Important Bowl Records:

Notre Dame $$$$$$
SEC $$
ACC $$
BIG 12 $

B1G
PAC 12

All others:

(01-02-2019 12:20 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 11:19 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:40 AM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:21 AM)Grungy Wrote:  UT beats Georgia, 28-21.

And looked really good doing it. Georgia was never in the game, for the most part.

heard the announcers give some of the credit to Rice grad transfer Calvin Anderson.

Article Re C Anderson in Statesman

Really great to see Anderson have such success at the next level. He has a Rice degree and a Sugar Bowl victory under his belt. Not bad!

(01-02-2019 02:35 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:20 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 11:19 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:40 AM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:21 AM)Grungy Wrote:  UT beats Georgia, 28-21.

And looked really good doing it. Georgia was never in the game, for the most part.

heard the announcers give some of the credit to Rice grad transfer Calvin Anderson.

Article Re C Anderson in Statesman

Really great to see Anderson have such success at the next level. He has a Rice degree and a Sugar Bowl victory under his belt. Not bad!

Success by Rice grads in any field of endeavor is beneficial to Rice University.

(01-02-2019 03:59 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:37 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Updated after Sugar Bowl:

Bowl records by conference:

CUSA 4-2
Independents 2-1
Mountain West 3-2
SunBelt 3-2
XII 4-3
B1G 5-4
SEC 6-5, plus championship
ACC 5-5, plus championship
Pac-12 3-4
American 2-5
MAC 1-5

CUSA clinches best bowl record of any conference.

What is the prize for winning the Bowl Challenge Cup?

A Laurel and Hardy Handshake

(01-02-2019 02:35 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:20 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 11:19 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:40 AM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:21 AM)Grungy Wrote:  UT beats Georgia, 28-21.

And looked really good doing it. Georgia was never in the game, for the most part.

heard the announcers give some of the credit to Rice grad transfer Calvin Anderson.

Article Re C Anderson in Statesman

Really great to see Anderson have such success at the next level. He has a Rice degree and a Sugar Bowl victory under his belt. Not bad!

I was thinking exactly the same thing.
2 questions come to mind...
Did the previous Rice coaching staff (Bailiff, et al) have any part in helping Anderson get the position at Texas? Especially considering the Bailiff-Mensa connection.
And
What are Anderson's chances in the upcoming NFL draft? Any early word on his ability to be taken in the first 3 or 4 rounds?

(01-02-2019 03:27 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 02:35 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:20 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 11:19 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:40 AM)greyowl72 Wrote:  And looked really good doing it. Georgia was never in the game, for the most part.

heard the announcers give some of the credit to Rice grad transfer Calvin Anderson.

Article Re C Anderson in Statesman

Really great to see Anderson have such success at the next level. He has a Rice degree and a Sugar Bowl victory under his belt. Not bad!

I was thinking exactly the same thing.
2 questions come to mind...
Did the previous Rice coaching staff (Bailiff, et al) have any part in helping Anderson get the position at Texas? Especially considering the Bailiff-Mensa connection.
And
What are Anderson's chances in the upcoming NFL draft? Any early word on his ability to be taken in the first 3 or 4 rounds?

Re: the first one, even if Bailiff (or anyone else on the former Rice staff) did put in a good word, Anderson definitely didn't need it to get looks. He was probably the best offensive line grad transfer this time last year and had his pick of UT, Auburn, Michigan and Oklahoma.

Re: the second one, seems like this website thinks he's a back half of the draft type of player
http://walterfootball.com/draft2019OT.php

(01-02-2019 05:39 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 03:27 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 02:35 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 12:20 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 11:19 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  heard the announcers give some of the credit to Rice grad transfer Calvin Anderson.

Article Re C Anderson in Statesman

Really great to see Anderson have such success at the next level. He has a Rice degree and a Sugar Bowl victory under his belt. Not bad!

I was thinking exactly the same thing.
2 questions come to mind...
Did the previous Rice coaching staff (Bailiff, et al) have any part in helping Anderson get the position at Texas? Especially considering the Bailiff-Mensa connection.
And
What are Anderson's chances in the upcoming NFL draft? Any early word on his ability to be taken in the first 3 or 4 rounds?

Re: the first one, even if Bailiff (or anyone else on the former Rice staff) did put in a good word, Anderson definitely didn't need it to get looks. He was probably the best offensive line grad transfer this time last year and had his pick of UT, Auburn, Michigan and Oklahoma.

Re: the second one, seems like this website thinks he's a back half of the draft type of player
http://walterfootball.com/draft2019OT.php

Anderson’s issue is that he is not particularly strong (relatively speaking).

He is pretty good in pass protection but leaves a lot to be desired in run blocking. If you watch Texas film, they run a lot more off the right tackle than the left tackle.

(01-02-2019 06:11 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 05:39 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 03:27 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  What are Anderson's chances in the upcoming NFL draft? Any early word on his ability to be taken in the first 3 or 4 rounds?

... seems like this website thinks he's a back half of the draft type of player
http://walterfootball.com/draft2019OT.php

Anderson’s issue is that he is not particularly strong (relatively speaking).

He is pretty good in pass protection but leaves a lot to be desired in run blocking. If you watch Texas film, they run a lot more off the right tackle than the left tackle.

Assessments from that Walter Football site:

Quote:Projected Round (2019): 4-6.

8/28/18: According to NFL teams' preseason data provided by team sources, Anderson checks in at 6-foot-5, 300 pounds. He is said to run the 40 at 5.10 seconds.

