(06-11-2021 08:17 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Program on the rise that made CUSA tournament to program in decline that failed to make CUSA tournament is not a major step up.

You can call it a small step up based on history, or a lateral step, or even a step down based on potential. If I were Patrick Hallmark, Rice under the current administration is not where I would choose to try to make my coaching splash.

Geez, Chip-- do tell how UTSA is on the rise? Their record was not much better than Rice's this year. Most people in the college baseball community would consider Rice a step up from UTSA. And you're leaving out just one key point-- the Hallmark family-- both Patrick and his wife-- bleed Rice blue & gray. One more thing, as I mentioned before, baseball is one Rice sports program that has the resources-- both through it's budget, the RBI Club and the baseball endowment.