(09-24-2016 11:14 PM)texowl2 Wrote:  Which brings me to my second observation. If I go to one more event where someone in the admin or the athletics department talks about what a great supporter Leebron has been of athletics, I may just go berserk. Perpetuating that lie is akin to the emperor's new clothes and reminds me of the old saying that those with money or smarts don't need to talk about it. It is under Leebron's admin that the disaster of Rice Athletics has greatly accelerated along the path of disaster that started in 1967 and took a major blow in 1995. Getting people to pay for buildings as tuition explodes ever higher and rankings and prestige falls is not enhancing the university. But he is a resume builder much like CDC. As much as I hate to congratulate UH for anything, you have to give them credit (and TCU) of working a real plan and putting their money where their mouth is. The worse thing I heard at the ceremony is how this was almost done 5 years ago. That check should have been written long ago if there was true support.

Leebron isn't Gordon Gee. But he is light years better than his predecessors when it comes to supporting athletics. Tudor wouldn't have gotten done under any of his predecessors. I think those in the athletic department who speak highly of him do so because they remember just how bad it could be.

I totally agree that both UH and TCU have tended to business better in their athletic programs than we did. But the gap has narrowed under Leebron. It really has. That it is still so wide is because of how wide it used to be.