http://www.ricethresher.org/article/2016...o-football

Well I don't think I've ever read anything Ricier. That is the absolute Ricest.

Sigh.

Sportsball?

And the point of that article was???

And that's who the Thresher gets as sports editor. Unconventional wisdom...

In the UK tripe is normally served with vinegar.

And no I don't eat tripe. Maybe it's homoerotic to do so or homoerotic to avoid.

(I'm sure the Thresher writer would find the platoon system in the armed forces veiled homoerotic as well.)

My question is who footed the bill to have this 'individual' cover the game. No doubt money well spent.

(11-30-2016 07:32 AM)MerseyOwl Wrote:  My question is who footed the bill to have this 'individual' cover the game. No doubt money well spent.

That's a few hundred bucks that could have generated a greater ROI if invested in football recruiting.

It's supposed to be funny - lighten up. If you all actually read the article's title, you would grasp the fact that she is the editor in chief or the newspaper, not the sports editor. I think the Thresher made its opinion on Bailiff very clear in October when they called for his firing.

Besides, a joke of a football team deserves jokes of articles anyway. Just wait until they let the Backpage editors cover football full time.

I guess the Thresher brand of humour these days is just too sophisticated for me...

"The halftime show inexplicably began with a group of small children playing flag football, presumably because they’re a bunch of effing snowflakes who can’t handle the real deal."

Oh I see it now. That is funny.

"...and Hillary Clinton (who symbolizes Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey if the universe is functioning properly) preserved the status quo."

Lighten Up!

Haha pretty funny stuff

The percentage of Rice students who dismiss Rice athletics as all so much silly sportsball was not insignificant in my day (late '80s) but I would bet the farm that it has gone up substantially since then. Aided and abetted no doubt by 20+ years of Rice trying to put lipstick on a pig and ask its students to rally around the idea of competition with first San Jose State and New Mexico, then Memphis and East Carolina, and now the utter coup de grace that is CUSA. Rice has not taken athletics seriously for a long time so why expect the student body to do otherwise?

So a supposedly highly intelligent Rice student drops the f bomb in print for all the world to see and repeat. Not a lot of common sense, if what you hear from employers studying your body of work through internet and social media search affects your hiriing.

So does a supposedly highly intelligent Rice student with no commmon sense equal a supposedly highly qualified Rice football team that does not win?

I will be dropping my contributions to the Rice annual fund until Rice produces a student capable of writing without f bombs to get their point across.

Also if a person has not even attempted to go see what football is all about-- win, lose or draw-- you have a problem.
Weanies have always demanded that athletes be a part of the College system and student body, but when it is their time to step up.....................

We consistently have a ~300 students for basketball games. That's 8-9% of the student body.. Not terrible.

For football, there were close to 2,000 students at the Baylor game. 45-50% student attendance is nothing to be ashamed of... And that's what happens when we play teams that students care about.

Having traveled extensively with the crack Thresher/'Nile sports reporting and photography team in the later '70s and early '80s, this article is no surprise to me, and I find it amusing.

Does it say that the Thresher or Rice paid for her trip?
She may have gone home for Thanksgiving, and went to the game because it was in the neighborhood.

We paid our own way, driving all over Texas (got to see Hambone's record-setting field goal), as well as Baton Rouge, NOLA, Columbia MO, Minneapolis, Colorado Springs, and Bloomington IN.

Wish she'd watched both of the LSJUMB's shows.
I would have.
Oh... who am I kidding? I'd have been in them.
The MOB's drum major was in them...
There is code-sharing in the scatter band community.

Question: when the Rice cheerleaders lead cheers, does anyone follow (actually cheer with them)?
There have been games where there were far more cheerleaders than students in the stands.

(11-30-2016 10:17 AM)ETx Owl Wrote:  So a supposedly highly intelligent Rice student drops the f bomb in print for all the world to see and repeat. Not a lot of common sense, if what you hear from employers studying your body of work through internet and social media search affects your hiriing.

So does a supposedly highly intelligent Rice student with no commmon sense equal a supposedly highly qualified Rice football team that does not win?

I will be dropping my contributions to the Rice annual fund until Rice produces a student capable of writing without f bombs to get their point across.

Also if a person has not even attempted to go see what football is all about-- win, lose or draw-- you have a problem.
Weanies have always demanded that athletes be a part of the College system and student body, but when it is their time to step up.....................

Is this post satire? Because the original article was certainly satirical. I enjoyed it.

I'm as upset (if not more) about the announcement made yesterday but GET A GRIP, people.

(11-30-2016 10:19 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  We consistently have a ~300 students for basketball games. That's 8-9% of the student body.. Not terrible.

For football, there were close to 2,000 students at the Baylor game. 45-50% student attendance is nothing to be ashamed of... And that's what happens when we play teams that students care about.

That's what happens when the game is nationally televised.
It wasn't about the opponent.
It was about being on TV.

(11-30-2016 10:31 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(11-30-2016 10:19 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  We consistently have a ~300 students for basketball games. That's 8-9% of the student body.. Not terrible.

For football, there were close to 2,000 students at the Baylor game. 45-50% student attendance is nothing to be ashamed of... And that's what happens when we play teams that students care about.

That's what happens when the game is nationally televised.
It wasn't about the opponent.
It was about being on TV.

Disagree.

Nobody gave a rat's ass if it was on TV.

We had our best student basketball attendance at the Oregon State game last year. Game wasn't on TV, but it wasn't a P5 opponent.

To give another data point, in 2015, we played LA Tech on FS1 (national TV) and had poor student attendance.

Good piece; I chuckled.

(11-30-2016 10:29 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Does it say that the Thresher or Rice paid for her trip?
She may have gone home for Thanksgiving, and went to the game because it was in the neighborhood.

According to her Facebook profile, Ms. Haghdoost attended Palo Alto High School, which is across the street (El Camino Real) from Stanford's stadium.

(She also represented the Republican Party in a political debate during senior year at Paly.)