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re: Will Tulane ever make it to a bowl again?
Posted on 4/12/13 at 5:33 pm to WalkingTurtles
Posted on 4/12/13 at 5:33 pm to WalkingTurtles
quote:Magnolia
There was talk then of a southern Ivy League with Duke, Tulane, Rice, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and others but that fell through.
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Posted on 4/12/13 at 6:22 pm to WalkingTurtles
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Tulane left the SEC because of the cost of running a major athletic dept as well as wanting to focus on academics. Also they were not competitive their last decade in the conference.
Yep. And back then, the NCAA arbitrarily decided which programs were allowed to be promoted on TV and which ones weren't. Individual schools and conferences didn't have TV contracts, so there was no financial advantage to being in the SEC.
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