(03-07-2022 10:54 PM)owl40 Wrote:  Bernard Muir has been AD at Stanford for more than a decade. If he were to leave, I think JK would be a great replacement for him. JK is a good, capable AD who is best to make kaizen improvements around-the-edges and keep the car on-the-road.

The problem is that Rice car is not on the road in the major sports. It is in the ditch. It does not need a JK type of leader for athletics. As most here know, different types of leaders are needed for different situations.

Rice needs a change agent to fix the many decades of decay. Those decades of decay were not on his watch. But JK is not a change agent. He is a risk averse, steady set of hands and not the guy for this specific situation. He is going to manage his brand, his career, and try to do the best he can for this set of circumstances..but he is square peg, round hole for a tricky/difficult situation that needs bolder, riskier leadership than he is going to provide. And while he has not gotten the car out-of-the-ditch for the Rice athletic brand, he also did not put it there either.

Those that blame JK are putting their blame in the wrong direction. Blame the leader that hired the wrong type of leader for the job, not the guy who was hired. I disagree with those here that think otherwise.

Hope the new President and BoT can align on the skills needed to fix the problem to the skills of the person that is hired to fix it. That is the gap we have today. A middle-of-the-fairway AD type like JK is not the skill set needed for this specific instance.

I don't think Karlgaard is a good AD at all. When he applied for the job, he knew the magnitude of the task in front of him, and he must have firmly believed that he had the ability to turn it around, or he wouldn't have pursued the position.
Rice needs someone with some real FBS experience at it's helm. It needs to quit rolling the dice on unproven commodities. Pay someone a decent salary to come in and clean up this mess. We'll be in the AAC soon, and we can't wait around, just hoping that things start to improve. It's clear that Karlgaard is not up to the challenge. He belongs at a lower level of competition.

(03-07-2022 10:54 PM)owl40 Wrote:  Bernard Muir has been AD at Stanford for more than a decade. If he were to leave, I think JK would be a great replacement for him. JK is a good, capable AD who is best to make kaizen improvements around-the-edges and keep the car on-the-road.

The problem is that Rice car is not on the road in the major sports. It is in the ditch. It does not need a JK type of leader for athletics. As most here know, different types of leaders are needed for different situations.

Rice needs a change agent to fix the many decades of decay. Those decades of decay were not on his watch. But JK is not a change agent. He is a risk averse, steady set of hands and not the guy for this specific situation. He is going to manage his brand, his career, and try to do the best he can for this set of circumstances..but he is square peg, round hole for a tricky/difficult situation that needs bolder, riskier leadership than he is going to provide. And while he has not gotten the car out-of-the-ditch for the Rice athletic brand, he also did not put it there either.

Those that blame JK are putting their blame in the wrong direction. Blame the leader that hired the wrong type of leader for the job, not the guy who was hired. I disagree with those here that think otherwise.

Hope the new President and BoT can align on the skills needed to fix the problem to the skills of the person that is hired to fix it. That is the gap we have today. A middle-of-the-fairway AD type like JK is not the skill set needed for this specific instance.

How about also blaming the committee that recommended Karlgard and the committee that recommended Greenspan. It’s not like Leebron hired those two in a vacuum.

After a nearly clean 1st two innings, the Owls decide to be generous again with 2 walks and a 2 out infield single (looked like an error to me) plates a run for TT. 0-1 going to B3.

Weather looks miserable at the Reck.

After a leadoff single, Dunlap watches what appeared to be a foul popup to 1B get blown back into fair territory. Should be 2 on and no outs, but TT was able to get the out at 1st because Dunlap didn’t run hard. Grrrr!

I don’t care how talented or untalented this group of players may be, the lack of fundamentals for supposed D1 players is baffling. Dunlap’s behind would be on the bench if the OG was still coaching.

Single to center and an E8 ties it up. Owls should be up 2-1. Grrrr!

CORRECTION: Dunlap had the leadoff single. Bulman failed to run on the wind blown pop-up.

Walk, FC and an E8 (dropped lazy fly ball by Walsh) puts TT 2-1. TT runner wasn’t standing around watching with 2 outs.

