Rice

[southsideguy]

What do we know about the owls?

[DeepGreen]

1 minute ago, southsideguy said:

What do we know about the owls?

They have a funny band.  And I'm not impressed with QB.

[EagleMBA]

The first thing that comes to mind is they are 0 - 3, playing at home, and dangerous. If the team that showed up in Florida shows up in Houston, we could come home 2 - 2.

[techdawg88]

10 minutes ago, southsideguy said:

What do we know about the owls?

Owls are in the phylum chordata 

[UNT 90 Grad]

If you wanna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.   The MOB takes that to heart. 

[PlummMeanGreen]

Rice Stadium: Rice Owls versus Baylor, circa 1961?   My first college football game to attend.  I was hooked! 

GMG!

[Mike Jackson]

Rice:

• The play a 4 man defensive line 4-2-5 Base Nickel Defense
• Play 2 QB (the 2nd QB runs a spread option and rarely passes)
• Played a decent half against Baylor Friday (defense played well)
• They have at least 3 good running backs
• Seem to lack speed at the receiver position
• Like to use a lot of horizontal misdirection to create running lanes
• QB's not very accurate down the field and can't drive the ball
• They have an average pass rush from the front 7

 

UNT Keys

1. Limit their run game
2. Win on first down
3. Force them to throw the ball down the Field
4. Patience on offense (Fine should have time to throw)

Rice Campus Notes

• Great G5 Stadium
• Really Good Private School
• Gorgeous campus with beautiful trees

 

I highly recommend it as an away game trip.  Definitely a winnable game and there will be plenty of good seats available. 

 

[RushnStudies]

An excellent place to watch a football game, especially in nice weather. The MOB... well, it's the MOB. Their student section is loud, proud, and heckle with the best.

And they've got a student-run pub on campus. When I was at Houston, the pub was in the basement of the chemistry building; it appears to have moved to the student center. We'd go on Wednesday nights, when you could bring your own pitcher-- any size, as long as it was shaped like a pitcher (boy, did our architecture students have fun with that)-- and they'd fill it with Shiner Bock for $2. http://willyspub.rice.edu/

 

This is a winnable game for us, depending on which UNT and Rice football teams show up.

[Matt from A700]

UNT isn't scandalous, so the Rice band doesn't have anything to pick at like they did with Baylor this past weekend. But I wasn't impressed with their "last resort school" comment last year.

[Stix]

37 minutes ago, Matt from A700 said:

UNT isn't scandalous, so the Rice band doesn't have anything to pick at like they did with Baylor this past weekend

they'll probably resort to the lame "be sure to tip your waiter well, she may have attended UNT" line again (implying that all NT students are music majors who can't get real jobs when they graduate). Never mind how few MOB members are actually Rice students - there's a lot of local Jr. High & High School kids to make up for the lack of students.