Rice assistant athletic director/sports information director Bill Cousins, who joined the staff in 1983, is leaving the school, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Cousins, the second full-time SID in Rice history, served as an assistant to Bill Whitmore before becoming his successor in 1984. Cousins was SID at West Texas State from 1974-77. In 1991, the Rice press box receiving an outstanding services award by the Football Writers Association of America.
Cousins is a native of Hobbs, N.M., and a 1971 journalism/mass communications graduate of New Mexico State University.