(12-09-2017 04:33 PM)Wedge Wrote:  If you're comparing to Stanford or TCU: Each of those programs have received more than $100 million in donations to athletics over the last 10 years or so.

For both the investment to upgrade their programs preceded the donations. Stanford made that decision in the 1990s.and it took a decade before it started to pay off, and they rose from the P12 cellar.

Rice has the same kind of high end donor base that would contribute to athletics if there was success and emphasis on it. Right now that emphasis on excellence in athletics is not there.

But note, I am also saying the clock is ticking, and they are running out of time, especially when you consider the lag before you see real success on the court and in the field.