(03-11-2022 08:37 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  After a leadoff single, Dunlap watches what appeared to be a foul popup to 1B get blown back into fair territory. Should be 2 on and no outs, but TT was able to get the out at 1st because Dunlap didn’t run hard. Grrrr!

I don’t care how talented or untalented this group of players may be, the lack of fundamentals for supposed D1 players is baffling. Dunlap’s behind would be on the bench if the OG was still coaching.

Single to center and an E8 ties it up. Owls should be up 2-1. Grrrr!

Dunlap led off the inning with a single. Bulman was the culprit.

Walk, single, infield single loads bases for Owls in B4, but K ends the threat. Owls have out hit TT 6-2 thur 4 innings, but trail 2-1.

Walk, rbi double end Chandler’s night in T5. Zaskoda in to pitch for the Owls.

Another walk, single, double blown the game open for TT. 6-1 TT going to B5.

4 runs in for the inning. Now 6-1

More errors. Now 8-1

In T6, a BB, 2 singles and 2 Owl errors put 2 more unearned runs on the board.

The lack of basic baseball execution is sadly laughable. Owl baseball has a long way to go to even get back to respectability.

You gotta feel really bad for our pitchers. Chandler should have been up at least 1-0 after 4 innings. Instead he was down 2-1, due to a dropped fly ball and the first run scoring from second base on a ball that never got through the infield. And don't even get me started on Bulman not running out the infield pop, which the wind blew into fair territory before it was dropped. We would have had runners on 1B and 2B, no outs, and two runs would have scored on Smigelski's single.

(03-11-2022 09:10 PM)RiceOwl Wrote:  

(03-11-2022 08:37 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  After a leadoff single, Dunlap watches what appeared to be a foul popup to 1B get blown back into fair territory. Should be 2 on and no outs, but TT was able to get the out at 1st because Dunlap didn’t run hard. Grrrr!

I don’t care how talented or untalented this group of players may be, the lack of fundamentals for supposed D1 players is baffling. Dunlap’s behind would be on the bench if the OG was still coaching.

Single to center and an E8 ties it up. Owls should be up 2-1. Grrrr!

Dunlap led off the inning with a single. Bulman was the culprit.

You are correct. I amended the post.

Now 5 errors. Now 10-1 after lead off home run in top of 9th.

We issued 8 walks and 2 HBPs as well

Final line ….

TT - 10 runs (6 earned), 9 hits including 2 doubles and 1 HR, 2 errors

Owls - 1 run, 8 hits (all singles) and FIVE ERRORS!

(03-11-2022 10:47 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Final line ….

TT - 10 runs (6 earned), 9 hits including 2 doubles and 1 HR, 2 errors

Owls - 1 run, 8 hits (all singles) and FIVE ERRORS!

Should have been only 5 earned. That first run against Chandler was a mental error on Reidel after not fielding the ball cleanly. No way that runner should have scored from 2B.

(03-11-2022 10:51 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(03-11-2022 10:47 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Final line ….

TT - 10 runs (6 earned), 9 hits including 2 doubles and 1 HR, 2 errors

Owls - 1 run, 8 hits (all singles) and FIVE ERRORS!

Should have been only 5 earned. That first run against Chandler was a mental error on Reidel after not fielding the ball cleanly. No way that runner should have scored from 2B.

Agreed, as I said in the original post. Play should have been made cleanly, but the slip and boot and then throwing to 1st way late to allow the runner to score from 2B was just fundamentally unsound baseball. Not sure how that was scored a hit.

(03-11-2022 10:47 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Final line ….

TT - 10 runs (6 earned), 9 hits including 2 doubles and 1 HR, 2 errors

Owls - 1 run, 8 hits (all singles) and FIVE ERRORS!

From the UH game thread my Tech O/U prediction:
‘What’s the O/U for Tech runs this weekend? And how many being unearned? I’ll go with 39 with 10 being unearned.”

Looks like my error prediction might be a bit low.

One inning, one error, one unearned run. Down 1-0 after one.