(07-23-2021 12:43 PM)RiceFootball2K5 Wrote:  

(07-23-2021 12:19 PM)illiniowl Wrote:  

(07-23-2021 12:09 PM)owl40 Wrote:  Next six-months will be the most important of JK's career.

Opportunity to be a 'have' or seal Rice's fate as 'have not'

Hope he is working hard behind-the-scenes externally and internally to secure support, $$, etc.

This is not something that ADs make happen, this happens at the president level. And we have a president who has done nothing (worse than nothing, actually) on this score his entire tenure and is now a lame duck to boot.

Exactly. I'm as anti-JK as anybody but this is not really something he can do. His job has been to get the athletic department to a position where the President can sell it (if we had one who was interested in doing that selling) to other Presidents.
The Presidents of the member schools (and the respective boards they report to) make all decisions on conference realignment. Not ADs or conference commissioners.

I want to be optimistic about Rice improving its athletic position, but I think the odds are against us because of us. As the Roman philosopher Seneca famously said “Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity" So, what have we done to prepare for this moment in time to take advantage of the opportunity? I have not seen a plan, much less a vison, from the Rice leadership on where it wants athletics to be in the future. The V2C2 hardly mentions athletics. If the PAC 12 were to call on Leebron or any Rice leader, say next week, to make our case and state our vision and plan for our athletic programs would be prepared to do so? TCU, TT and Baylor can make their case, because they had a plan and implemented that plan. I hope I am wrong, but for my school that is academically in the upper echelons we seem very ill prepared to present our vison and plan for our athletic programs to join a P-5 conference or even a good G-5 one.