re: Tulane Price Gouging

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Sucks.
LSU has been forced to support Tulane athletics like this for years.
Yet another reason why LSU needs to ditch the football home and home w/ Tulane. Pay them to come here and take their beating like we pay ULaLA, LaTech and Troy (oucH). They are no different athletically.

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Just don't go to the game if you think it is too expensive. You are wrong about Tulane athletically. They have a good baseball team (perhaps not this year though) and are a former football SEC team and, whether you think so or not, they are our rivals. They are a PRIVATE UNIVERSITY with very high academic standards. They are more akin to Vandy or Rice than to ULL or LA TECH athletically. ULL is a joke and La. Tech is on the rise, but will never be able to compete at Division I level. In the past 20 years Tulane has had excellent coaches like Mack Brown, Greg Davis, Tommy Bowden, Rich Rodriguez and now Bob Toledo. What coaches have you seen at ULL that compare? Ricky Bussle?

We play there because they, unlike La. Tech and ULL, have an excellent football venue, THE SUPERDOME. Where do ULL and La. Tech play? They couldn't even handle our crowd. Tulane has had a couple good football seasons in the recent past (including one perfect one, something LSU hasn't done since 1958). ULL went 6-5 once.

Obviously, they are not the tigers, but Tulane's academnic admissions standards and class work is much higher than most of our athletes could handle. In the history of LSU Football, the tigers have 68 wins against Tulane, 22 losses to Tulane and there have been 7 ties. What is our record against ULL and La. Tech? At least Tulane is competitive.

My point is not that Tulane is great Athletically, but they are in a different class of team and university than ULL and La. Tech and Troy and it is just insulting to say otherwise. Academically, they are in a different universe than ULL and La. Tech (I don't know much about Troy).

I must admit that I am a graduate of both LSU (undergraduate) and Tulane (post graduate) and I think it is insulting to both to compare them to the likes of ULL in any manner.