An early Christmas present for the rest of the league.

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If it makes you feel any better so is our coach and overall he only has one more win than Mike.

The nerds are probably planning to pay big bucks to go into the AAC with a new head coach.

(11-28-2021 03:19 PM)PredatorUTEP Wrote:  The nerds are probably planning to pay big bucks to go into the AAC with a new head coach.

You are probably right, but I would test a new coach in this league before stepping up a bit in difficulty or at least perception of difficulty.

Running a pro style offense never made sense in Houston. The mecca of spread, in a state filled with talent and they decided to copy Stanford.

I thought for sure he was gone.

He should be gone. Four straight losing seasons. Terrible

(11-28-2021 10:05 PM)TallTexan Wrote:  Running a pro style offense never made sense in Houston. The mecca of spread, in a state filled with talent and they decided to copy Stanford.

I thought for sure he was gone.

We wish it was a pro style offense. We only threw the ball more than we ran the ball in four games this season. It definitely has been more of a run first offense in the past, but at least this year, it evolved more into an even split, and occasionally pass first offense.

And yes, the spread is the better option for Rice.

(11-29-2021 07:48 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(11-28-2021 10:05 PM)TallTexan Wrote:  Running a pro style offense never made sense in Houston. The mecca of spread, in a state filled with talent and they decided to copy Stanford.

I thought for sure he was gone.

We wish it was a pro style offense. We only threw the ball more than we ran the ball in four games this season. It definitely has been more of a run first offense in the past, but at least this year, it evolved more into an even split, and occasionally pass first offense.

And yes, the spread is the better option for Rice.

It's not even a High School Style offense...maybe Pop Warner, but that's still being charitable.

Rice can't get the big, athletic linemen to make it work. It's nonsense

As a UAB fan I’m elated that he will be there next year. He gave us some great billboard material for next year. It’s excellent. I’d make poster and place those statements through out the practice faculty.

I don't know what he said, but it shouldn't be hard to destroy Rice next season. Twenty-eight players are already leaving the program.

I thought this was an old post about Bailiff initially. It wasn’t that long ago that I remember Rice fans being excited to be past Bailiff and looking forward to Bloomgren replicating the success he had at Stanford. It’s a reminder that we should be cautiously optimistic at best about any hire.

(11-30-2021 11:03 AM)XYZ Wrote:  I thought this was an old post about Bailiff initially. It wasn’t that long ago that I remember Rice fans being excited to be past Bailiff and looking forward to Bloomgren replicating the success he had at Stanford. It’s a reminder that we should be cautiously optimistic at best about any hire.

We should definitely be cautious. But we should also know when to cut our losses after the new coach has proven to be a failure over four years.

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(11-29-2021 11:02 PM)Steel Dragon Wrote:  As a UAB fan I’m elated that he will be there next year. He gave us some great billboard material for next year. It’s excellent. I’d make poster and place those statements through out the practice faculty.

Yeah that was a head scratcher for me when he said this

Bloomgren Post UAB comments

“UAB is the standard. They won the conference 2 out of the last 3 years.They’ve been the bully. We wanted to come in here & give them a taste of their own medicine…I’m super proud of our kids”

I get being excited about the win, but there seemed to be something "extra" about what he said...and truth be told, a lot of hubris. Oh, well, 2022 will be a year of resolution regarding Bloomgren at Rice.

(11-30-2021 11:19 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(11-30-2021 11:03 AM)XYZ Wrote:  I thought this was an old post about Bailiff initially. It wasn’t that long ago that I remember Rice fans being excited to be past Bailiff and looking forward to Bloomgren replicating the success he had at Stanford. It’s a reminder that we should be cautiously optimistic at best about any hire.

We should definitely be cautious. But we should also know when to cut our losses after the new coach has proven to be a failure over four years.

It's not "failure" it's just "differently successful"!

RICE did play a tough ooc schedule. I think most CUSA coaches would have gone 1-3 too. You had two overtime games in conference. Had those gone the other way RICE is 6-6.

(11-30-2021 12:42 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  RICE did play a tough ooc schedule. I think most CUSA coaches would have gone 1-3 too. You had two overtime games in conference. Had those gone the other way RICE is 6-6.

That's true. But the angst is not just a function of wins and losses, but how we have gotten to those results.

