Not game related but it was good to see Adidas does make uni’s with a full button shirt.

I see no problem of playing them but not all in one week. I dont remember Graham scheduling like this for most of his years here.

(02-23-2019 09:03 AM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(02-22-2019 11:33 PM)Wiessman Wrote:  

(02-22-2019 11:31 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Rice was nuts to schedule three top 25 teams in one week.

The real problem is that we failed to maintain our program properly.

I mean, yeah, facing UT, Arizona, and UCI is kinda rough sledding in a week. But we shouldn't be this putrid at this point. The landscape shifted against us, but we started to realize that, what, maybe a decade ago after the postseason nightmares against LSU?

We still have people on this board who think Wayne should’ve coached until he decided to quit. We’ve ignored the fact that our program has slipped for 7 or 8 years. One upset win in 2013 at Oregon probably gave some hope and the run 2 years ago in the conference tournament delayed the inevitable. Anyone watching the program saw our talent level dropping significantly and we didn’t do anything about it.

Going to be an ugly couple years as the 9th or 10th best team in the state. It all starts with recruiting.

(02-23-2019 09:34 AM)OldOwl Wrote:  I see no problem of playing them but not all in one week. I dont remember Graham scheduling like this for most of his years here.

(02-23-2019 09:03 AM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(02-22-2019 11:33 PM)Wiessman Wrote:  

(02-22-2019 11:31 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Rice was nuts to schedule three top 25 teams in one week.

The real problem is that we failed to maintain our program properly.

I mean, yeah, facing UT, Arizona, and UCI is kinda rough sledding in a week. But we shouldn't be this putrid at this point. The landscape shifted against us, but we started to realize that, what, maybe a decade ago after the postseason nightmares against LSU?

We still have people on this board who think Wayne should’ve coached until he decided to quit. We’ve ignored the fact that our program has slipped for 7 or 8 years. One upset win in 2013 at Oregon probably gave some hope and the run 2 years ago in the conference tournament delayed the inevitable. Anyone watching the program saw our talent level dropping significantly and we didn’t do anything about it.

Going to be an ugly couple years as the 9th or 10th best team in the state. It all starts with recruiting.

It was actually even worse than this. Originally, this past Wednesday's game was scheduled to be at TCU, but once the Minute Maid schedule was released (with us playing TCU next Sunday), TCU backed out of that midweek game. Rick Mello was able to reschedule with Arizona, who were coming to Houston anyway to play the Coogs.