(04-20-2021 08:01 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(04-20-2021 07:54 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-20-2021 07:43 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  There should be an affirmative statement regarding specific steps Rice intends to follow as a commitment to ensuring that Rice competes at the highest level in athletics, in the same way that it does academically.

But who drafts that statement? The president has a number of things on his plate, and the BOT members additionally have day jobs. Expecting either to come up with a vision for Rice athletics and a plan to achieve that vision is not accepting reality.

Suppose the Board and Leebron told JK to come up with such an affirmative statement, and more importantly a plan to realize that goal. Do you think he'd be up to the task?

Um, I believe he did, and it's in the Rice Athletics vision statement and strategic plan which has been updated multiple times since JK arrived.

The vision statement/strategic plan has been watered down every time that it's been revised during JK's tenure.

Remember when it was top 25 rankings? Nowhere to be found anymore in the statement, and we haven't had a top 25 ranking in a men's sport since men's tennis in 2016, I believe.