(12-09-2017 01:16 PM)exowlswimmer Wrote:  Rice has made a great (FC) hire and is a perfect fit as a private school in one of the divisions in the current P4. Resources are there, and the footprint opens Texas to the B10, PAC12 or ACC. A Rice add to the SEC enhances the Texas footprint for the SEC and adds a second private for the conference.

Rice is certainly the top academic university in Texas and one of the best in America, but in football, not so much.

Rice won 1 game this season, and moving to a Power conference is all about football. Rice is the smallest FBS program, and because of that small exclusive fan base, they have serious issues with attendance. The power conferences are all about money. Rice monetary value on the field isn't close to what those Power conferences are looking for. The only chance Rice will ever have of getting a promotion to a Power conference is if a very wealthy, or a group of very wealthy supporters, open their wallets and buy them into a better situation.