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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-23-2020 08:58 AM)MerseyOwl Wrote: Given the ethos of Rice today, I think many would have second thoughts about matriculating if you're able to discern 'ethos' as a high school senior.
I'm not sure when it changed, but Rice was foreign to me almost as soon as I graduated.
Maybe my perception only became more acute with each passing year?
I have no regrets about the Rice I attended. I wanted an exceptional education with big-time athletics. And I was okay with the political climate back then. I remember the first time I realized I was a Libertarian was probably during my alumni interview when I was asked if I were liberal or conservative, and I responded, "Liberal on social issues, conservative on most political/governmental issues." That pretty much remains me to this day, and as such I was quite comfortable with Rice back then. I. doubt I would be today.
I got a great education and I met a lot of wonderful people. One impression I have is that I really feel that I learned far more from interactions with fellow students than I ever learned from any professor or classroom. I wonder, do others feel that way?
The Rice I attended played TexasU, LSU, and aTm in football every year, and even at the end of Jess and in the Hagan years beat each of them at least once while I was there. We also won a conference championship in basketball and multiple championships in track and tennis. Perhaps because I grew up in SEC country, the LSU games were for me the high points of Rice football while I was there.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-23-2020 08:58 AM)MerseyOwl Wrote: Given the ethos of Rice today, I think many would have second thoughts about matriculating if you're able to discern 'ethos' as a high school senior.
I'm not sure when it changed, but Rice was foreign to me almost as soon as I graduated.
Maybe my perception only became more acute with each passing year?
One thing that vastly changed the ethos was the composition of the student body. Using figures from fall, 2017, 13.2% of Rice students were from Mainland (Communist) China. Compare that with 1.8% at the University of Houston, and 2.7% from the University of Texas (also figures from 2017).
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-23-2020 08:01 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (12-22-2020 12:24 AM)Ourland Wrote: Louisiana Tech and USM are our biggest rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated, and in that order.
We have no current rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated. The only rivalries that we have that need to be preserved/cultivated would be UH, TexasU, LSU, and aTm. Except none of them are current rivalries, and (except possibly UH) unlikely to become so.
The ship has sailed, and we're not on it. Nor are we likely to get on at any point in the near future.
If I had it to do today, I'd go to Notre Dame.
No one considers Rice it's rival, not even UH. However, I can't co-sign off on the notion that no rivalries need to be cultivated. If that were true, CUSA would be a perfectly fine conference for us. But it isn't. We wish we were in the AAC, mainly because it would reunite us with Tulane, SMU, and Tulsa. There must be rivalries there worth pursuing or we'd be happy where we are.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-22-2020 10:17 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: Our biggest rival seems to be Rice - they are the ones who are always beating us.
Along those lines, I'd say Oberlin, but then, I don't like squirrels that much.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-23-2020 06:02 PM)GoodOwl Wrote: (12-22-2020 10:17 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: Our biggest rival seems to be Rice - they are the ones who are always beating us.
Along those lines, I'd say Oberlin, but then, I don't like squirrels that much.
Not just any squirrels ... ALBINO squirrels!
https://goyeo.com/news/2013/12/31/GEN_1231135104.aspx
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-23-2020 02:16 PM)Ourland Wrote: (12-23-2020 08:01 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (12-22-2020 12:24 AM)Ourland Wrote: Louisiana Tech and USM are our biggest rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated, and in that order.
We have no current rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated. The only rivalries that we have that need to be preserved/cultivated would be UH, TexasU, LSU, and aTm. Except none of them are current rivalries, and (except possibly UH) unlikely to become so.
The ship has sailed, and we're not on it. Nor are we likely to get on at any point in the near future.
If I had it to do today, I'd go to Notre Dame.
No one considers Rice it's rival, not even UH. However, I can't co-sign off on the notion that no rivalries need to be cultivated. If that were true, CUSA would be a perfectly fine conference for us. But it isn't. We wish we were in the AAC, mainly because it would reunite us with Tulane, SMU, and Tulsa. There must be rivalries there worth pursuing or we'd be happy where we are.
