(02-13-2023 02:19 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Is there anyone on this Board that honestly believes the right group of Parliamentarians couldn’t do a better job of running Rice Athletics? I certainly don’t see them doing any worse than the last 50-60 years. At least they are proposing news ideas rather than repeating the things that haven’t worked at Rice in decades.

I'd certainly opine it seems reasonable to agree that a Parliament of us posting Owls would be unlikely to be able to do much worse for Rice Athletics than has been done for the past 50-60 years, at least in the big sports, except baseball under OG (and I'm rooting for Chito)...I've opted many times for significant investment in better coaching hires commensurate with the top of D-I pay at the big schools since we haven't seemed to get much return from what we have spent over the years anyway, and we used to be right up there in the Top 20 with those schools so we have a history, and a nice big Historic Rice Stadium that it would be nice to fill up again. Maybe that's why the admin and athletic leaders don't seem to much want us to do well in football...they'd have to address the electrical issues? Certainly is Unconventional "wisdom"? Or rather, penny smart, pound foolish...