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RE: RICE FOOTBALL MID YEAR REVIEW
(10-12-2015 04:09 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote: (10-12-2015 04:00 PM)SaintsOwl Wrote: (10-12-2015 02:27 PM)Holder_Owl_84 Wrote: Serious question: Who/What is Sagarin and why does everyone in this thread reference them as though it is the holy grail of rankings?
My opinion of what a mid-season grading scale should look like:
A+ = 5-1 with a loss to Baylor (that win was NEVER going to happen)
A = 4-2 with losses to Baylor and WKU
A- = 4-2 with losses to Baylor and UT
B+ = 4-2 with losses to Baylor and someone other than UT/WKU
B = 3-3 with very respectable losses to at least 2 out of Baylor, UT, WKU
B- = 3-3 with respectable losses to Baylor & UT, a win over WKU and a let down somewhere else
C+ = 3-3 with respectable play in 1 loss, 2 blowouts, and 3 wins
C = 3-3 with 3 blowouts and 3 wins
C- = 3-3 with 3 blowouts and 3 very ugly wins
D = 2-4 however you spin it
F = 1-5 or 0-6
I consider the UT game, albeit disappointing, a respectable loss considering we were on the road down 21-0 and managed to fight back into the game. (lest we remember they were only 0-1 at that point, hardly dejected). They're still Texas, they're still deeper than we are and it showed in the 2nd half. We still beat the teams we were supposed to beat and I am a big believer of "a win's a win".
Therefore: C+
End of Season Grades from here:
A+ = 11-3, CUSA Champs, Bowl Champs
A = 10-4, CUSA Champs, Bowl Loss to P5 School
A- = 10-4, CUSA West Champs, Bowl Champs / 10-4, CUSA Champs, Bowl Loss to G5 school
B+ = 9-5, CUSA West Champs, Bowl Loss
B = 9-4, Competitive vs LA Tech, miss CUSA West by 1 game, Bowl Champs
B- = 8-5, Miss CUSA West by 1 game, Bowl Loss
C+ = 8-5, Bowl win
C = 7-6, Competitive Bowl Loss
C- = 7-6, Bowl Win
D+ = 7-6, Bad Bowl Loss
D = 6-7, Bowl Loss
D- = 6-7, Bad Bowl Loss
F = No Bowl Eligibility
I wish you were my professor when I was in school. You're a kind man.
Do you know that if we're an AD you would have been fired by most decent football programs.
I'm amazed at the complacency and willingness to settle for average. Listen we are playing crappy. Nothing personal but is a fact. Turn on the news if you live in Houston, no one cares. UH has taken over this town. We are simply irrelevant but you can sit there and convince yourself that 8-4, 7-5 are great records for Rice football. You are in the minority. Look at the attendance, no one comes out to the games. We are simply not good and hopefully we can agree that it starts at the top. That means Bailiff. If this was something new, understandable but is nine years. 9 not 1. Tell your employer that you will deliver on 75 percent of your goals and let's see how long you hang around. Disappointing to say the least but will respect your position Professor.
To further this analogy, I also expect my employer to provide me sufficient equipment to get the job done correctly and safely. So if they want to be cheap and not provide me competent subcontractors because they are too expensive, or don't want to provide me with the proper tools because they're too expensive, then they can't complain when I do the best with what I've got and it isn't 100%.
And if they do want to complain and ride my a** because they are being too short sighted, I can take my very talented and capable skills to an employer who will actually provide me with the equipment and subs I need to get the job done correctly and safely.
So while I get your point, there is a very obvious otherside of the coin where you have to look at the tools being provided to the employee. If my company needs me to drill a monitoring well to X ft, they better not hire a sub who only has the equipment to install a well to Y ft and then get mad at me when they don't hit X ft.
Stop it already Bailiff is getting paid more than the WKU coach, and has better facilities. Stop making excuses for his coaching shortcomings.
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