LitMedallion

P5 and G5 will go away soon enough.

Interesting take. There's a saying, "give it the ol' college try". Seems fitting. Continual conference realignment really caught us off guard. We were supposed to stay FCS for 5 years, then look for an FBS home. We couldn't ignore the WAC offer when they came calling, but it disbanded after one year. Fortunately CUSA came calling, then the AAC. It's been a blur for a 13 year old program that services mostly lower socioeconomic peoples. UNT endowment 217.8M FY2020 UTSA endowment 277M FY2021

You're not wrong. Nothing screams awesome about any facility at Rice. I live in Houston and have watched soccer, baseball, basketball, and football. Bsaeball was great 30 years ago, but it is good enough. The diamond dimensions are identical to all ncaa diamonds. Same with basketball. Soccer? it's just like all high school fields. Football? Rice stadium sucks compared to modern stadiums.

1. What is it 35K a player at SMU? Hey, SMU can legaly pay players now. I loved Pony Exce$$ 30 for 30. I still crack up at James being the lone boy scout from that era. 2. True, but I think more of it will be shopping services until enough collectives get burned.

My bad, I should have posted the link. Josh Pate mentioned SMU doing really well, so it was 247 sports.

Looks like SMU is running away with it at 17 players and 14 of them being 3 stars and 2 of them being 4 stars. This ranks them 6th overall. Tulsa 1 4*, Temple 1 3*, and Tulane 1 3*. La Tech did better than the 6 new AAC schools. Interesting data. None of us joining the AAC have a 3 star or higher. Power of the NIL at play?

He's in high demand. 2 OCs have now gone on to P5s; Illinois and now Oregon. He and his family loves Boerne Texas and his kids are in school. It's gonna have to be the right school. Yes, he inherited Harris, but he's also coached the entire team up. Way fewer unsportsmanlike, fewer procedure penalties, etc. We may not be conference champs, but we win 8 games a year. And after Wilson? I'll take that.

No, officially Frank Wilson's. I realy think Coker staff started the process, though. Harris has been a student at UTSA since 2017. Thank god he wasn't wasted under Wilson. Many fans at that time felt Narcisse was the better QB. I really don't know who they were watching, but it clearly wasn't UTSA. I never once thought any QB on UTSA roster was better than Harris.

They won't have Freeze anymore, so we'll have to see how they might fall off or stay the same. But they clearly have a money advantage AND the desire.

They get what they deserve. Imagine a 2 time conference champ being sent to a bowl game on a Friday afternoon during a legit work day. Literally, played in the last CUSA game of the year and playing in the second earliest game. This CUSA sucks ass...

COVID Seniors, maybe? If you look at college football as a whole, there were many "upsets" and a school like Tulane, which is an undesirable football destination, the ability to give recruits one extra year of development is huge. I don't know for sure, but that's my guess. Blue blood P5 schools have to keep that pipeline moving, whereas G5s actually benefited from super seniors. James Madison killed it this year.

I would love to blame Judy, but this is all TV's doing. Either way, Friday sucks...

Good luck ... Here's to as injury free game.

...And without any fans in the stands.

2021 was the first year of the Friday Championship game.

Meh, they've had since 1996 to give a care.

Nice joke!

Rice will never grow, though.

Why do you feel this way?

Only 4 teams from CUSA would have been invited to the American. UNT, UTSA, UAB, and FAU. We could play an 8 game schedule while rotating through all the teams more frequently. (UNT, SMU, UTSA, Tulsa) (Tulane, UAB, Memphis, ECU) (FAU, USF, Navy, Temple) Play annually then you rotate the other 8 teams in the 5 remaining games. These annual teams would be regional type rivals. Schedule the other 5 games as home and home and we'd rotate through the entire conference no less than every 4 years.

ESPN has a lot of pull. I think we play Coastal in the NO bowl no matter what. It was embarrassing to see 30 UTSA fans in the stands on Saturday and that being 26 more than Rice had. Rice simply does not pull its weight anymore. Houston area doesn't care about Rice anymore than Rice cares about Rice.

The trophy was probably already made for each division before Marshall, USM, and ODU jumped abruptly to the Sunbelt. That wouldn't surprise me one bit to see this repurposed. LOL

It does for post season consideration in baseball, basketball, etc. CUSA might actually be on the forefront here knowing the playoffs are about to expand and divisions in all conferences are going away. SEC confirmed they will not have divisions. We've already seen a non-SEC winner make the natty and actually win it all 3 times. Alabama over LSU, Alabama over Georgia, Georgia over Alabama.

At Alabama this title/position is called "Saban coach rehab clinic" for recently failed coaches that need insight as to how top notch programs are run. I think they are used also for their experience to grade in real time performance on the field while understanding all the HC duties/communications/recruiting for "the process" of being a head coach. Use Sark as an example. Look at him Pre-Alabama and Post-Alabama. His demeanor is completely different. Hes having some great results and some dud reults, but he'd definitely handling it better than ast USC or Washington. He was in this "analyst role" before leaving for the Falcons and then returning to Alabama for the 2019&2020 seasons. Weird that this guy was that already at Michigan, so no you aren't missing anything. A rich guy who may or may not know football that is "on cheap" for Charlotte.