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  1. I've been a huge Rolling Stones fan for years as have a lot of people. I don't know how many people really understood how important Charlie watts was to the stones development it may not make sense to many but I have the opinion that Charlie was as true drumming as Stevie ray Vaughn was the guitar,

    inasmuch as he was technically proficient and a very good drummer but still approached it in a reckless rock and roll and creative way that led so much to the Stone's unique sound and development into the  Worlds greatest rock and roll band .

    This board has plenty of musicians that will explain it better but the way the stones had Keith Richards on rhythm guitar set the pace and then Charlie and Bill  followed him was unique to the Stones but it's amazing that Charlie watts had the skill to do that. 

     

    RIP

     

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  2. 42 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

    Bud Adams bought the Oilers for $25,000, attempted to extort the county, before shipping the team to Tennessee. A few years later, the County happily funded a new stadium for a different team.

    He died in 2013 and is buried in Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery. Caretakers there complain that so many people have pissed on his grave that they’re having a tough time keeping it dry enough for people to dance on it.

    he was negotiating with the City for the land where toyota center is today as the Harris County/ Houston Sports Authority did not exist at the time it was really a personal grudge between he from Bob shit for brains Lanier  that resulted in the Houston Oilers leaving

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  3. 1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

    Well that's something I guess (St. Thomas).

    How did that work out for San Diego St.? Gwynn was adequate at best and has the worst winning percentage of any coach in SDSU history.

    not trying to debate you. Just offering some facts. Berkman has more experience than none. Former players including some he has coached speak highly of him. 

    But I don;t think its Lance, Im hoping Hallmark, or VanHook

  4. 2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    The Rice alumni and fan obsession with hiring Berkman is wild. Forget politics, the guy doesn't deserve a D1 head coaching gig just because he was a MLB all star. He seems to actively be avoiding actual college coaching and hoping someone will just hire him to a head spot. Contrast that with Tulowitzki's approach.

    Berkman was the hitting coach at Saint Thomas this season, he has his much head coaching experience is Tony Gwynn did before San Diego State.  Berkman is mentioned as in the mix at Rice ,but he's likely going to take the HBU job( a much better cultural fit). Theres no surprise that Braggas gone, some surprise it was now.

    As mentioned Hallmark has a lot of support from former players and some donors ,Again with Berkman theres a chance maybe as hitting Coach. Childress was unexpected but from what we hear the is mutual interest 

     

     

     

  5. 13 hours ago, torre said:

    Agree !

    Are you familiar with the Rice program ?    Does the AD control, alumni, Berkman, anyone or there divisions  ?      Good for the State if they return to prominence.

    Our resident Owl,  @OWLVIS had some health issues.    Hope he is doing well.

    Thank for the thought, I'm improving but as with a stroke it's very slow progress. 

    As to the issue at hand. The falloff with baseball preceded Bragga, and it was predictable. He wasn't a fit  to the culture. The donor base wanted a Rice guy and those that fit the criteria either weren't available ( Piece) or lacked enough experience ( Hallmark) or the PC police would object ( Berkman) . Add Childress in the mix because he's proven and available  now might explain the suddenness of the move. Or it could be an assistant that they had their eye on and the AD feared the window was closing.

     

    They need to get this right, the frmr players seem to rallying to Hallmark/Berkman. Maybe Petite joins as pitching Coach

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  6. 13 hours ago, Lobo said:

    FWIW, someone told me about 10 years ago that he and some colleagues felt, that if they could get some local help, they could make an MLB franchise work in Austin-San Antonio.  With the stadium somewhere in between.  This was also during yet another rumored phase of expansion for MLB.  This man has strong ties to Texas (particularly the City of Houston and the University of Texas System).  I spoke with him 2+ years ago and he had changed his tune.  They felt that a city-centric stadium would make the most sense (somewhere near Central Austin, but not the Domain) and that relocating a struggling franchise (TBR, PIT, MIA, KCR, MIL, CIN) was the preferred route rather than wait 10-15 years for another expansion phase.  He hasn't said a word about it again...but he should know...he owns a large chunk of the Washington Nationals.  

    FZ?

  7. 30 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    One of the Riciest things ever is that Larry McMurtry is so strongly associated with Rice (one of its top 5 most famous alumni, easily) but could not get his undergrad there (because of math; he did get a Masters there), and also that the school now has a McMurtry residential college....which is named after one Burt McMurtry, no kin to Larry. It's like of New Orleans named their airport after Louis Armstrong, obscure parish commissioner, rather than the jazz superstar. It was only today that I learned that about McMurtry College. 

    Yeah ,Rice mathematics has taken many a lesser mind but none greater that McMurtrys . I know a few older Alum that recall drinking at Kays with him when he was teaching. The old Texas shaped table there had all the Mercury astronauts names scrawled into it .When I would drink there i was easy to imagine them or a drunk Dave Ward at the bar.

    Well didn't have the imagine Dave

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