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

When was McNeese added to the schedule?

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Tulane board's reaction:

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i wish the green wave was still on schedule...
playing in the dome in new orleans has been good for lsu ....i guess because although we won
there was some crazy games over the years...i can remember being in new orleans in the early
90's ..dome was packed ..i believe sammy martin
scored in last seconds for win...playing teams
in lower division doesn't sound that great

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Tulane board's reaction:

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Pretty much what I expected. I'm glad we are done with them. I did not like the deal with them and glad it has been cancelled.

For about half a second I felt for their fans, but I got over it in a hurry. It is sad how few people attend their games and how they don't even make the trip to Baton Rouge to see the game. I do remember as a kid when this was still a strong rivalry and how it was when I was at LSU.

Tulane won't have a football program 6 years from now, IMO.

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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.

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My perception is that Tulane has shifted its focus from being a Louisiana-based school to being focused on the Northeast for its students. So a lot of students are not particularly interested in college football, and as alums they are certainly not going to travel from other parts of the country to attend games, and there are fewer New Orleans and regional alums percentage-wise to make up the critical mass necessary for a strong fan base.

My perception may be based more on the law school's make-up than the undergrad, but if you don't have a lot of alums within close proximity, you aren't going to get a crowd. Miami stuggles with attendance (obviously not as badly), but I suspect partly for the same reasons. Miami alums aren't necessarily in the Miami area and are unlikely to travel long distances reguarly for home games. Non alums in Miami, and likely in New Orleans, are not going to be strong supporters and attendees at college games.

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I see them just dismantling the football program. This should probably happen shortly.

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I have been waiting on this too.

I don't think anyone is surprised it happened. To be honest I don't think Tulane fans really care. It was only a rivalry when the two schools actually had students from in state. LSU is %90+ in state and Tulane is probably <10% in state.

For the people wondering why there was noone in the stands for the BYU game. If you had been there for the Tulsa beatdown, you can understand why noone came back for the second game. You have to love the reasoning given though. Whoever is responsible for PR at LSU is one hell of a liar. I'll take a billion dollar endowment over a multi million dollar athletic program anyday.

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It's true that back in the 60's and 70's the city was pretty well split allegiance wise between LSU and Tulane, but that changed when Tulane's student body became so completely made up of northeasterners and floridians.

The Times Picayune actually had an interesting story on this a few years back. It explained the change in Tulane's approach to admissions and why they did it.

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Better students. They're taking the best students they can get regardless of where they're from. I guess that means focusing on the NE, although that is somewhat of a fallacy. They draw students from all over. I believe the entering freshmen class this year had students from 49 states, only missing Vermont.

McNeese is a better team than Tulane

..I don't see the point of playing NWST though. We're mediocre even for a I-AA team. I guess it's the Bradley Dale invitational