OptimisticOwl
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RE: Missouri State
(03-01-2020 05:06 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote: I’ll take a series win just about anytime. Keep it going Owls!
series win and a one game winning streak.
I hope that we will see more of this kind of play.
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waltgreenberg
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RE: Missouri State
Cienfuego has been a revelation so far this year. Has had four consecutive strong outings....and show great poise getting out of jams, or falling behind in the count. He, Lazabal and Kane have clearly been our most consistent pitchers.
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Old Sammy
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RE: Missouri State
(03-01-2020 06:28 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote: Cienfuego has been a revelation so far this year. Has had four consecutive strong outings....and show great poise getting out of jams, or falling behind in the count.
Agree. High 80's fb, throws the off speed stuff consistently for strikes. BA against is .129
The plate umpire today was atrocious. Bulman struck out on two pitches that were at least 6 inches high. But he was bad for both sides. The MoSt bench was warned about complaining about ball/strike calls.
The MoSt closer was lights out. Glad we didn't have to face him with the game on the line.
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texowl2
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RE: Missouri State
(03-01-2020 12:46 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-01-2020 11:34 AM)texowl2 Wrote: One of the biggest mistakes Rice made was to sponsor/agree with UH for the SWC. Their shady ways in recruiting et al. and winning 3 of the first post-admittance FB titles led to the scandals of the 80's (not to mention TAMU hiring Jackie and SMU's lack of institutional control led by THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS), which was a key aspect to the collapse of the SWC.
I have a hard time agreeing with this. The best thing that could have happened to Rice athletics would have been developing a truly intense, competitive rivalry with UH. We are the ones who failed to hold up our end of the bargain there.
The collapse of Rice athletics didn't happen because of UH, or SMU, or aTm, or the SWC. It happened because of RICE. We did it to ourselves by absolutely refusing to field competitive teams in any sport (other than the occasional one-off) for a period of about 20 years. From men's basketball in 1970, track in 1971, and tennis in 1970-72, to a women's cross country in 1994 (per Wikipedia; is anybody but me angry that RiceOwls.com no longer has easy links such information? Maybe we are just ashamed of our history), Rice did not win a single conference championship in any sport. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Unfortunately, that was the same 20 years when intercollegiate athletics evolved into a big business. We missed the boat--badly. Whether we can climb back into the boat or not is questionable, but clearly not easy.
No doubt Rice did it to Rice. What is really distressing is that every time a clear message was sent, be it Arkansas leaving, the SWC breaking up, the collapse of the big WAC, the first flight from CUSA, nothing was done other than acting like Kevin Bacon in Animal House and saying "remain calm, all is well". The last message-the most recent flight from CUSA is likely the final message.
Apologies to parliamentarians for continuing the hijack of this thread (and perhaps causing it), just the whole mess continues to be distressing...……..
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gmath
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RE: Missouri State
Bored ready these long posts. I’m instituting a 15 word post limit unless it’s Haiku.
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Owl 69/70/75
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RE: Missouri State
2 out of 3, a good weekend, let's build on that.
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NYNightOwl
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RE: Missouri State
(03-01-2020 10:12 PM)gmath Wrote: Bored ready these long posts. I’m instituting a 15 word post limit unless it’s Haiku.
Not easy to get 16 words in a Haiku.
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DFW Owl
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RE: Missouri State
(03-01-2020 10:12 PM)gmath Wrote: Bored ready these long posts. I’m instituting a 15 word post limit unless it’s Haiku.
How about signatures that aren't 25 lines long?
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Missouri State
(03-01-2020 10:52 PM)NYNightOwl Wrote: (03-01-2020 10:12 PM)gmath Wrote: Bored ready these long posts. I’m instituting a 15 word post limit unless it’s Haiku.
Not easy to get 16 words in a Haiku.
No, it’s not that hard.
Let me show you how it’s done:
Just use short words. Dude!
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RE: Missouri State
(03-02-2020 05:47 AM)owl at the moon Wrote: (03-01-2020 10:52 PM)NYNightOwl Wrote: (03-01-2020 10:12 PM)gmath Wrote: Bored ready these long posts. I’m instituting a 15 word post limit unless it’s Haiku.
Not easy to get 16 words in a Haiku.
No, it’s not that hard.
Let me show you how it’s done:
Just use short words. Dude!
I'll continue hijacking this thread by once again making the pedantic note that this is not haiku. By definition, haiku is about the natural world, such as the seasons or flora or fauna or landscapes, kind of like this:
Spring has now arrived
Bats hit balls into the field
Owl pitching needs help
or
Rice baseball tumbled
off the top of the mountain
Now beat the dead horse!
