Rather have fish and chips with malt vinegar.

Not as funny as an old Andy Griffith comedy skit What it is football where a hillbilly sees football for the first time. One example is that he mistakes the officials for convicts.

Maybe when the QB is taking the ball under center he is sodomizing the center so maybe that is homoerotic.

(11-30-2016 07:32 AM)MerseyOwl Wrote:  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 10:08 AM)illiniowl Wrote:  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?

As MOB Dm 2005-07, I can say this is the case.

(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.

Why do you think it cost anything? The author says that Palo Alto is her hometown, so presumably she was there for Thanksgiving break on her own dime. With a press pass, her game admission and game meal were free.

You have to give her credit: the teddy bear line was right on!! Hilarious!!

(11-30-2016 10:08 AM)illiniowl Wrote:  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?

+1

(11-30-2016 10:36 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(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.

The young lady sitting opposite me, with a giant poster of Joe Biden eating an ice cream cone, and asking "what are 'downs'?", was clearly there for the possible camera time.
Those 2000 people cared that much about Baylor?
I'll split the difference with you...

The opponent makes all the difference. We had great attendance when we played Arizona when Braun was here.

(12-01-2016 06:51 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(11-30-2016 10:36 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(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.

The young lady sitting opposite me, with a giant poster of Joe Biden eating an ice cream cone, and asking "what are 'downs'?", was clearly there for the possible camera time.
Those 2000 people cared that much about Baylor?
I'll split the difference with you...

I reiterate: This is so Rice. However you want to interpret that. This is so very Rice.