I just learned Hughes chose Rice over A&M, Oregon, Indiana and Arizona. Clearly attracted a lot of interest.

I understand we also just recently picked up Mitchell Holcomb, Penn's Saturday starting pitcher the past 3 years (and a midweek starter his Freshman year), as a grad transfer. He's from Georgetown, TX. Here's his bio heading into this year...

https://pennathletics.com/sports/basebal...comb/16053

(04-28-2020 07:22 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  I just learned Hughes chose Rice over A&M, Oregon, Indiana and Arizona. Clearly attracted a lot of interest.

Too bad his first name is not Howard.

(04-29-2020 08:53 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-28-2020 07:22 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  I just learned Hughes chose Rice over A&M, Oregon, Indiana and Arizona. Clearly attracted a lot of interest.

Too bad his first name is not Howard.

(04-29-2020 08:53 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-28-2020 07:22 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  I just learned Hughes chose Rice over A&M, Oregon, Indiana and Arizona. Clearly attracted a lot of interest.

Too bad his first name is not Howard.

I sometimes wonder where Rice athletics would be today had T. Boone Pickens gone to Rice instead of Okie State.

(04-29-2020 10:25 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-29-2020 08:53 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-28-2020 07:22 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  I just learned Hughes chose Rice over A&M, Oregon, Indiana and Arizona. Clearly attracted a lot of interest.

Too bad his first name is not Howard.

I sometimes wonder where Rice athletics would be today had T. Boone Pickens gone to Rice instead of Okie State.

I wonder where we would be if I had become a multi-billionaire.

(04-29-2020 10:10 AM)Fountains of Wayne Graham Wrote:  

(04-29-2020 08:53 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-28-2020 07:22 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  I just learned Hughes chose Rice over A&M, Oregon, Indiana and Arizona. Clearly attracted a lot of interest.

Too bad his first name is not Howard.

Damned with faint praise.

Sounds like we are doing better at recruiting

(04-29-2020 11:03 PM)Texasowl Wrote:  Sounds like we are doing better at recruiting

Even before the recent transfer commits, the 2020 incoming class was shaping up as our best since the 2015 incoming class (Salinas, Gray, Chandler, Otto, Myers, Dunlap, Pettite, and Brewer). That class had 4 Top 200 ranked prospects (Salinas, Gray, Chandler, Amador, Frazier, Brewer), while Myers, Otto and Dunlap were all breakout stars for us.

(04-29-2020 08:53 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-28-2020 07:22 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  I just learned Hughes chose Rice over A&M, Oregon, Indiana and Arizona. Clearly attracted a lot of interest.

Too bad his first name is not Howard.

FTR, Howard Hughes did attend Rice briefly. But he left shortly after he was orphaned when his millionaire father died in January 1924. (His mother had died less than two years earlier.)

In December 1924, Hughes was successful in having himself (not yet 19 years old at the time) declared an adult so he could take control of his father's industry-leading oilfield tool company. He then married his Sunday School sweetheart (Ella Botts Rice, the great-niece of William March Rice) and took off for Hollywood, where he started making movies.

Hughes learned to play golf at age nine, and was a good golfer as a young adult. But mostly, he loved flying.

I did not find any mentions of him in the Thresher when he was a student at Rice. (But I haven't checked every issue.)

After Hughes died, one of the several wills that sprung up and were described in news stories would have apparently given Rice something like 1/32nd of Hughes' estate. President Hackerman gave an interesting rundown of the situation in his Nov. 14, 1977 State of the University Speech, which was recorded by KTRU. (Listen to is at 41:35-46:08 here: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/96768: "I'm not getting excited about it" but he said Rice had retained lawyers to "protect our interests if there are any interests to protect.")

Other sources:
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhu60
https://www.hugheshistoricdistrict.com/howard-hughes/
https://historycollection.co/fabulously-...-hughes/5/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/ho...hes-lives/

(04-30-2020 01:00 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(04-29-2020 08:53 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-28-2020 07:22 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  I just learned Hughes chose Rice over A&M, Oregon, Indiana and Arizona. Clearly attracted a lot of interest.

Too bad his first name is not Howard.

FTR, Howard Hughes did attend Rice briefly. But he left shortly after he was orphaned when his millionaire father died in January 1924. (His mother had died less than two years earlier.)

In December 1924, Hughes was successful in having himself (not yet 19 years old at the time) declared an adult so he could take control of his father's industry-leading oilfield tool company. He then married his Sunday School sweetheart (Ella Botts Rice, the great-niece of William March Rice) and took off for Hollywood, where he started making movies.

Hughes learned to play golf at age nine, and was a good golfer as a young adult. But mostly, he loved flying.

I did not find any mentions of him in the Thresher when he was a student at Rice. (But I haven't checked every issue.)

After Hughes died, one of the several wills that sprung up and were described in news stories would have apparently given Rice something like 1/32nd of Hughes' estate. President Hackerman gave an interesting rundown of the situation in his Nov. 14, 1977 State of the University Speech, which was recorded by KTRU. (Listen to is at 41:35-46:08 here: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/96768: "I'm not getting excited about it" but he said Rice had retained lawyers to "protect our interests if there are any interests to protect.")

Other sources:
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhu60
https://www.hugheshistoricdistrict.com/howard-hughes/
https://historycollection.co/fabulously-...-hughes/5/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/ho...hes-lives/

Just think what a fabulous career he could have had if he hadn't been a college drop out.

Let me remind you that this is a baseball recruiting thread.

(04-30-2020 08:27 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Let me remind you that this is a baseball recruiting thread.

Tangents - one thing at which the Parliament excels.

Jared Pettitte (UH) has entered the transfer portal.

Another Andy Petite’s son. It looks like he has been battling injuries his whole collegiate career as a pitcher.

(04-30-2020 01:40 PM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  Jared Pettitte (UH) has entered the transfer portal.

(04-30-2020 09:44 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 08:27 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Let me remind you that this is a baseball recruiting thread.

Tangents - one thing at which the Parliament excels.

I’m rather partial to cosecants, myself. But I do enjoy a nice tangent now and then as well.

(05-01-2020 02:24 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 09:44 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 08:27 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Let me remind you that this is a baseball recruiting thread.

Tangents - one thing at which the Parliament excels.

I’m rather partial to cosecants, myself. But I do enjoy a nice tangent now and then as well.

(05-01-2020 02:24 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 09:44 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 08:27 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Let me remind you that this is a baseball recruiting thread.

Tangents - one thing at which the Parliament excels.

I’m rather partial to cosecants, myself. But I do enjoy a nice tangent now and then as well.

But only secant and tangent are in the Rice athletic cheer. Keep it Rice sports centric.

(05-01-2020 04:23 PM)ruowls Wrote:  

(05-01-2020 02:24 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 09:44 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 08:27 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Let me remind you that this is a baseball recruiting thread.

Tangents - one thing at which the Parliament excels.

I’m rather partial to cosecants, myself. But I do enjoy a nice tangent now and then as well.

But only secant and tangent are in the Rice athletic cheer. Keep it Rice sports centric.

Don’t forget cosign!

(05-01-2020 04:43 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(05-01-2020 04:23 PM)ruowls Wrote:  

(05-01-2020 02:24 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 09:44 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 08:27 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Let me remind you that this is a baseball recruiting thread.

Tangents - one thing at which the Parliament excels.

I’m rather partial to cosecants, myself. But I do enjoy a nice tangent now and then as well.

But only secant and tangent are in the Rice athletic cheer. Keep it Rice sports centric.

Don’t forget cosign!

Nothing better than a sine sign at a Rice game.