Results to date support your statement that no one considers Rice a rival. UH is at 25, but then a big drop to Tulane around 5. Rice fans aren’t frequently naming any current C-USA schools. Outside of the P5, it’s the AAC schools you name above.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
It (12-23-2020 08:38 PM)ESE84 Wrote: (12-23-2020 02:16 PM)Ourland Wrote: (12-23-2020 08:01 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (12-22-2020 12:24 AM)Ourland Wrote: Louisiana Tech and USM are our biggest rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated, and in that order.
We have no current rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated. The only rivalries that we have that need to be preserved/cultivated would be UH, TexasU, LSU, and aTm. Except none of them are current rivalries, and (except possibly UH) unlikely to become so.
The ship has sailed, and we're not on it. Nor are we likely to get on at any point in the near future.
If I had it to do today, I'd go to Notre Dame.
No one considers Rice it's rival, not even UH. However, I can't co-sign off on the notion that no rivalries need to be cultivated. If that were true, CUSA would be a perfectly fine conference for us. But it isn't. We wish we were in the AAC, mainly because it would reunite us with Tulane, SMU, and Tulsa. There must be rivalries there worth pursuing or we'd be happy where we are.
Results to date support your statement that no one considers Rice a rival. UH is at 25, but then a big drop to Tulane around 5. Rice fans aren’t frequently naming any current C-USA schools. Outside of the P5, it’s the AAC schools you name above.
And that's because they're "like-minded." It's a sad state of affairs that we aren't even good enough to associate with them. Think of it, three little private schools, with no meaningful history of success in athletics, left us behind in their dust. It doesn't get any worse than that. Shame on you Rice University.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-23-2020 08:31 PM)Almadenmike Wrote: (12-23-2020 06:02 PM)GoodOwl Wrote: (12-22-2020 10:17 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: Our biggest rival seems to be Rice - they are the ones who are always beating us.
Along those lines, I'd say Oberlin, but then, I don't like squirrels that much.
Not just any squirrels ... ALBINO squirrels!
https://goyeo.com/news/2013/12/31/GEN_1231135104.aspx
jus' to see if ya'll get the reference...
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-23-2020 08:01 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (12-22-2020 12:24 AM)Ourland Wrote: Louisiana Tech and USM are our biggest rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated, and in that order.
We have no current rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated. The only rivalries that we have that need to be preserved/cultivated would be UH, TexasU, LSU, and aTm. Except none of them are current rivalries, and (except possibly UH) unlikely to become so.
The ship has sailed, and we're not on it. Nor are we likely to get on at any point in the near future.
If I had it to do today, I'd go to Notre Dame.
Agreed. Second choice, Vandy. Safety school/financial considerations, TAMU....where many dozens of my family have attended
PS I included Army as a second rung rival.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 09:02 AM)Ricefootballnet Wrote: (12-23-2020 08:01 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (12-22-2020 12:24 AM)Ourland Wrote: Louisiana Tech and USM are our biggest rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated, and in that order.
We have no current rivalries that need to be preserved/cultivated. The only rivalries that we have that need to be preserved/cultivated would be UH, TexasU, LSU, and aTm. Except none of them are current rivalries, and (except possibly UH) unlikely to become so.
The ship has sailed, and we're not on it. Nor are we likely to get on at any point in the near future.
If I had it to do today, I'd go to Notre Dame.
Agreed. Second choice, Vandy. Safety school/financial considerations, TAMU....where many dozens of my family have attended
PS I included Army as a second rung rival.
If I was doing it again today, with me as the person I was in 1963, I would go to some easy school like TCU or OU, as all I wanted to do was party. My second choice in 1963 was Stanford, but in retrospect had I gone there I think I would have ended up on the streets of Haight-Ashbury and/or in the jungles of Viet Nam, so at least I know the Road Taken did not lead to a total waste of my time and and talent. I've had a decent life. Rice was not a bad choice for me/then.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 11:12 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I've had a decent life. Rice was not a bad choice for me/then.
Same here. I do not regret going to Rice.
But if I had it to do today, with the same criteria I had then (and I don't think those criteria have changed much since then), Rice would not be on the list.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 01:25 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (12-24-2020 11:12 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I've had a decent life. Rice was not a bad choice for me/then.
