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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5351173, member: 71"] Rice hasn't been very good in football since Homer Rice (coach, no relation to family the school is named after) and Tommy Kramer left for the NFL in the late 1970's. They are a very highly regarded academic school with a very small (about 4,600) undergraduate student body, which makes fielding a competitive football program extremely challenging. They are however located in Texas so football is important. As they have a longer competitive history than both Houston and Texas Tech, they likely won't be willing to give up on the idea of one day becoming competitive again. As JFK said in his inaugural address "Why does Rice compete with Texas? Not because it's easy, but because it's hard". I highly doubt they'll ever end up higher than in the AAC, but they have enough similarities to schools like Tulane and Tulsa that they can find a way to be satisfied with their fate. [/QUOTE]