HOUSTON (Sept. 18) – It’s well worthwhile to take a look at the stat sheet when considering the implications of Rice’s 33-21 win over the University of Louisiana – Lafayette here Saturday evening.

Even a recounting of Owl miscues underscores  an inevitable conclusion:  this South Main bunch just laid the wood to University of Louisiana's 15-game win streak, heretofore the longest extant in NCAA Division 1. The Ragin Cajuns just got the hell beat out of them...
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HOUSTON (Sept. 11) – How about let’s just savor this one?

After all, it’s been 14 years since the last time our Boys from the Institute hung such a one-sided victory over an opponent. Then it was North Texas; this time it was a bunch from casino-studded climes of southwestern-most Louisiana, as the Owls flattened McNeese State, 52-10, on a warm, pleasant Indian summer evening at newly-renovated Rice Stadium.

After something of a slow start, it was all Owls, as they converted five Cowboy turnovers into points en route to that 52 point total.
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All of you by now must be well-versed in this football philosophy.  It presupposes equal, if not superior, athletic wherewithal compared to one’s opponent.  It seeks to impose an intellectual form of brutality that bends the enemy to one’s very straightforward dictates.  It depends little upon artifice, upon doing the unexpected, upon unconventional and atypical tactics.

Patton was a Plan A sort of guy.  So was General Ulysses S. Grant.

Mike Bloomgren had, and ought continue to have, reason for optimism going into this, his fifth campaign on South Main.  A more experienced squad awaited this year’s opponents of the Feathered Flock, with better size and speed, more steeped in his coaching philosophy, and with a tantalizing array of skill players on both sides of the ball. So why not dance with who brung you?
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