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Update: there will be no press conference at #Rice to announce a hire today, but the athletic department is “working on plans at this time.” Sounds like it should come in the next couple days
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Update: there will be no press conference at #Rice to announce a hire today, but the athletic department is “working on plans at this time.” Sounds like it should come in the next couple days
Announcements and timeline are getting vaguer. This is not good.
There is an aircraft chartered between SJC and HOU slated to arrive at 1:24 PM... but nothing out of Palo Alto, where I would assume they would fly out if chartering a jet. Haha
(12-05-2017 11:12 AM)Antarius Wrote: There is an aircraft chartered between SJC and HOU slated to arrive at 1:24 PM... but nothing out of Palo Alto, where I would assume they would fly out if chartering a jet. Haha
Don’t remember Palo Alto having an airport. Always flew out of sf.
Very different tone to this thread vs Roper thread.
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Update: there will be no press conference at #Rice to announce a hire today, but the athletic department is “working on plans at this time.” Sounds like it should come in the next couple days
Announcements and timeline are getting vaguer. This is not good.
But I like the call by JK. Reminds me of the Rhodes hire. Will most likely have the same problem here - any success and he’ll be gone in 1-2 years...unless a major commitment is made. And maybe some of the details possibly holding up the deal have to do with that. Bloomgren has said before that when he finally makes the jump to HC, it has to be the right opportunity. But sounds like a great hire![/align]
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2017 11:20 AM by Buho00.)
I think this points to “an agreement in principle” situation....working on the fine details within the contract and other issues. Could it blow up? Yes but if this is the case I am OK with taking the time to make sure both sides are happy.
If this is true JK’s national stature jumps immediately. Getting Rhoades, Langley, and Bloomgren to come to Rice is startling. All 3 while not necessarily recognized by everyone as top potential hires, they certainly were by inside experts.
(12-05-2017 11:19 AM)Buho00 Wrote: But I like the call by JK. Reminds me of the Rhodes hire. Will most likely have the same problem here - any success and he’ll be gone in 1-2 years...unless a major commitment is made. And maybe some of the details possibly holding up the deal have to do with that. Bloomgren has said before that when he finally makes the jump to HC, it has to be the right opportunity. But sounds like a great hire!
I am with you. I like the hire because I don't think someone of Bloomgren's stature comes to Rice unless he feels like Rice University and Rice Athletics are committed to making Rice Football successful. So to me, it is as much about demonstrating Rice's commitment level as it is about Bloomgren himself.
Antarius - should we still fold the program, or do we have a shot?
Hope he brings in a few Rice guys onto his staff. Mehringer and Casey are of obvious interest. Justin Hill is the RB coach at Tulsa and Jaylon Finner is already on staff as a grad assistant. How do we introduce him to nightowl24 and ruowls? Can't hurt to interview them and keep a couple fans satiated.
I now notice that he is followed on twitter by Sam Glaesmann, defensive quality control coach Joseph Foteh, and .... Holder_Owl_84 started following him recently. I believe all before the tweets today connecting him to Rice.
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I like a offense dominated coaching style. A defense oriented team is wrong in a conference like CUSA.
you may try defense style if you have all kinds of talents at all levels. That's not the case for us, we will only have some talent on some aspect in the future, so we should focus on offense
(12-05-2017 11:29 AM)cr11owl Wrote: Well he knows what he is getting himself into because he saw us play this season firsthand.
And I think as a result of that, he knows the talent here is better than the record was. Having seen us up close, I'm guessing he believes there are ways to get a bunch more wins out of this talent.
He knows we play in CUSA. He’s seen what Lane Kiffen did in just one year at FAU (with former regime’s players). He knows that Bailiff won the conference. But he must think it’s a good fit, and coming from Stanford it makes a lot of sense. We can get Stanford’s associate AD and associate HC, but to be the Stanford of the G5, we need a bigger commitment from the university. About time Rice tries that. An experiment worth doing even if abandonded in a couple of years - invest in football and see how academic side benefits, or not.
