re: No More Tulane on the Football schedule....

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I like playing Tulane.

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I'm with you, in theory.

However, their program has become such an embarassment that it's almost impossible to agree with you at all in reality.

They can't get 2000 of their own fans to watch them play a top 10 ranked team AT HOME.

I can remember when they actually had a semblence of a local fanbase. As much as I hate to say it, it's really sad.

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I like playing Tulane.

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I like seeing LSU play in the Dome. It's one of the few times I can see LSU play.

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I'm with you, in theory.

However, their program has become such an embarassment that it's almost impossible to agree with you at all in reality.

They can't get 2000 of their own fans to watch them play a top 10 ranked team AT HOME.

I can remember when they actually had a semblence of a local fanbase. As much as I hate to say it, it's really sad.

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When I was at LSU we went 2-2 vs those jokers,so that's one reason I see it a little differently than most.

I watched some of that BYU game Saturday. Their attendance was just pitiful.A solid team coming to down in the afternoon ? No excuse for them to not have had 30,000.

It is a shame in someways. Tulane's support is just awful. I feel for their fans (as few as there are) that do support them.Tulane means as much to them as LSU does us. I was at the 2006 game at TS and they "may" have had 1,000 people.

Why hasn't anybody mentioned that we will be opening the season next year with a good UNC team?

A lot of Tulane grads don't stay or aren't from LA though unlike LSU. There are many reasons why they have people in the stands but I imagine that is the biggest.

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i'd rather play tulane than northwestern st or mcneese

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agreed

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I'm with you, in theory.

However, their program has become such an embarassment that it's almost impossible to agree with you at all in reality.

They can't get 2000 of their own fans to watch them play a top 10 ranked team AT HOME.

I can remember when they actually had a semblence of a local fanbase. As much as I hate to say it, it's really sad.

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Well, given how the game turned out, it probably stands to reason that nobody showed up.

This is really a pretty sad development and I think some of it has to do with the decline of New Orleans as a city, both pre-Katrina and post-Katrina.

Tulane's student body has always come primarily from outside Louisiana and much of it from outside the South, but there still seemed to be some identification of New Orleanians with the school and the sports programs.

I guess that is gone, although it was barely a decade ago that Tulane finished the season with a Top Ten ranking while LSU was still in the nether-regions of the SEC.

So things CAN change. After all, who would have guessed that Ole Miss would have passed LSU up one year after you won a national championship and we went 0-8 in the SEC?

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I'd rather they bring me a sammich from Darryl's

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this. god I use to love those things

The issue was less playing Tulane and more them not wanting to play us in Tiger Stadium.

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Thanks LSU. You've replaced a shitty Tulane game with 2 other shitty games. Congrats

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