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Message: [QUOTE="Jetskies, post: 5351079, member: 12253"] great comment, thx Kolumbo. 1) it's true, you never know. But i personally don't see it happening. Rice reminds me of a FBS version of an NYU or Johns Hopkins - these schools have athletics and "all the money in the world" ($6B and $13B endowment respectively), but simply do not see athletics as a priority to toss real cash toward. JHU could have made it to the B1G long back before this current CR era, if they'd elevated fully to D1, and been another northwestern; they are already in B1G for lacrosse. But, they know who they are and have repeatedly refused to put real money there. It's about medicine and research; that's where the bread is buttered. Rice sees these institutions as their peers, and I think they've decided to pursue closer to that model, than a vandy/northwestern model. why spend the money just to be OK? we gain nothing from that, so just put that toward our moneymakers (academics) and just have athletics for the sake of it. Rice Baseball is a thing, otherwise who cares... Just my opinion, maybe they wake up and decide they want to get a slice of the Houston sports scene - but again, why? look at UHouston, they're fighting for their lives to be UT Austin's replacement in Big12 (a fool's errand), and I don't really see them making too much dent in the overall city's sports scene. Rice is IN texas, but IMO they're not a "Texas" school, if you catch my drift. 2) magnolia conference is a beautiful vision - in another life I'd have loved to see an FBS ivy, or perhaps a "patriot league" - top schools with heavy research & prestige, banding together to compete based on those similar values (dont overspend on athletics, but still do it, and maybe get the occasional representative in the CFP) --- indeed it's an out-there proposition. Rice would fit in perfectly with cal/stanford/northwestern/vandy, etc. [/QUOTE]

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