(08-11-2016 06:37 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-11-2016 03:12 PM)75src Wrote:  Bobby May did one thing that saved Rice athletics-he hired Wayne Graham.
I realized one problem when I talked to former chief of accounting for Rice athletics. I mentioned the problems Rice is having in keeping up and he was proud that the athletic budget was kept down to less than 5% of the total university budget. We might have got by on the cheap in the SWC days but it has caught up with us since then.

Agree that hiring Wayne was the best move by any Rice AD between 1940 and probably now.

The problem was that the athletic budget was a net income/loss budget, so generating more revenues would have permitted higher spending, but getting any AD from Bo Hagan through Bobby (yes Bobby) to focus on revenue enhancement was well nigh impossible.