU and Louisiana-Lafayette
Host Arizona (x3), TCU, A&M, UCF (x3), and ECU (x3).
3 games vs UH (home, away, neutral)
http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-basebl/...15aau.html

No West Coast trip for the first year since the SWC (?)

Yes, but it means more home games than the past 4 seasons, and that's a good thing. OOC schedule is once again really strong. ECU and UCF are both projected to be Top 35 post-season teams, A&M and UH will certainly be preseason Top 25, and our Minute Maid opponents are all projected to be Top 15 teams heading into the season.

Looks like I'll be spending the first two weeks of the season in Houston, and will finally attend my first Astros College Classic tourney.

Kind of interesting ... while our non-conference MBB and FB schedules appear to be focused towards the West Coast and MWC - we're playing 3 teams/9 games against AAC opponents this year in baseball.

(09-29-2015 06:44 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  31 homes games.
Minute Maid Classic games vs Arkansas, TCU and Louisiana-Lafayette
Host Arizona (x3), TCU, A&M, UCF (x3), and ECU (x3).
3 games vs UH (home, away, neutral)
http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-basebl/...15aau.html

I had been thinking we were going to open up on the road versus UT, in repayment for them playing us in a 4-game series at Reckling last year. Guess not. Is the UT-Rice series dead for now?

(09-29-2015 08:12 PM)Minnewaska Owl Wrote:  

(09-29-2015 06:44 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  31 homes games.
Minute Maid Classic games vs Arkansas, TCU and Louisiana-Lafayette
Host Arizona (x3), TCU, A&M, UCF (x3), and ECU (x3).
3 games vs UH (home, away, neutral)
http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-basebl/...15aau.html

I had been thinking we were going to open up on the road versus UT, in repayment for them playing us in a 4-game series at Reckling last year. Guess not. Is the UT-Rice series dead for now?

Resumes next year. Ditto Stanford.

(09-29-2015 07:00 PM)YOwl Ming Wrote:  No West Coast trip for the first year since the SWC (?)

It looks like 2006 was the last year in which we did not travel to the west. But we did travel north that year to Omaha!

Home baked schedule with a weak conference isn't going to help the RPI.

(09-29-2015 10:49 PM)Pellet Wrote:  Home baked schedule with a weak conference isn't going to help the RPI.

??? That is a strong OOC schedule. Last year our RPI was badly impacted by Arizona's, Stanford's and UT's woes. This year's OOC RPI should be much, much better.

I'm just glad we are back at Minute Maid next year

I think there's a decent chance this year's Arizona, ECU and UCF teams struggle about as much as last year's Arizona, Stanford and UT. I could be wrong and they're and certainly not supposed to. However, I'm not sold they'll be all that much better and therefore could have the same negative impact on RPI.

Along with the RPI ramifications, it's a bit disheartening to see former conference mates now acting as our RPI boosting out of conference competition. That kind of just rubs salt in the wounds of dealing with the new CUSA.

Either way, back to Minute Maid is great and should help our RPI. I'm glad we were able to get a conference opponent to move their schedule around to accommodate that tournament. I believe that's what we were told is the reason we didn't play in it last year.

(10-04-2015 04:09 PM)BufflOwl Wrote:  I think there's a decent chance this year's Arizona, ECU and UCF teams struggle about as much as last year's Arizona, Stanford and UT. I could be wrong and they're and certainly not supposed to. However, I'm not sold they'll be all that much better and therefore could have the same negative impact on RPI.

Along with the RPI ramifications, it's a bit disheartening to see former conference mates now acting as our RPI boosting out of conference competition. That kind of just rubs salt in the wounds of dealing with the new CUSA.

Either way, back to Minute Maid is great and should help our RPI. I'm glad we were able to get a conference opponent to move their schedule around to accommodate that tournament. I believe that's what we were told is the reason we didn't play in it last year.

We didn't get a conference opponent to move their schedule around and, as a consequence, we have to play a weekend series during Finals week (which stinks). This year the NCAA schedule starts a week later, with Minute Maid the 2nd weekend of the regular season instead of the 4th, as it was last year.