Anderson is a graduate transfer to Texas from Rice and is a plug-and-play starter for the Longhorns. Team sources have Anderson with a preseason projection of being a prospect for the first four rounds of the 2019 NFL Draft. He has good athleticism and is steady pass protector at tackle. Anderson could use more strength for run blocking in the NFL.

12/9/18: Sources say they have not been impressed with Anderson this season.

Bowl records are becoming more and more meaningless when so many top NFL prospects skip the games. I suspect without looking it up in advance that Georgia had some players not play in the Sugar Bowl.

A Sugar Bowl anecdote - my brother brought his twins yesterday to Tulane for a campus visit as a possible college destination (where he ran into another Rice fan doing the same with his daughter by the way), and he told me that they had a lot of people on their visit. He was trying to figure out why it was so many kids but then he noticed that almost all of them were from Texas and Georgia (families in town for the Sugar Bowl who probably had younger siblings of current students so they were checking out a local college). I wonder if Rice's campus visits are larger when say the Texas Bowl is being played? That's something I've never thought about as a benefit to a local school during bowl season until now.

He also mentioned to me how the bulk of the campus visit was Tulane officials pumping up their massive, new 4-story campus rec building (which he said was gorgeous but at the same time, he said they barely mentioned anything about academics on the campus tour).

(01-03-2019 07:05 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Bowl records are becoming more and more meaningless when so many top NFL prospects skip the games. I suspect without looking it up in advance that Georgia had some players not play in the Sugar Bowl.
A Sugar Bowl anecdote - my brother brought his twins yesterday to Tulane for a campus visit as a possible college destination (where he ran into another Rice fan doing the same with his daughter by the way), and he told me that they had a lot of people on their visit. He was trying to figure out why it was so many kids but then he noticed that almost all of them were from Texas and Georgia (families in town for the Sugar Bowl who probably had younger siblings of current students so they were checking out a local college). I wonder if Rice's campus visits are larger when say the Texas Bowl is being played? That's something I've never thought about as a benefit to a local school during bowl season until now.
He also mentioned to me how the bulk of the campus visit was Tulane officials pumping up their massive, new 4-story campus rec building (which he said was gorgeous but at the same time, he said they barely mentioned anything about academics on the campus tour).

Unfortunately, rec buildings and the like are what it has become. I suppose no prospective student gets as far as a visit without being fully aware of the academics.

Your post does bring up one interesting angle. Does Rice, and if not should Rice, target areas from which football teams are coming to town for big games--the Texas Bowl or one of the Reliant specials--to invite potential students from the states involved to come for a visit while in town? I don't know that Baylor versus Vandy was great opportunity for this (because Baylor alums are mostly Texans and Vandy alums probably already favor another elite academic school), but if instead it had been Tennessee versus Kansas or Kansas State, would it make sense to send a letter to all National Merit finalists (or some similar criterion) in those states inviting them for a visit?

(01-03-2019 07:05 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  He also mentioned to me how the bulk of the campus visit was Tulane officials pumping up their massive, new 4-story campus rec building (which he said was gorgeous but at the same time, he said they barely mentioned anything about academics on the campus tour).

That's what I remember from my own Tulane visit back in 2007. It was 95% Lifestyle, 5% Katrina after-effects, and 0% Academics

(01-03-2019 10:49 AM)That Guy 2012 Wrote:  

(01-03-2019 07:05 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  He also mentioned to me how the bulk of the campus visit was Tulane officials pumping up their massive, new 4-story campus rec building (which he said was gorgeous but at the same time, he said they barely mentioned anything about academics on the campus tour).

That's what I remember from my own Tulane visit back in 2007. It was 95% Lifestyle, 5% Katrina after-effects, and 0% Academics

A friend of mine has a granddaughter who has been offered an athletic scholarship to Auburn. On the official visit, they (a large group, including parents) were taken on a campus tour by the "official" tour guide. When asked where the Library was, the guide didn't know.

(01-03-2019 01:18 PM)grOWLer Wrote:  

(01-03-2019 10:49 AM)That Guy 2012 Wrote:  

(01-03-2019 07:05 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  He also mentioned to me how the bulk of the campus visit was Tulane officials pumping up their massive, new 4-story campus rec building (which he said was gorgeous but at the same time, he said they barely mentioned anything about academics on the campus tour).

That's what I remember from my own Tulane visit back in 2007. It was 95% Lifestyle, 5% Katrina after-effects, and 0% Academics

A friend of mine has a granddaughter who has been offered an athletic scholarship to Auburn. On the official visit, they (a large group, including parents) were taken on a campus tour by the "official" tour guide. When asked where the Library was, the guide didn't know.

Sorry, I don't believe that.

Final standings:

Bowl records by conference:

CUSA 4-2
Independents 2-1
Mountain West 3-2
SunBelt 3-2
XII 4-3
B1G 5-4
ACC 6-5, plus #1 team
SEC 6-6
Pac-12 3-4
American 2-5
MAC 1-5

CUSA wins best bowl record of any conference, FWIW which is not much.

Note that all P5s ended up within 1 game of .500.

(01-09-2019 09:30 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Note that all P5s ended up within 1 game of .500.

Makes sense, since most P5s play other P5s. Here were (I think) the only 'crossover' bowls:

1) LSU def UCF
2) Virginia Tech lost to Cincinnati
3) Duke def Temple
4) Wake Forest def Memphis
5) Arizona State lost to Fresno State
...
6) Boston College / Boise State not played