Chron.com Article UH and Rice Positioning

[RE Tycoon]

I like this little exchange between the two schools. Sounds like things are getting a bit testy down in the Bayou City:

UH AD

As for UH, Thursday's announcement of the $160 million plan to build a football stadium and renovate Hofheinz Pavilion was blatant.

“We want the best chair possible (at the realignment table),” Rhoades said. “This is certainly critical in terms of positioning ourselves no matter what happens in the next couple of days, in the next six months.”

Rice AD

“My job is to position Rice in the best possible way and be consistent with our mission,” Greenspan said. “Some institutions are peddling themselves, out there with a sandwich board. That's not Rice.”

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spo ... 49020.html

[mrydel]

So Rice calls it a sandwich board and we call it an HD Scoreboard. I will still take our way over theirs.

[SMUstang]

It looks to me like college football is positioning itself as a mini-NFL. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but lower ticket prices, lower concession prices, lower parking fees, and more fan participation were attractive to me. It is unattractive to me to see schools whoring themselves, willing to do anything to get into a higher ranking conference. What happened to integrity? What is the purpose of college football? Is it strictly a money maker for the universities or is it a means for students who have athletic ability to win scholarships to go to college? The concept of the FCS instead of the FBS is not all that unattactive to me. That's just me.

[Pony_Fan]

It looks to me like college football is positioning itself as a mini-NFL. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but lower ticket prices, lower concession prices, lower parking fees, and more fan participation were attractive to me. It is unattractive to me to see schools whoring themselves, willing to do anything to get into a higher ranking conference. What happened to integrity? What is the purpose of college football? Is it strictly a money maker for the universities or is it a means for students who have athletic ability to win scholarships to go to college? The concept of the FCS instead of the FBS is not all that unattactive to me. That's just me.

Amen. This is all absurd. Too much money in "non-professional" sports. It is now a NFL type atmosphere with $5M+ a year in salaries, etc.

[mr. pony]

So where's the DMN's in-depth analysis on hometown SMU's prospects?
The East Coast & UT big-timers there obviously don't give a dime.

[SMUstang]

And we got the "death penalty" for paying players. Not that we didn't deserve it, but compared to what is going on today, it was mild.