(04-20-2021 05:09 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(04-20-2021 02:27 PM)Ourland Wrote:  

(04-20-2021 09:03 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(04-20-2021 08:55 AM)Ourland Wrote:  I'm glad he's being encouraged to pursue other interests. His coaching hires in the three biggest sports have all been suspect. None of them have panned out so far, and we don't need him around if Bloomgren struggles to bowl eligibility this year. Kids are leaving our programs in droves. The gentleman who posted the on-line petition said it best. I agree that something is very wrong in the athletics department.

Yet another gross exaggeration (if not outright falsehood). Do tell what kids are leaving our programs in droves, especially relative to other school programs?

We lost five when Rhoades left as basketball coach, and we continue to lose our best two players at the end of almost every season. The same is true in football. If Rice were a great place to be an athlete, these kids would be staying, even the graduate transfers.

I would expect there to be more turnover at places that can't provide nearly as good an education as Rice, but that isn't the case. The education is outstanding, so there must be something very wrong with the athletics experience on campus.

We do NOT lose our best players in football almost every season. Stop the B.S. As for basketball, we don't lose more than other G5 programs. Unfortunately, thanks to the NCAA, this is the sad state of college basketball. In baseball, we've lost only a handful of players the past 4 - 5 years, despite the sad decline in the program, and every single one of those was do to either playing time or academics. What T&F guys have left the program "in droves"? What women in any of our sports have left the program "in droves"?

We’ve lost our best player in football two of the last four years (Blaze and Calvin Anderson) at the very least... Not “almost every year”-but 50% of years on a small sample isn’t encouraging!