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RE: Rice/UH post-game thread
(09-20-2021 12:12 PM)mrbig Wrote:  Rice's current class sizes (admitting and graduating undergrads each year) are 900-1,000 undergrads. Approximately 20 of those each year are football players. That 2-3% of undergrad alumni accounts for a disproportionate share of Rice's diversity (aka the percentage of black football players is higher than the percentage of black non-football players). This is even more true if you go back 10+ years to when Rice's had smaller undgrad population.

Additionally, looking at some of the older fellas, I would guess a disproportionate share of Rice's alumni donations are also former football players.

So there are plenty of good reasons to keep Rice D1 and to strive for football success, even for people who think Rice football can never win. It is an integral part of Rice's identity for many alums.

This. I've tried to say this but lacked the confidence to say it so clearly.

Some have said things like, if we drop football, we can use the savings to increase our outreach to black students elsewhere.... but the reality is that a scholarship is a scholarship, and if we are only something like 8% or so black students (which I think is close) then we should already be doing that IN ADDITION to sports, not IN PLACE of them.

And yes, its an integral part. As is/was the MOB, Rally Club, Cheer and some other student activities that are strongly tied to football.
09-20-2021 01:42 PM
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Rice/UH post-game thread - owl40 - 09-11-2021, 11:55 PM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - mrbig - 09-12-2021, 01:24 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - texowl2 - 09-12-2021, 06:10 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - cr11owl - 09-12-2021, 10:30 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Frizzy Owl - 09-12-2021, 10:36 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Grungy - 09-13-2021, 03:59 PM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - MerseyOwl - 09-12-2021, 07:21 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Frizzy Owl - 09-12-2021, 11:02 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - ESE84 - 09-12-2021, 09:58 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Tomball Owl - 09-12-2021, 10:47 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - texowl2 - 09-12-2021, 08:55 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - mrbig - 09-12-2021, 10:25 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - wrysal - 09-12-2021, 10:50 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - georgewebb - 09-12-2021, 11:03 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - owl40 - 09-12-2021, 11:11 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Texasowl - 09-12-2021, 11:31 PM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - owlcarlos - 09-13-2021, 02:59 PM
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RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - tanqtonic - 09-12-2021, 03:35 PM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - HawaiiOwl - 09-12-2021, 04:35 PM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - HawaiiOwl - 09-13-2021, 01:32 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - mrbig - 09-12-2021, 05:02 PM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - spaz - 09-12-2021, 08:33 PM
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RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Tomball Owl - 09-13-2021, 10:09 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Hambone10 - 09-13-2021, 12:58 PM
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RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Tomball Owl - 09-16-2021, 02:38 PM
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RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Hambone10 - 09-20-2021, 10:43 AM
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RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - texowl2 - 09-17-2021, 10:46 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Ourland - 09-17-2021, 11:32 AM
RE: Rice/UH post-game thread - Hambone10 - 09-17-2021, 10:59 AM
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