Same here. I do not regret going to Rice.
But if I had it to do today, with the same criteria I had then (and I don't think those criteria have changed much since then), Rice would not be on the list.
Well, in 1963, MY criteria were party, party, and more party. The more parties the better. Rice was primarily my parent's choice in 1963. I just went along with it.
Given the parameters then (no tuition, relatively close) I can see why they favored it over Stanford, TCU, and Michigan. Given what I know about myself then and now, and knowing the path my life actually took, I cannot fault the choice.
Now if I were a 2020 grad with the same academic achievements and the same desire to party, and the choice were up to me, I probably would choose Texas State.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 03:07 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: (12-24-2020 01:25 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (12-24-2020 11:12 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I've had a decent life. Rice was not a bad choice for me/then.
Same here. I do not regret going to Rice.
But if I had it to do today, with the same criteria I had then (and I don't think those criteria have changed much since then), Rice would not be on the list.
Well, in 1963, MY criteria were party, party, and more party. The more parties the better. Rice was primarily my parent's choice in 1963. I just went along with it.
Given the parameters then (no tuition, relatively close) I can see why they favored it over Stanford, TCU, and Michigan. Given what I know about myself then and now, and knowing the path my life actually took, I cannot fault the choice.
Now if I were a 2020 grad with the same academic achievements and the same desire to party, and the choice were up to me, I probably would choose Texas State.
I really wonder how many of us, with the same academic credentials we had when we matriculated, back before they invented dirt, could even get into Rice these days?
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 04:46 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote: (12-24-2020 03:07 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: (12-24-2020 01:25 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (12-24-2020 11:12 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I've had a decent life. Rice was not a bad choice for me/then.
Same here. I do not regret going to Rice.
But if I had it to do today, with the same criteria I had then (and I don't think those criteria have changed much since then), Rice would not be on the list.
Well, in 1963, MY criteria were party, party, and more party. The more parties the better. Rice was primarily my parent's choice in 1963. I just went along with it.
Given the parameters then (no tuition, relatively close) I can see why they favored it over Stanford, TCU, and Michigan. Given what I know about myself then and now, and knowing the path my life actually took, I cannot fault the choice.
Now if I were a 2020 grad with the same academic achievements and the same desire to party, and the choice were up to me, I probably would choose Texas State.
I really wonder how many of us, with the same academic credentials we had when we matriculated, back before they invented dirt, could even get into Rice these days?
Good question. It was a surprise to me that I was accepted even back then and I have always wondered why. I think the personal interview with Dean McEnany was the tipping point for me.
According to statistics and scores published in the Thresher, I was exactly at the 50th percentile of entering freshmen.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
Speaking of Rivals - who if anyone do you root for in Toad vs Coug in New Mexico Bowl?
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 05:58 PM)johncatworth Wrote: Speaking of Rivals - who if anyone do you root for in Toad vs Coug in New Mexico Bowl?
We better beat UH next year. Wish we could’ve played them this season.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 05:58 PM)johncatworth Wrote: Speaking of Rivals - who if anyone do you root for in Toad vs Coug in New Mexico Bowl?
UH 28 - UH 14.
Seriously, Hawaii doubles up the Coogs. Coogs won TOP and out gained Hawaii, but lost the turnover battle, throwing 3 INTs.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 07:07 PM)cr11owl Wrote: (12-24-2020 05:58 PM)johncatworth Wrote: Speaking of Rivals - who if anyone do you root for in Toad vs Coug in New Mexico Bowl?
We better beat UH next year. Wish we could’ve played them this season.
Agree if Holgerson returns. But I won’t be surprised if UH pulls the plug on him.
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RE: Which Rival Is The Most Important?
(12-24-2020 08:59 PM)ESE84 Wrote: (12-24-2020 07:07 PM)cr11owl Wrote: (12-24-2020 05:58 PM)johncatworth Wrote: Speaking of Rivals - who if anyone do you root for in Toad vs Coug in New Mexico Bowl?
We better beat UH next year. Wish we could’ve played them this season.
Agree if Holgerson returns. But I won’t be surprised if UH pulls the plug on him.
No chance.
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