... although our home game is at Reliant/NRG Stadium (home of the Texans).

https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/stat...2354326528


Mark Berman ‏@MarkBermanFox26 · 10m10 minutes ago  Houston, TX

.@RiceFootball will play @LSUfootball at NRG Stadium in 2020 and in Baton Rouge in 2024.

Nice get!!!!!!

That a nice piece of scheduling work by your AD. Well done!

Awesome! Nicely done!

Very nice agreement. Now go kick some Tiger tail!

Should have demanded a 2-1 lol

Great pick up Rice!

Great Move By Rice. Some years ago, MT was able to get Louisville to schedule a "Home and Home", with our Home game played at the Titans' stadium in Nashville. It was awesome for publicity and our Music City Alums. I am convince Rice will reap some real benefits playing their "Home Game" at the Texans' stadium.

Rice's 2 largest crowds since joining C-USA have been at Reliant, against Texas. One game drew over 70,000 and stands as the highest attended game ever hosted by a C-USA school.

Wow, awesome! Congrats Rice! I hope I can at least watch it on TV, if not take a trip to Houston to cheer on the Owls!

(08-02-2016 01:34 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Rice's 2 largest crowds since joining C-USA have been at Reliant, against Texas. One game drew over 70,000 and stands as the highest attended game ever hosted by a C-USA school.

WKU never got to count attendance from games played at a alternative stadium (Titans). We had 40k plus then 68K at our last game and everyone says it don't count ....lol

Also Congrats!

(08-02-2016 03:26 PM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 01:34 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Rice's 2 largest crowds since joining C-USA have been at Reliant, against Texas. One game drew over 70,000 and stands as the highest attended game ever hosted by a C-USA school.

WKU never got to count attendance from games played at a alternative stadium (Titans). We had 40k plus then 68K at our last game and everyone says it don't count ....lol

I don't generally think much of teams bragging on neutral-site attendance. NRG is about 2 miles away from the Rice campus, closer than UAB is to Legion Field.

(08-02-2016 03:29 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 03:26 PM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 01:34 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Rice's 2 largest crowds since joining C-USA have been at Reliant, against Texas. One game drew over 70,000 and stands as the highest attended game ever hosted by a C-USA school.

WKU never got to count attendance from games played at a alternative stadium (Titans). We had 40k plus then 68K at our last game and everyone says it don't count ....lol

I don't generally think much of teams bragging on neutral-site attendance. NRG is about 2 miles away from the Rice campus, closer than UAB is to Legion Field.

Yeah, unlike Rice @ NRG, I doubt if WKU was designated the home team when they played at Nashville.

For years, when Ole Miss had a crappy little stadium, they would play Tennessee in Memphis and it would be designated an Ole Miss home game, with the UT home game in Knoxville. I don't think that was the case with WKU with those games.

Anyway, hope Rice kicks their butt at home and away.

Did I read correctly that Rice was paying LSU $3.5 Million for that game?

That's what multiple sources are saying:

Quote:LSU will get a $3.5 million payout to play the Owls Sept. 19, 2020, in NRG Stadium, a source close to LSU said.

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2016/0..._sche.html

Ouch!

Well, hopefully the game is sold out - and then some - and Rice makes some bucks off of it. Wouldn't make sense otherwise.

Usually the money for games at NRG comes from the NRG complex itself (or the group that hosts events there). They obviously control the gate and concessions. At least that's been the case in the past.

I'm curious to see if Rice is getting anything to play there (has to be something but how much?).

(08-02-2016 03:29 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 03:26 PM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 01:34 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Rice's 2 largest crowds since joining C-USA have been at Reliant, against Texas. One game drew over 70,000 and stands as the highest attended game ever hosted by a C-USA school.

WKU never got to count attendance from games played at a alternative stadium (Titans). We had 40k plus then 68K at our last game and everyone says it don't count ....lol

I don't generally think much of teams bragging on neutral-site attendance. NRG is about 2 miles away from the Rice campus, closer than UAB is to Legion Field.

It will take Rice about as long to get to that game as it took Western ...45 minutes. Took us 25 minutes to go 2 mile last time we were in Houston.

The Western/uk game was a Western home game played on a NF...the field had Western's logo on it

Great get for Rice

(08-02-2016 03:50 PM)Artifice Wrote:  Did I read correctly that Rice was paying LSU $3.5 Million for that game?

That's what multiple sources are saying:

Quote:LSU will get a $3.5 million payout to play the Owls Sept. 19, 2020, in NRG Stadium, a source close to LSU said.

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2016/0..._sche.html

Ouch!

As Fort Bend Owl says above, this is probably a payment from NRG stadium directly to LSU. NRG must be expecting high demand for luxury suites and stadium concessions.

Will this game be part of the C-USA television package?

(08-02-2016 10:52 AM)Orange County Owl Wrote:  ... although our home game is at Reliant/NRG Stadium (home of the Texans).

https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/stat...2354326528


Mark Berman ‏@MarkBermanFox26 · 10m10 minutes ago  Houston, TX

.@RiceFootball will play @LSUfootball at NRG Stadium in 2020 and in Baton Rouge in 2024.

LSU has an enormous alumni presence in Houston and will outnumber the Owl fans at the game there by 3-1 and in Baton Rouge by 100-1.

(08-02-2016 03:43 PM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 03:29 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 03:26 PM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 01:34 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Rice's 2 largest crowds since joining C-USA have been at Reliant, against Texas. One game drew over 70,000 and stands as the highest attended game ever hosted by a C-USA school.

WKU never got to count attendance from games played at a alternative stadium (Titans). We had 40k plus then 68K at our last game and everyone says it don't count ....lol

I don't generally think much of teams bragging on neutral-site attendance. NRG is about 2 miles away from the Rice campus, closer than UAB is to Legion Field.

Yeah, unlike Rice @ NRG, I doubt if WKU was designated the home team when they played at Nashville.

For years, when Ole Miss had a crappy little stadium, they would play Tennessee in Memphis and it would be designated an Ole Miss home game, with the UT home game in Knoxville. I don't think that was the case with WKU with those games.

Anyway, hope Rice kicks their butt at home and away.

We was the home team. It was a home home series but needed a bigger stadium because of attendance