The main investment they needed for football is done. They need that new arena to compete for basketball but they won't get it because they just re-did Devlin and build a football stadium.

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the quality of the AAC doesn't matter all that much if we're talking about a potentially relevant program. if they are a real team they'll compete well, if they are a mediocre or bad team they'll fail.

They're already bad and now they're moving to much much better competition.

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seems to me there's a ridiculous amount of basketball talent in Louisiana were it to stay in state.

If everybody stayed in state in both sports they'd get what LSU left behind and what LSU leaves behind in football is higher quality and quantity.

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Posted by molsusports

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Posted on 8/8/14 at 11:21 pm to saintsfan22

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The main investment they needed for football is done

I think we see the issue completely differently then. They don't just need an on campus stadium with 20k seating, they need a massively upgraded stadium that seats at least four times that with support infrastructure ranging from scoreboards to wi-fi to luxury boxes to concessions. They also need massively upgraded training facilities to even think about making their football program capable of competing.

There already is a niche for Tulane baseball to be highly successful and IMO there could be a niche for Tulane basketball to be successful. There's just no mechanism by which Tulane can become relevant and stay relevant in football in today's world of college football.

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