Rice will either make a regional or be on the bubble next year….Pierce ain’t about losing.
And there are several guys that would be an immediate improvement over TW.
Now is the time to make the move….schollys going up to 34 next year….get someone in here ASAP with a fresh start….TW is a joke.
You want to see a total cluster? Let him hang around next year with 34 scholarships to hand out….20 of them will be fringe D-1 or D-2 players wearing the uniform next year.
I think it will take Rice a little bit longer because of their entrance requirements. Pierce knows how to win there, though, so he will win there sooner than later.
When did his wife get sick? I can’t remember.
I can’t believe there is anybody out there who would want TW to keep his job. There are so many candidates who would take this job who will be better head coaches at UH than TW, and it is not even close. I am not even convinced that if TW stays the powers that be will give him the full 34 next year.
I completely forgot about them not dropping the academic requirements….you are absolutely right.
I still don’t think it takes him long….baseball kids are usually pretty good students.
I wish we would have hired Pierce
Rice definitely lowers entrance requirements for athletes. They’ll be good again.
I’ve known a couple athletes and they aren’t like the kid I know with a perfect SAT and summa cum laude who was turned down. Doing okay at McCombs.
Yep. Always have, to some extent, at least since the 80s.
Well I know for a fact they didn’t lower the requirements for Jarrett Dillard.
First hand knowledge of same. In some cases, MUCH lower standards.
I believe they lower them but not to the extent that other kids can get at other programs.
Rice won when they let baseball skirt the admissions - they went back to watching and see the results - oddly enough every other private school in G5 and P4 does it without batting an eye
Well it’s a good thing most of our universities have enough sense not to care about actually doing University things. There’s too much money in these legalized slush funds to move around while effectively avoiding accountability. Could you imagine if we still tried to educate responsible citizens who were competent to share the responsibility to manage society?
Apologize that i missed it. I haven’t checked UH baseball in weeks. What was “the incident” thst happened?
I remember quite a few saying that last year.
I can’t believe that it hasn’t leaked out anywhere why in the world CTW is still running the baseball program. There’s got to be a reason.
I assume Jarrett Dillard wasn’t a top student or economically disadvantaged. Gotta at least be honor roll and top 10% or quarter.
However, a non-hooked top 10% kid isn’t going to sniff Rice admission while being auto to A&M engineering.
Dillard was extremely economic disadvantaged and also at the top of his class.
I thought you meant a baseball player named Jarett Dillard but you meant THE Jarett Dillard. If he was top of the class and economically disadvantaged, he’s a prototypical Rice admit as a student who just happened to be an athlete.
I knew a guy who wasn’t economically disadvantaged who had “Academic All-District honors” before being admitted to play Rice hoops. The guy in his class (doctor kid) who had a perfect SAT and summa cum laude was turned down.
I’m a bit surprised that more people don’t try to attend Rice to play sports, given how phenomenal the education is. That said, most athletes major in “athlete friendly” majors. Div I sports is very time consuming. Even at U of Tulsa, a scholarship sprinter was told to focus more on track at the expense of pre-nursing curriculum.
Yes, JD is a really impressive guy.
Valedictorian and now a lawyer.
Is one of your relatives at TU?
Nah. My daughter tried to run track at SMU and a HS teammate’s sister was at TU. She wasn’t providing team points and was a junior.
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