ICYMI: AAC PREVIEW, PART ONE Rice

2024 Recap: Mike Bloomgren’s tenure at Rice effectively came to an end on June 20, 2023, when longtime Rice athletic director Joe Karlgaard announced that he would be stepping down from his post at the end of July. It’s never good for a sitting head coach to lose the athletic director who brought him in, but this was an especially significant departure, because Karlgaard was the definitive Bloomgren backer in Rice’s athletic department. They had worked together…