blazr
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Damn you, Rice!!!
Damn you straight to hell!
Ok, with that out of the way, what if all of Rice’s games vs West teams were considered forfeits and ODU’s games would be considered the same except for East foes. That would come close to balancing things out, right?
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10-06-2020 01:33 AM |
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blazerwkr
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
Makes sense & Rice is a Texas team so that's 2 things that we all know which way the commish will rule on
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10-06-2020 10:36 AM |
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blazerjay
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
(10-06-2020 10:36 AM)blazerwkr Wrote: Makes sense & Rice is a Texas team so that's 2 things that we all know which way the commish will rule on
Judy rules on things? You would never know it.
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10-06-2020 10:59 AM |
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The Answer UAB
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
Did rice officially back out of the season? What exactly happened?
And are any accommodations being made for us since we will have less conference/division games?
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10-06-2020 12:53 PM |
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BlazinBham
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
Rice and ODU both should count as a forfeit for everyone that failed to have that game replaced. Too simple.
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10-06-2020 01:07 PM |
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
(10-06-2020 01:07 PM)BlazinBham Wrote: Rice and ODU both should count as a forfeit for everyone that failed to have that game replaced. Too simple.
Agree 100%. These games don’t have to go down in the history books or anything, but they need to have some recourse for just saying F it we aren’t showing up until we feel like it.
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10-06-2020 01:18 PM |
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
Agreed. Should 100% be a forfeit.
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10-06-2020 01:41 PM |
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
Yeah I agree. That is completely unfair to the rest of the conference. To sit out the season from the beginning would be fine with me, but to just start back when they feel like it after the hardest part of their schedule is not fair at all.
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10-06-2020 01:48 PM |
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blazerjay
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
(10-06-2020 10:59 AM)blazerjay Wrote: (10-06-2020 10:36 AM)blazerwkr Wrote: Makes sense & Rice is a Texas team so that's 2 things that we all know which way the commish will rule on
Judy rules on things? You would never know it.
Someone really should have given CBS/Scout a head's up though.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...game/live/
Quote:By Scout Staff
Oct 3, 2020 at 4:56 pm ET
The Marshall Thundering Herd have had a week off and are no doubt ready to get back on the field. They will stay at home another week and welcome the Rice Owls at 2 p.m. ET Oct. 3 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
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10-06-2020 04:32 PM |
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blazerwkr
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
(10-06-2020 10:59 AM)blazerjay Wrote: (10-06-2020 10:36 AM)blazerwkr Wrote: Makes sense & Rice is a Texas team so that's 2 things that we all know which way the commish will rule on
Judy rules on things? You would never know it.
Probably should have quantified in that no action is an action so by doing nothing she's doing something & not for the betterment of those involved east of the Mississippi
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10-06-2020 08:49 PM |
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blazerjay
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
(10-06-2020 08:49 PM)blazerwkr Wrote: (10-06-2020 10:59 AM)blazerjay Wrote: (10-06-2020 10:36 AM)blazerwkr Wrote: Makes sense & Rice is a Texas team so that's 2 things that we all know which way the commish will rule on
Judy rules on things? You would never know it.
Probably should have quantified in that no action is an action so by doing nothing she's doing something & not for the betterment of those involved east of the Mississippi
Judy - C-USA's Nero...an ineffectual leader in a time of crisis.
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
(10-06-2020 09:15 PM)blazerjay Wrote: (10-06-2020 08:49 PM)blazerwkr Wrote: (10-06-2020 10:59 AM)blazerjay Wrote: (10-06-2020 10:36 AM)blazerwkr Wrote: Makes sense & Rice is a Texas team so that's 2 things that we all know which way the commish will rule on
Judy rules on things? You would never know it.
Probably should have quantified in that no action is an action so by doing nothing she's doing something & not for the betterment of those involved east of the Mississippi
Judy - C-USA's Nero...an ineffectual leader in a time of crisis.
I mean, I have no sympathy for Judy MacLeod since back in the day, in her position prior to being Commish, she tried to bully me into stopping use of C-USA in my podcast title about C-USA. Instead of encouraging the fact that a third-party media outlet would actually be interested enough to cover C-USA intimately every week, she threatened legal action.
I, of course, told her to forget it, that it was fair use, and that I'd love to see the conference sue us for the publicity alone.
I never heard from her again, but I do wish I had saved the e-mail for nostalgia's sake.
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10-06-2020 11:20 PM |
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More like thank you, Rice!!!
A bye week to prepare for WKU and Louisiana
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10-09-2020 10:02 AM |
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
ESPN is predicting Rice to go 6-0 in its games currently left on the schedule (assuming they man up and play at all).
Image this scenario at the end of the season (according to ESPN projections).
Rice 6-0 • 6-0
UAB 6-0 • 8-2
LT 5-3 • 7-4
USM 3-4 • 4-7
UTSA 3-5 • 5-7
NTX 1-7 • 2-8
UTEP 0-8 • 3-9
MARSH 6-0 • 8-0
FAU 5-1 • 5-1
CHAR 5-2 • 5-4
WKU 3-4 • 4-7
MT 2-6 • 2-9
FIU 1-6 • 2-7
In this scenario, supposedly the UAB at Rice game would be played 12/5 to determine the West Division Championship. That sounds fair, right? Not so fast. If Rice had played Marshall which would have been a likely loss for Rice, then UAB would have won the West outright. In this scenario, I feel Rice should be made to play at Marshall on 12/5 and should they win that game, then UAB could travel to Houston on 12/12 to break the tie.
My contention is that Rice would not have been tied at all if they had not wussed out on their two toughest conference opponents and the burden to decide the division should be placed on Rice, not UAB.
(This post was last modified: 10-14-2020 11:33 AM by blazerjay.)
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
None of this will matter because Rice will end up 3-3.
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10-14-2020 02:39 PM |
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BlazinBham
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
If the 6-0 scenario comes true, Rice should come to Birmingham. They ducked us and Marshall on purpose.
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10-14-2020 03:11 PM |
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
(10-14-2020 02:39 PM)demiveeman Wrote: None of this will matter because Rice will end up 3-3.
This
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10-14-2020 03:45 PM |
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blazerwkr
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RE: Damn you, Rice!!!
I think enough teams in the west are miffed at Rice so will have some extra motivation plus I don't think they'll win out as mentioned above MT might be their only win
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10-14-2020 04:17 PM |
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