(11-19-2019 10:21 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  We have to schedule the big boys for recruiting and the chance to make a statement

Just curious: When does everyone on the board consider the last time football made a statement?

I'm not talking about beating Texas in '94 because, great as that win was for us personally, most of the nation was like: "Well, even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes, plus it was raining real bad."

I mean, like, when did Rice football rise up and beat a nationally top-ranked team that people across the country actually cared about and messed up the path of that other team's season to the extent people nationally sat up, took notice and said "Dayum, Rice, ya'll don't suck so much this year?"


Because, IMHO, as much as all the other stuff, our football teams have gone decades without doing something like App State, Boise, even TCU or Tulane back when they ran the table and were ranked..or South Florida. What we need is...wait for it...Signature Wins, plural, that the nation cares about. We also need the other stuff, but A couple of Signature wins, either in same undefeated or near-undefeated season(s) even in CUSA, will go further to help our school out than almost anything else.

To do that, we need a dayum FOOTBALL COACH who takes ours'uns and can figure out how to beat theirs'uns. We haven't had a guy with that kind of moxie on campus for several consecutive seasons in quite a while. Transformation is the best answer to help the program, football and overall. This supposed Incrementalism stuff (sometimes it's just lipstick) isn't working for us.