We've have had as least 10 different starting QB. Yet, in 2020, we take on Marshall on the road and shut them out (not here to trigger Marshall fans). The winning QB (Jovoni Johnson) has yet to turn the ball over in his career at Rice. And what happens to him? Inexplicably, he gets buried down on the depth chart and eventually converted to receiver. Meanwhile, every other QB we trot out to start fumbles or throws picks. Jovoni is supposedly buried on the depth chart because he does not push the ball down field enough. Yet, every time he has played, the offensive efficiency was among the best seen at Rice since 2014. The only players that rivalled that consistency was Mike Collins in 2020 before he got hurt and at times Jake Constantine in 2021.

We've run an offense that is both inflexible and predictable. There are ways to be a run heavy offense that are far more flexible and less predictable.
The in game decision making is baffling. Those two overtime losses in 2021 could easily have been won and decided during regulation.

And now, we have 26 "seniors" leaving the program with some concern that we will also see true underclassman entering the transfer portal.

So we are entering a 2022 season potentially hobbled in depth with an offensive philosophy that is both stubborn and ineffective given our skillsets. Not a good look.

(11-30-2021 11:38 AM)Pan95 Wrote:  

(11-29-2021 11:02 PM)Steel Dragon Wrote:  As a UAB fan I’m elated that he will be there next year. He gave us some great billboard material for next year. It’s excellent. I’d make poster and place those statements through out the practice faculty.

Yeah that was a head scratcher for me when he said this

Bloomgren Post UAB comments

“UAB is the standard. They won the conference 2 out of the last 3 years.They’ve been the bully. We wanted to come in here & give them a taste of their own medicine…I’m super proud of our kids”

I get being excited about the win, but there seemed to be something "extra" about what he said...and truth be told, a lot of hubris. Oh, well, 2022 will be a year of resolution regarding Bloomgren at Rice.

GImme a break. That really upset you?

(12-01-2021 09:51 PM)Ourland Wrote:  

(11-30-2021 11:38 AM)Pan95 Wrote:  [quote='Steel Dragon' pid='17904265' dateline='1638244923']
As a UAB fan I’m elated that he will be there next year. He gave us some great billboard material for next year. It’s excellent. I’d make poster and place those statements through out the practice faculty.

Yeah that was a head scratcher for me when he said this

Bloomgren Post UAB comments

“UAB is the standard. They won the conference 2 out of the last 3 years.They’ve been the bully. We wanted to come in here & give them a taste of their own medicine…I’m super proud of our kids”

I get being excited about the win, but there seemed to be something "extra" about what he said...and truth be told, a lot of hubris. Oh, well, 2022 will be a year of resolution regarding Bloomgren at Rice.

GImme a break. That really upset you?

There was another interview that he stated that UAB thought they were going to win without playing the game. He bragged about taking it to us. Then he started talking about what a good man Clark was. I may have taken it the wrong way. Congrats on the win. It was probably Bloomgren's biggest win and he may have been overly excited. I'm glad for him. The next week they lost their QB that beat us. I felt sorry for the young man.

(12-01-2021 10:07 PM)Steel Dragon Wrote:  

(12-01-2021 09:51 PM)Ourland Wrote:  

(11-30-2021 11:38 AM)Pan95 Wrote:  [quote='Steel Dragon' pid='17904265' dateline='1638244923']
As a UAB fan I’m elated that he will be there next year. He gave us some great billboard material for next year. It’s excellent. I’d make poster and place those statements through out the practice faculty.

Yeah that was a head scratcher for me when he said this

Bloomgren Post UAB comments

“UAB is the standard. They won the conference 2 out of the last 3 years.They’ve been the bully. We wanted to come in here & give them a taste of their own medicine…I’m super proud of our kids”

I get being excited about the win, but there seemed to be something "extra" about what he said...and truth be told, a lot of hubris. Oh, well, 2022 will be a year of resolution regarding Bloomgren at Rice.

GImme a break. That really upset you?

There was another interview that he stated that UAB thought they were going to win without playing the game. He bragged about taking it to us. Then he started talking about what a good man Clark was. I may have taken it the wrong way. Congrats on the win. It was probably Bloomgren's biggest win and he may have been overly excited. I'm glad for him. The next week they lost their QB that beat us. I felt sorry for the young man.

Probably the second biggest win. But if he won more often, maybe he wouldn't get so excited.