(10-04-2015 04:31 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(10-04-2015 04:09 PM)BufflOwl Wrote:  I think there's a decent chance this year's Arizona, ECU and UCF teams struggle about as much as last year's Arizona, Stanford and UT. I could be wrong and they're and certainly not supposed to. However, I'm not sold they'll be all that much better and therefore could have the same negative impact on RPI.

Along with the RPI ramifications, it's a bit disheartening to see former conference mates now acting as our RPI boosting out of conference competition. That kind of just rubs salt in the wounds of dealing with the new CUSA.

Either way, back to Minute Maid is great and should help our RPI. I'm glad we were able to get a conference opponent to move their schedule around to accommodate that tournament. I believe that's what we were told is the reason we didn't play in it last year.

We didn't get a conference opponent to move their schedule around and, as a consequence, we have to play a weekend series during Finals week (which stinks). This year the NCAA schedule starts a week later, with Minute Maid the 2nd weekend of the regular season instead of the 4th, as it was last year.

Yeah that does stink. So just to clarify, we won't have a dead week this year?

(10-04-2015 04:39 PM)BufflOwl Wrote:  

(10-04-2015 04:31 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(10-04-2015 04:09 PM)BufflOwl Wrote:  I think there's a decent chance this year's Arizona, ECU and UCF teams struggle about as much as last year's Arizona, Stanford and UT. I could be wrong and they're and certainly not supposed to. However, I'm not sold they'll be all that much better and therefore could have the same negative impact on RPI.

Along with the RPI ramifications, it's a bit disheartening to see former conference mates now acting as our RPI boosting out of conference competition. That kind of just rubs salt in the wounds of dealing with the new CUSA.

Either way, back to Minute Maid is great and should help our RPI. I'm glad we were able to get a conference opponent to move their schedule around to accommodate that tournament. I believe that's what we were told is the reason we didn't play in it last year.

We didn't get a conference opponent to move their schedule around and, as a consequence, we have to play a weekend series during Finals week (which stinks). This year the NCAA schedule starts a week later, with Minute Maid the 2nd weekend of the regular season instead of the 4th, as it was last year.

Yeah that does stink. So just to clarify, we won't have a dead week this year?

For the baseball team, that's my understanding. CUSA leaves it up to us to try to get one of our conference mates to start the CUSA slate a week earlier. Last year, charlotte obliged. No one did this year.

very interesting. Probably something to keep an eye on for the year. I'm pretty disappointed the conference, or some powers that be, couldn't step in and align an off weekend over that time as its been for as long as any of us can remember. Oh well I guess.

(10-04-2015 04:46 PM)BufflOwl Wrote:  very interesting. Probably something to keep an eye on for the year. I'm pretty disappointed the conference, or some powers that be, couldn't step in and align an off weekend over that time as its been for as long as any of us can remember. Oh well I guess.

Not sure why it would be the conference's job to make Rice play the same schedule as any other team.

That's fair. It might have just worked out that way in the past by coincidence. I believe Rice University used to have a rule when I was there that the student-athletes couldn't participate in athletic competitions during the dead period days around finals. Occasionally there was conflict with that which required some approval, but for the most part the conference or opposing schools respected that and simply scheduled the Rice bye week during that time. Granted at the time we had an odd number of baseball teams so it wasn't that challenging. I believe my friend told me the conference also worked to align home series during graduation whenever possible. That's how for all my years, and I believe the years since, Rice baseball has had a weekend off at finals and a weekend home series during graduation.

I'm sure not all that info is 100% correct and I'm sure whatever could have been done for that to continue was done this year. I just find it interesting that the past couple years have contained scheduling anamolies from the previous 10 or so years.

(03-13-2004 06:36 PM)OneHeartBeat Wrote:  jarr
ellis is redshirting this year but has been practicing with the for the majority of the year. from all accounts he is head and shoulders above our current post players (not too difficult to believe), and has made great strides with his footwork and improved his defense. Barring any offseason problems he should be back and better than ever!

Go Cards!
OneHeartBeat

There is another way of looking at it: we don't have Temple, etc. to weigh down the RPI