These have references to the season and nature and fauna, so it's haiku. If it's just three lines of five, seven, and five syllables with no references to the natural world then it's senryu.
You may now resume your discussion of the series against Missouri State. Thank you!
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RE: Missouri State
(03-02-2020 04:11 PM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote: (03-02-2020 05:47 AM)owl at the moon Wrote: (03-01-2020 10:52 PM)NYNightOwl Wrote: (03-01-2020 10:12 PM)gmath Wrote: Bored ready these long posts. I’m instituting a 15 word post limit unless it’s Haiku.
Not easy to get 16 words in a Haiku.
No, it’s not that hard.
Let me show you how it’s done:
Just use short words. Dude!
I'll continue hijacking this thread by once again making the pedantic note that this is not haiku. By definition, haiku is about the natural world, such as the seasons or flora or fauna or landscapes, kind of like this:
Spring has now arrived
Bats hit balls into the field
Owl pitching needs help
or
Rice baseball tumbled
off the top of the mountain
Now beat the dead horse!
These have references to the season and nature and fauna, so it's haiku. If it's just three lines of five, seven, and five syllables with no references to the natural world then it's senryu.
You may now resume your discussion of the series against Missouri State. Thank you!
The last 3 posts are the epitome of Rice sports message board posts. Well done!
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Tomball Owl
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RE: Missouri State
How about...
Glory days are gone
Owls baseball needs a rebirth
Let’s hope it’s Bragga
Hey, I was a Chem E major, what do you expext?
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Missouri State
This haiku’s so sweet
And also as natural
As Splenda claims to be
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RE: Missouri State
(03-02-2020 04:11 PM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote: Now beat the dead horse!
This could perhaps be the unofficial motto of this board.
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Missouri State
Utilization
Of nanotechnology
Summarizes wins
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Ourland
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RE: Missouri State
(03-01-2020 08:15 PM)texowl2 Wrote: (03-01-2020 12:46 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-01-2020 11:34 AM)texowl2 Wrote: One of the biggest mistakes Rice made was to sponsor/agree with UH for the SWC. Their shady ways in recruiting et al. and winning 3 of the first post-admittance FB titles led to the scandals of the 80's (not to mention TAMU hiring Jackie and SMU's lack of institutional control led by THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS), which was a key aspect to the collapse of the SWC.
I have a hard time agreeing with this. The best thing that could have happened to Rice athletics would have been developing a truly intense, competitive rivalry with UH. We are the ones who failed to hold up our end of the bargain there.
The collapse of Rice athletics didn't happen because of UH, or SMU, or aTm, or the SWC. It happened because of RICE. We did it to ourselves by absolutely refusing to field competitive teams in any sport (other than the occasional one-off) for a period of about 20 years. From men's basketball in 1970, track in 1971, and tennis in 1970-72, to a women's cross country in 1994 (per Wikipedia; is anybody but me angry that RiceOwls.com no longer has easy links such information? Maybe we are just ashamed of our history), Rice did not win a single conference championship in any sport. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Unfortunately, that was the same 20 years when intercollegiate athletics evolved into a big business. We missed the boat--badly. Whether we can climb back into the boat or not is questionable, but clearly not easy.
No doubt Rice did it to Rice. What is really distressing is that every time a clear message was sent, be it Arkansas leaving, the SWC breaking up, the collapse of the big WAC, the first flight from CUSA, nothing was done other than acting like Kevin Bacon in Animal House and saying "remain calm, all is well". The last message-the most recent flight from CUSA is likely the final message.
Apologies to parliamentarians for continuing the hijack of this thread (and perhaps causing it), just the whole mess continues to be distressing...……..
Don't apologize. It's the only thing to talk about. All of our teams are awful. Even women's basketball has taken a step back. There's nothing positive to discuss.
Rice doesn't value anything about athletics. They'd end the football program if they could, and place us in a small basketball league.
Rice's indifference towards athletics is real, and it's deep. It's a university with a $6 billion endowment that funds athletics with pocket change, and their probably proud of that fact. The BOT are a bunch of Rice pawns. They make me sick.
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RE: Missouri State
(03-01-2020 12:46 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-01-2020 11:34 AM)texowl2 Wrote: One of the biggest mistakes Rice made was to sponsor/agree with UH for the SWC. Their shady ways in recruiting et al. and winning 3 of the first post-admittance FB titles led to the scandals of the 80's (not to mention TAMU hiring Jackie and SMU's lack of institutional control led by THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS), which was a key aspect to the collapse of the SWC.
