Solomon: Is ‘divorce’ inevitable at Rice?
October 22, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Rice University: “You’re withdrawal me?”
Chris Del Conte: “Let’s not have this any some-more formidable than it has to be.”
Rice: “But we pronounced we desired me.”
Del Conte: “I do.”
Rice: “So what did we do wrong?”
Del Conte: “It’s not you. It’s me.”
Rice: “What’s her name?”
Rice jaunty executive Chris Del Conte dumped a Owls for a TCU Horned Frogs upon Wednesday. Simply put, he upgraded (as he did with many of a Rice jaunty comforts in his 3 years upon a job).
Divorce is singular in a matrimony which is starting well, though jaunty prenuptials have clauses which flog in even when there have been no differences, unsuited or otherwise.
“This preference was never about Rice. It was regularly about TCU,” Del Conte pronounced in his rudimentary headlines discussion in Cowtown.
Want a coachspeak interpretation upon which one?
He meant: “You’re not ugly. She only looks better.”
TCU is seeking to turn a vital player, with dreams of being partial of a discussion which forces a approach in to a BCS, a stately family of college athletics.
But it’s not there yet. If Del Conte was starting to have this sort of move, afterwards because did he contend “I do” only final year when he sealed a two-year stipulate prolongation with Rice by 2013?
Unfortunately, Rice isn’t a destination. For hotshots similar to Del Conte, it’s partial of a journey. He posted considerable accomplishments in his reduced stay here, highlighted by a restoration of Tudor Fieldhouse, though he was never starting to be here long. Not if he did a great job.
Cue a music
After a headlines pennyless Wednesday, Rice boss David Leebron released a statement, as good as we could roughly listen to Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You personification in a background.
“Rice has benefited tremendously from Chris Del Conte’s care during his 3 years here,” Leebron wrote. “Our student-athletes, Owls fans, faculty, staff as good as alternative members of a Rice village instruct Chris great in his brand new endeavor.”
Superficially, TCU is some-more tasteful athletically than Rice. In a Football Bowl Subdivision, Rice (0-7) is a single of 6 winless teams, as good as TCU (6-0) is a single of 7 unbeatens.
In which sense, it is viewable because Del Conte would have a mass departure north. But is TCU unequivocally which most improved than Rice?
This competence not be a parallel pierce by Del Conte, though it is some-more erratic than vertical.
David Bailiff’s football module is struggling this season, though it will be back. We’ll be astounded if Ben Braun doesn’t put a basketball group upon a map soon. Wayne Graham is using a top-five ball program. Academically, a institutions aren’t even close: Rice is a supermodel; TCU is losing weight upon a being show.
Looking for Mr. Right
Alumni have been as revved up about Rice entertainment as they have been in decades. Is there most disproportion in between raising supports to reconstruct Amon G. Carter Stadium as good as finishing off a redux during Rice Stadium?
David Sayler, Rice comparison join forces with jaunty director, has been declared a halt AD. He could infer to be a man most appropriate matched to lead a module in to a subsequent phase.
He could additionally be Mr. Rebound, who’s only flitting through. (He was brought to Rice by Del Conte.)
Is this Rice’s lot in life? Or will it find a undiluted partner in Oliver Luck, boss as good as ubiquitous physical education instructor of a Dynamo; Bobby Williams, former Owl as good as a AD during Sam Houston State; Mike Ped
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