SBC, CUSA, Alliance...

GTWT · December 21, 2011

Not sure what you are basing this on. Rice did a study after the fall of the SWC and the vast majority of their donating alumni wanted to maintain FBS football at "some level."

From Wikipedia,

The streak followed an internally authorized 2003 McKinsey report that stated football alone was responsible for a $4 million deficit in 2002. Tensions remain high between the athletic department and faculty, as a few professors who chose to voice their opinion were in favor of abandoning the football program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University

I spent transfere a bit of time on the Rice campus and the attitude towards athletics, and especially football, is ambiguous at best. While I'm sure there are alumni who will push for football at any level, many of the faculty and students would love to see it dropped. Tell those folks they're going to be playing La-Monroe, Middle Tennessee, and Western Kentucky and watch their reaction. Institutions are judged by their associations. Rice will want no part of an association with the SBC.

Edited December 21, 2011 by GTWT

untjim1995 · December 21, 2011

Stop. Just stop. A bowl game at Apogee.
I love our school too, but lets come back to to earth on this one.

Could you imagine the attendance of a bowl game in Denton involving a SBC team and a MWC team? A game between Western Kentucky and UNLV might draw about 1500 people, including the bands. Now if said bowl could get a Big XII spot and get Texas or OU in there, Dentonites would probably fall all over themselves to get Apogee for the only time in their life. :angry: