(08-09-2022 07:44 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  With O-Week starting on Sunday, it would appear that our hope of landing a truly impactful transfer has ended. I am more than a it shocked and disappointed we were unable to get a proven right-handed hitter out of the portal. (I know we were close to landing a good one from Tulane, but he elected to return to Tulane.)

David Shaw remains the lone Rice transfer who has landed. I wonder if any of the others wants to or is allowed to return to Rice. Woodcox is the only one of any consequence and upside potential, but from what I've hears I think he's burned his bridges at Rice.

I think the cost of attendance coupled with NIL options elsewhere are going to continue to hamper Rice. You can't keep increasing tuition yearly and expect the partial scholarship sports to keep up. You end up with having players from the wealthy (tuition doesn't matter) to the lower income (Rice Investment kicks in). Not that this is not an option/strategy but it does limit the net you can cast. This is not just a Rice problem but it does lead to players in the portal having other options. IMO.