re: Does anybody else not hate Tulane?

I will always hate tooLame.

Growing up in the 60s and 70's in NO, LSU had quite a winning streak against the weenies. I felt kinda sorry for the green scum until they finally beat us in football in 1973. For the next year their fans were relentless, you would have thought that they had won a National Championship.

But the biggest reason to hate tooLame is because of the way that they handled the sale of tickets to the Super Regional in 2001. Besides their minimal required allotment to the visiting LSU fans, they had the generous gesture to allow LSU to sell tickets to the "berm" at Zephyr field. All other reserved tickets to the three game series were sold at the tooLame ticket office. After selling to their season ticket holders, they sold reserved tickets to the general public. All those purchases REQUIRED a donation to the tooLame athletic fund. That is why I hate tooLame and always will.

mtheob17 said:

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Tulane and LSU had a different rivalry a long time ago.

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That's very true; I remember the 1973 game against Tulane; LSU was 9-1, ranked in the top 10, but had just lost against #1 Alabama around Thanksgiving. So, the Tulane game was played in New Orleans, at Tulane Stadium -- where the Sugar Bowl was held back then; It was the last game played there, before the games were moved the the newly built Super Dome.
The Tigers came in as the favorites, and with QB Mike Miley at the helm, the game was a lock. Tulane was underrated, even though they had already defeated BC, Pitt, GaTech, North Carolina, Navy and others. LSU came in flat, having had their #1 ranking hopes dashed by Alabama the game before. Result: A Tulane victory, 14-0. Over the 10-game stretch starting with that game, where LSU had some decent teams, Tulane managed to go 4-6 against the Tigers. I was in Tiger Band for one of the Tulane wins, a 48-7 beatdown in the Super Dome in 1981. The next year, Tulane won again, at Tiger Stadium. That was the last time Tulane won a game against LSU.

Because we've won 18 in a row since, it doesn't feel much like a rivalry. mtheob17 said:

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It's easier to root for a team that's not a threat to you.

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I say amen to that; for the same reason, not many fans see Ole Miss as a rivalry either. Tulane and Ole Miss were definitely hated as rivals, "back in the day." Now, most fans see Alabama as LSU's main rival. Back in the 70's, we hung game-day banners from the Stadium Dorms that read, "Tuck Fulane"; Because it wasn't a direct technical violation of policy, nobody took it down.

Tuck Fulane

As Tulane decided fifty years ago to take a different tack Re athletics they have lowered themselves a notch with each and every year with only a handful of times. It is well past time for them to drop to a class three school and just die.

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As Tulane decided fifty years ago to take a different tack Re athletics they have lowered themselves a notch with each and every year with only a handful of times. It is well past time for them to drop to a class three school and just die.

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Why is it that fans of a different school, who like to claim they don't really care about Tulane, that they don't feel a rivalry, continue to feel the need to tell us we need to, or should, drop out of D-1?!?

Tulane has some momentum right now. How far it carries us is a big, big question mark and I'm not going to go making grandiose claims. But the loss of any storied program from the deep south in a major southern city would be a great, great loss for college football and would diminish all of us.

Tulane still has a very loyal (if shrunken) fan base. We have a coach who is out-recruiting any and all reasonable expectations, a new stadium on the way, a school that is suddenly spending a LOT more money on football, a better (though not good enough) conference, and some believe a potential fanbase to reclaim. Maybe that will all prove positive, and maybe that will all fall flat. Why is it up to fans of one school to tell tell fans of another school they should simply, permanently, "go away"?

My wife went to LSU in a period (late 90s) where things weren't exactly leaning up for LSU. She was able to get student tickets to LSU's first SEC championship game (when Saban had y'all on the way back) easily with little or no line. The years before that she got actively made fun of by people in New Orleans for wearing LSU gear (the same people who are now so adamantly on the LSU bandwagon). That doesn't mean her fan-dom of LSU was any less real or any less important. And LSU is now on top as a perennial national championship contender.

Tulane was one of the most important football programs in the nation before WWII, and they have had periods of relevance since. Most recently, the early 80s (when they beat a lot of SEC teams, not just LSU) and 1998 when the, single handedly, opened the door for the conversation that led to non-cartel schools to at least get consideration for major bowls. Tulane may never reach any such heights again. They may, indeed, shrink away into the night. Or they might follow their current (slight) momentum and get back to true relevance. We'll see. In the meantime, why is it so important to you that we disappear? Why do you care so much?

I wouldn't wish disappearance upon my greatest enemy (LSU), because it would diminish us all. Meanwhile, you claim to not even care about Tulane, to not see them even worthy as a rival. So why then, pray tell, do you feel the need to insist we hang em up and go away?

I wouldn't wish that on the Tulane faithful any more than I'd wish the same on the LSU faithful. It would be a sad, sad day. And one that doesn't need to happen.

No, they're not really relevant. The football rivalry was real back in the 60s when Tulane was part of the SEC, but that died a long time ago. I actually hope they do well

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I've started halfway pulling for them except when they play LSU.

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In what? Football?

Does Tulane still have a football team?

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Whenever Tulane has had any kind of success in the past, and especially when that success has included defeating LSU, they become the most insufferable group of people you can imagine.

Ole Miss fans x Bama Fans x Oklahoma fans = Tulane fans after they've beaten LSU.

Best to hope God calls you home before that happens again.

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They are Formosan termites when they win. They come out of the woodwork and keep swarming.

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LSULANE

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I will get tickets for 2015, our game in their new stadium

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Hate to break it to you but the 2015 LSU - Tulane game will be in the dome.

They aren't relevant and suck in football. The games are boring as hell. There's nothing to hate, except shitty boring football.

It would be different if they had a pulse.

My dauther went to TulaMe. That is how I wrote the checks twice they were returned by the school