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Rice Baseball 2025: MLB Owls Update – July 2

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The 2025 MLB season is underway and Rice baseball alums are making the most of their time in The Show. Here’s the latest from the MLB Owls.

Dane Myers – Miami Marlins

Another week, another thrilling play by Dane Myers, helping to encapsulate a truly remarkable season by the former Rice baseball great. This time, the big moment came on the basepaths, complementing another strong week in the field and with his bat.

Myers is on the All-Star Ballot. You can vote for him up to five times a day using this link.

Through July 2, Myers is hitting .298 with 12 extra-base hits, 12 walks and 41 strikeouts. His OPS is .770 and he’s collected 20 RBI.

Injured List

Anthony Rendon – Los Angeles Angels

Rendon is slated to miss a significant amount of time following him surgery this spring. The bad news is another bump in an injury-plagued stint with the Angels; Rendon missed a chunk of last season with an oblique strain.

Matt Canterino – Twins AAA

Canterino was thought to have a real chance to crack the big league roster at some point this season, converting himself to a reliver this offseason in hopes of limiting the stress on his arm and preserving his health. Unfortunately, he’s set to miss a third consecutive season, undergoing shoulder surgery in early March. The Twins since released him and signed him to a minor league contract while he rehabs.

Knocking on the Door

The following Owls began the season in AAA:

  • Tristan Gray – Charlotte Knights (White Sox)
  • Evan Kravetz – Louisville Bats (Reds)
  • Glenn Otto – Sugar Land Space Cowboys (Astros)
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2025 Rice Football Opponent Season Preview: North Texas

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Three years into his time at Denton, it’s about time for Eric Morris to start turning progress into wins. What can Rice Football expect from the Mean Green in 2025?

Head Coach: Eric Morris
Record at School: 11-14 (2 Yr) | Career FBS Record 11-14 (2 Yr)
Offensive Coordinator: Jordan Davis | Defensive Coordinator: Skyler Cassity

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College Football Returning Production woes in the AAC

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Returning Production, or the lack thereof, is a clear hallmark of what life will be like in the AAC and the Group of 5/6 for college football going forward.

ESPN’s Bill Connelly updated his key college football metrics following the spring portal cycle and, usurpingly, the biggest brands from the SEC and the Big Ten sat atop most of the rankings. What didn’t stand out as clearly at the time — at least to my naked eye — was the impact the modern landscape has had on team building at the lower levels of the sport.

Returning Production seeks to approximate the meaningful contributors from last year’s team who are still on the roster for the upcoming season. It’s not a perfect measure — returning every player from a bad team still likely leads to a bad team — but it does demonstrate which programs pose to gain the most from continuity and experience.

As I began my preparations for the upcoming season preview series, I noticed just how little returning production most AAC teams had. So many key pieces are gone, either to the Transfer Portal of the NFL Draft, leaving the AAC flush with teams installing so many new players this offseason.

Connelly puts just seven AAC programs in the top 100 nationally in returning production. Three crack the top 60. Here’s the full list:

Nat. RkAAC RkTeamConfRet ProdOff RkDef Def Rk
111USF AAC67%69%2266%19
272UTSA AAC64%82%246%89
353Navy AAC63%74%1452%73
664Temple AAC55%65%3945%96
765Tulane AAC52%49%8456%57
776Tulsa AAC52%46%9358%51
887N TexasAAC49%44%9855%65
1018Army AAC43%36%12051%80
1039ECU AAC43%51%7735%117
10510UAB AAC43%43%10343%101
11011FAU AAC41%50%7932%127
11312Rice AAC41%36%12246%91
11513Memphis AAC40%39%11441%108
11814Charlotte AAC38%35%12340%109

It’s no coincidence that the top three programs (USF, UTSA and Navy) all return their starting quarterbacks and several key skill players. That USF also brings back so many key defenders gives the Bulls a better starting point, at least from a roster construction standpoint, than most if not all of their conference peers.

How this plays out on the field this fall remains to be seen, but the era of slow builds and roster continuity seems long past, at least at this level of the sport. When your program does get the luxury of “running it back”, you better not miss. The odds of you getting that much continuity again soon are slim to none.

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2025 Rice Football Opponent Season Preview: UTSA

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UTSA was relatively quiet a season ago, but the program has plans for a resurgent season. What can Rice Football expect from the Roadrunners in 2025?

Head Coach: Jeff Traylor
Record at School: 46-20 (5 Yr) | Career FBS Record 46-20 (5 Yr)
Offensive Coordinator: Justin Burke | Defensive Coordinator: Jess Loepp

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The Roost Podcast | Ep 203 – 2025 Rice Football Opponent Previews: North Texas

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The 2025 Rice Football season previews march on. This week, we’re joined by JD Davis to talk North Texas and the Owls’ upcoming reunion with the Mean Green.

The fifth edition of our Rice Football opponent summer preview series is in your podcast feeds. First time visitor JD Davis who covers North Texas for the the North Texas Eagle joins the show to refresh us on the Mean Green and all that’s happened in Denton since the last time the Owls met this program on the gridiron. Listen in.

You can find previous episodes on the podcast page. For now, give a listen to Episode 203.

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Rice Football Opponent Preview: North Texas

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  • Importing a defense
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  • The Lightning Round

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