Random Notes On Rice

[UNT Mean Green]

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As we told you last week, coach David Bailiff can't be feeling too secure about his job with a new, trigger-happy athletic director in place. But Bailiff may finally have the pieces -- at least on offense -- to get the Owls over .500.

Rice's top two rushers -- sophomore Charles Ross and junior Tyler Smith -- return. Add to them heralded Michigan transfer Sam McGuffie, a sophomore who ripped off two TD runs in Tuesday's intrasquad scrimmage, including a 50-yarder, and redshirt freshman Turner Petersen, whose physical style belies a guy who came to Rice as a WR, and the Owls suddenly have the depth to run the ball all day.

Moreover, at QB, junior returning starter Nick Fanuzzi is expected to have his hands full fighting off challenges from the two Taylors (and we don't mean Lautner and Swift): sophomore Miami transfer Taylor Cook, a Ryan Mallett clone at 6-foot-7, and redshirt freshman Taylor McHargue, who is considered the best athlete among the three.

The college football world is littered with transfers who never lived up to their hype, but if Rice's pair can deliver, the Owls could make a move in Conference USA.

[Mean Green 93-98]

Knowing what happened last time we played them, there is no way I can call Rice a "gimme."

[island eagle]

That was a painful game for me. Our city was under curfew due to Ike and I couldn't go home to drown my sorrows after the game. However, did stay with some good friends just a couple of miles from the stadium.

[UNT90]

Knowing what happened last time we played them, there is no way I can call Rice a "gimme."

No game is a gimme. Not even WKU.

[Eagle1855]

Knowing what happened last time we played them, there is no way I can call Rice a "gimme."

Of all of the UNT ass-whippings I've attended, that one was by far the most painful for me. My city. My team. Total failure. The only amount of solace taken is that Rice won 10 games that year. And even that, for a "peer program", is only a very, very small consolation.

[emmitt01]

Knowing our play over the last few seasons, there is no way I can call Rice a "gimme."

fixed it.

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

I'll go ahead and say it's a gimme: "The Rice game is a gimme."

You can quote me. And, for the record, so is Army. We'll paint West Point Mean Green, for sure, dude! Like, totally!

The ground has shifted, fellow Mean Green followers. Shift with it or be sucked into Dante's ninth level freezing hell...because that's where were going to send the majority of our opponents and doubters in 2010!

¡Viva Chico Canales!

(Someone with nunchuk and computer farking skills needs to create a picture of Chico in a Mean Green Sombrero)

[forevereagle]

I'll go ahead and say it's a gimme: "The Rice game is a gimme."

You can quote me. And, for the record, so is Army. We'll paint West Point Mean Green, for sure, dude! Like, totally!

The ground has shifted, fellow Mean Green followers. Shift with it or be sucked into Dante's ninth level freezing hell...because that's where were going to send the majority of our opponents and doubters in 2010!

¡Viva Chico Canales!

(Someone with nunchuk and computer farking skills needs to create a picture of Chico in a Mean Green Sombrero)

I feel like someone has force-fed you some Green Kool-Aid.

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

(Also, fark up a picture of Todd Dodge putting mayo on a hamburger because he answered the all important 'mayo or mustard' question during the online thingy...after you're finished with your nanchuku practices, that is)

Edited March 19, 2010 by The Fake Lonnie Finch