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Message: [QUOTE="MilfordHusky, post: 2169903, member: 366"] The folks at Rice have lofty goals. They want to think of themselves as an Ivy. They aren't, but they are close. They are in Texas, so football is a must. Their stadium has a capacity roughly equal to 100 years of alumni, living and dead. It makes no sense to those of us outside Texas. Rice was the setting for JFK's famous speech about putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. He asks, "Why does Rice play Texas?" Then he goes on to say that we do these things, including putting a man on the moon, because they are difficult. Rice had success in baseball for several years. They were a perennial top-10 team and won the College World Series in 2003. Most of their talent came from Texas. They still have the same coach, but the team has dropped out of the rankings and had a losing record the last time I looked. Famous players included Lance Berkman, Jose Cruz, Jr., Jeff Nieman, David Aardsma, and Philip Humber (a limited MLB career that included a perfect game). [/QUOTE]