re: Rick Jones stepping down at Tulane

quote:

---

@ScottDKushner: "The bottom line is it was from stress...It manifested itself in waking up at 4 a.m. with panic attacks because I was worried. "I was worried about where our program was going. It was anxiety and it was panic." - Rick Jones

---

You see what you did, Tulane players? Your shittiness gives people panic attacks. SMH

Dunn is a former bama player & when they finally get SEC level facilities, the administration mite get tired of being average & bring in a new coach to go with the new stadium.

(no message)

"The biggest ego...". Which is why he wore that sock in his uniform crotch that season. Not sure if I've ever seen a coach so mad or embarrassed as Jones was every time he left the dugout & the LSU fans unloaded on him for it.

UVA that is good stuff but the UC was a cheap alternative for baseball players and it was heavily used...

quote:

---

I don't know if he forgot how to recruit, or what. I know it's difficult with the academic standards at Tulane and the limited scholarships, but its shocking how bad they've become.

---

Getting into Tulane as a baseball player is incredibly easy.

As far as the limited scholarships, Jones had a huge advantage, i.e., the Tulane legislative scholarships. He's used them to recruit for years. Last year he had 7-8 players on legislative scholarships. Think about what an advantage that is.

in short, he had no excuses.

Not, if you're a baseball player. And trust me you don't know what the f*** you're talking about.

They have to figure something out. Rice is in a city with 5x the population and probably 10x the number of upper middle class families that can afford tuition. Miami is about 5x the size and has a lot of minority scholarship programs that can help. Vandy recruits all over the east. I suspect all of them have some schollie program that they can tilt to baseball, as the need arises. TU needs one of those, if they don't already have one (the legies are under high scrutiny now).
Jones made a lot of mistakes. His staff was too insular - he should have moved out guys like Sutter and have them get experience elsewhere and if he wanted ex players, make sure they had worked at other places. He way overreacted to losing his 2008 class to the draft (kind of like certain football coaches who lost their top recruits at the wire, so the next year they decided to get commits from recruits who weren't getting recruiting pressure). We don't nationally recruit like we used to - don't know if it's just his lack of energy or we cut his budget. And the team just wasn't well coached at the end: a lot of clowning on defense and on the basepaths.

Revenue as defined as Revenue > Expenses? At the moment? None. Football might be soon; baseball was for a long time.

2 players on this years team on legislative scholarship, I just linked a list of the recipients.
They did have 6 or 7 a year ago, but Most guys who receive it are very smart guys and not highly recruited. Brandon Boudreaux and Brennan Middleton from a year ago are exceptions to the not highly recruited part of that. Boudreaux had a 3.89 GPA at Tulane, no idea what his ACT was but I bet close to that 28.

Give us some names of the guys you knew on legislative scholarship.

These are the guidelines for everyone [quote]LINK ]

If Tulane can give it to any baseball player why are they only using 2 this year and for 2 kids that don't play? Kind of pokes a hole in your argument.