I have a hard time agreeing with this. The best thing that could have happened to Rice athletics would have been developing a truly intense, competitive rivalry with UH. We are the ones who failed to hold up our end of the bargain there.
The collapse of Rice athletics didn't happen because of UH, or SMU, or aTm, or the SWC. It happened because of RICE. We did it to ourselves by absolutely refusing to field competitive teams in any sport (other than the occasional one-off) for a period of about 20 years. From men's basketball in 1970, track in 1971, and tennis in 1970-72, to a women's cross country in 1994 (per Wikipedia; is anybody but me angry that RiceOwls.com no longer has easy links such information? Maybe we are just ashamed of our history), Rice did not win a single conference championship in any sport. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Unfortunately, that was the same 20 years when intercollegiate athletics evolved into a big business. We missed the boat--badly. Whether we can climb back into the boat or not is questionable, but clearly not easy.
Agree. The only glimmer of hope I see is in the possible breakup of the Big12. We could still end up in an AAC consisting of...
WEST.....................................EAST
SMU.......................................Navy
Tulsa......................................Temple
Rice........................................Marshall
Louisiana Tech......................ECU
Tulane....................................South Florida
Southern Mississippi............UAB
...providing that UH, Memphis, Cincinnati, and UCF go to a revamped Big12.
(This post was last modified: 03-03-2020 01:45 AM by Ourland.)
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Owl 69/70/75
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RE: Missouri State
(03-03-2020 01:40 AM)Ourland Wrote: (03-01-2020 12:46 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-01-2020 11:34 AM)texowl2 Wrote: One of the biggest mistakes Rice made was to sponsor/agree with UH for the SWC. Their shady ways in recruiting et al. and winning 3 of the first post-admittance FB titles led to the scandals of the 80's (not to mention TAMU hiring Jackie and SMU's lack of institutional control led by THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS), which was a key aspect to the collapse of the SWC.
I have a hard time agreeing with this. The best thing that could have happened to Rice athletics would have been developing a truly intense, competitive rivalry with UH. We are the ones who failed to hold up our end of the bargain there.
The collapse of Rice athletics didn't happen because of UH, or SMU, or aTm, or the SWC. It happened because of RICE. We did it to ourselves by absolutely refusing to field competitive teams in any sport (other than the occasional one-off) for a period of about 20 years. From men's basketball in 1970, track in 1971, and tennis in 1970-72, to a women's cross country in 1994 (per Wikipedia; is anybody but me angry that RiceOwls.com no longer has easy links such information? Maybe we are just ashamed of our history), Rice did not win a single conference championship in any sport. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Unfortunately, that was the same 20 years when intercollegiate athletics evolved into a big business. We missed the boat--badly. Whether we can climb back into the boat or not is questionable, but clearly not easy.
Agree. The only glimmer of hope I see is in the possible breakup of the Big12. We could still end up in an AAC consisting of...
WEST.....................................EAST
SMU.......................................Navy
Tulsa......................................Temple
Rice........................................Marshall
Louisiana Tech......................ECU
Tulane....................................South Florida
Southern Mississippi............UAB
...providing that UH, Memphis, Cincinnati, and UCF go to a revamped Big12.
That would be the upside. But we're not going to get there going 2-11, 3-9 in CUSA football, or landing in Pod 3 in CUSA men's basketball or having a losing record in baseball. And there needs to be some urgency about it. I think the witching hour is 2024 when the XII TV contract runs out. I think you see OU and Okie State to the SEC and Texas and Kansas to the B1G, and the rest of the XII scrambling to put something together, probably involving the four schools you list. So we have something under 4 years to get back onto some kind of reasonable track. Is it doable? Yes. Are we doing what we need to do to make it happen? Not visibly.
(This post was last modified: 03-03-2020 09:54 AM by Owl 69/70/75.)
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OptimisticOwl
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RE: Missouri State
(03-03-2020 09:53 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-03-2020 01:40 AM)Ourland Wrote: (03-01-2020 12:46 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-01-2020 11:34 AM)texowl2 Wrote: One of the biggest mistakes Rice made was to sponsor/agree with UH for the SWC. Their shady ways in recruiting et al. and winning 3 of the first post-admittance FB titles led to the scandals of the 80's (not to mention TAMU hiring Jackie and SMU's lack of institutional control led by THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS), which was a key aspect to the collapse of the SWC.
I have a hard time agreeing with this. The best thing that could have happened to Rice athletics would have been developing a truly intense, competitive rivalry with UH. We are the ones who failed to hold up our end of the bargain there.
The collapse of Rice athletics didn't happen because of UH, or SMU, or aTm, or the SWC. It happened because of RICE. We did it to ourselves by absolutely refusing to field competitive teams in any sport (other than the occasional one-off) for a period of about 20 years. From men's basketball in 1970, track in 1971, and tennis in 1970-72, to a women's cross country in 1994 (per Wikipedia; is anybody but me angry that RiceOwls.com no longer has easy links such information? Maybe we are just ashamed of our history), Rice did not win a single conference championship in any sport. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Unfortunately, that was the same 20 years when intercollegiate athletics evolved into a big business. We missed the boat--badly. Whether we can climb back into the boat or not is questionable, but clearly not easy.
Agree. The only glimmer of hope I see is in the possible breakup of the Big12. We could still end up in an AAC consisting of...
WEST.....................................EAST
SMU.......................................Navy
Tulsa......................................Temple
Rice........................................Marshall
Louisiana Tech......................ECU
Tulane....................................South Florida
Southern Mississippi............UAB
...providing that UH, Memphis, Cincinnati, and UCF go to a revamped Big12.
That would be the upside. But we're not going to get there going 2-11, 3-9 in CUSA football, or landing in Pod 3 in CUSA men's basketball or having a losing record in baseball. And there needs to be some urgency about it. I think the witching hour is 2024 when the XII TV contract runs out. I think you see OU and Okie State to the SEC and Texas and Kansas to the B1G, and the rest of the XII scrambling to put something together, probably involving the four schools you list. So we have something under 4 years to get back onto some kind of reasonable track. Is it doable? Yes. Are we doing what we need to do to make it happen? Not visibly.
We have needed urgency and a plan for decades. I think we were pretty aimless and complacent even back in the Neely days, which we both remember. When the ship sank, we jumped in a lifeboat. Then the lifeboat sank, and we grabbed a cushion. Now the cushion is becoming waterlogged. That is urgency.
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RE: Missouri State
(03-03-2020 09:53 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-03-2020 01:40 AM)Ourland Wrote: (03-01-2020 12:46 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-01-2020 11:34 AM)texowl2 Wrote: One of the biggest mistakes Rice made was to sponsor/agree with UH for the SWC. Their shady ways in recruiting et al. and winning 3 of the first post-admittance FB titles led to the scandals of the 80's (not to mention TAMU hiring Jackie and SMU's lack of institutional control led by THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS), which was a key aspect to the collapse of the SWC.
I have a hard time agreeing with this. The best thing that could have happened to Rice athletics would have been developing a truly intense, competitive rivalry with UH. We are the ones who failed to hold up our end of the bargain there.
The collapse of Rice athletics didn't happen because of UH, or SMU, or aTm, or the SWC. It happened because of RICE. We did it to ourselves by absolutely refusing to field competitive teams in any sport (other than the occasional one-off) for a period of about 20 years. From men's basketball in 1970, track in 1971, and tennis in 1970-72, to a women's cross country in 1994 (per Wikipedia; is anybody but me angry that RiceOwls.com no longer has easy links such information? Maybe we are just ashamed of our history), Rice did not win a single conference championship in any sport. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Unfortunately, that was the same 20 years when intercollegiate athletics evolved into a big business. We missed the boat--badly. Whether we can climb back into the boat or not is questionable, but clearly not easy.
Agree. The only glimmer of hope I see is in the possible breakup of the Big12. We could still end up in an AAC consisting of...
WEST.....................................EAST
SMU.......................................Navy
Tulsa......................................Temple
Rice........................................Marshall
Louisiana Tech......................ECU
Tulane....................................South Florida
Southern Mississippi............UAB
...providing that UH, Memphis, Cincinnati, and UCF go to a revamped Big12.
That would be the upside. But we're not going to get there going 2-11, 3-9 in CUSA football, or landing in Pod 3 in CUSA men's basketball or having a losing record in baseball. And there needs to be some urgency about it. I think the witching hour is 2024 when the XII TV contract runs out. I think you see OU and Okie State to the SEC and Texas and Kansas to the B1G, and the rest of the XII scrambling to put something together, probably involving the four schools you list. So we have something under 4 years to get back onto some kind of reasonable track. Is it doable? Yes. Are we doing what we need to do to make it happen? Not visibly.
sad but the bold has been evident for many many years. I never forget a conversation I had with Mike Pede 15 or so years ago how they had cut his promotional budget since they were solely focused on spending and not net. I still think Texas will go to the PAC as I don't think that the B1G wants to deal with their ego, thus either K State or Iowa St. PAC will get UT, BYU, and 2 from Baylor, Tech, TCU, Boise, AFA, or Colorado St. BIG 12 3.0 will be like the rest-second status.
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