re: Tulane Board reaction to end of seris

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It is a rivalry dating back 116 years, and is bigger than the circumstances at any particular point in time. Tradition is supposed to matter in Louisiana.

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Well Tulane messed this up by not devoting resources to the FB program. It's not LSU's fault that Tulane's FB program became such a joke that it didn't matter anymore. Don't blame LSU for TU's sucking in FB.

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Tulane's past and future schedules are factual proof that we have no difficulty getting attractive home-home arrangements. Ole Miss, Miss St, Georgia Tech, Alabama (return game to Dome delayed to 2012), Texas, etc. all have no problem playing home-home series.

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Home and Home. OK, but they just see you as a rent a win and I'm willing to bet those 1-1 become 2-1 and 3-1 since Tulane FB is so lame. How can even afford the payouts?

Don't blame LSU for TU having a crappy FB program. I'd like LSU to play TU every year, but TU did not hold up their end of the bargain. If you want to play LSU so bad do a 3-1 or come to BR every other year.

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" "We really don't care about keeping any money in New Orleans or helping out their hotels and restaurants, that is their problem"

last tulane game in the dome, i drove down that morning, watched the game, drove back home

id say Tulane doesnt care about those things since they only draw 5,000 for a home game vs a rankeed team

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The last Tulane game in the dome, I stayed in a friend's dorm - which was actually really nice.

LSU doesn't really care about Tulane athletically, much like ULL. Academically, perhaps there is some penis envy there, but it's unwarranted. They aren't really meant to be competing institutions.

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They may pay a heftier guarantee for some teams, Texas for example. At the other extreme, Oklahoma offered to come to the Dome in 2001 with no return game to Norman, for the NCAA minimum $125,000. It was on the front page of the T-P sports section.

We turned them down out of a sense of responsiblity to LSU to show up in B.R. that year to open the season. That came straight from our AD. He was trying to avoid damaging a relationship he developed over time with Skip Bertman by pulling out with less than a year to go and leaving LSU in a bind. I imagine he must now wonder why he bothered.

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Well, it didn't take Dickson long to put Georgia in a bind a year later when, with less than 12 months until their scheduled game, Tulane backed out of the 2 for 1 contract and replaced them with a home and home with Texas. Dickson and Tulane are not the innocent saints you try to paint them.

They are pathetic. I was once banned from YOGWF for simply asking if in retrospect, Tulane fans felt it was a mistake to have withdrawn from the SEC.

Bottom line is if Tulane would or could attract the second tier players in the State of Louisiana alone, they would be pretty damn good. I do not know if the recruits are not interested but in the last ten years they have sent QBS and RBS to the league. It's not LSU's fault that the program at Tulane continues to fail. I for one would like to see all schools in the state do well....It's good for Louisiana

Bob Toledo
"We're the last team in Conference USA to play a BCS team. So, we're playing them in the eighth game of the season and now we're beat up as it is.

"We might just take the equipment down and circle it up and get out of town real quick, you know? It's hard playing a team like that and they're mad right now. They're really mad. And I don't like them being mad. They're tough enough."


good stuff i come across

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Here's two reasons why Tulane is now nothing in the world of football:

1) Choosing to leave the SEC in the 60s.

2) Moving from Tulane Stadium to the Superdome.

Couple those boneheaded decisions with an underfunded athletic budget and what do you get? A program mired in mediocrity that will never get out of the muck.

It's a damn shame that some Tulane fans have such a vendetta against the LSU faithful. I don't know about the rest of you, but I would love to see Tulane play good football. I try and cheer for all of the in-state teams when they're not playing LSU. I never get why that cheering isn't reciprocal. Good play for Louisiana teams reflects well on Louisiana; it's that simple.

Also, it's quite ridiculous for these Tulane fans to contend that "LSU hates New Orleans," when anyone with sense can recognize that among New Orleans residents LSU fans out number Tulane fans immensely (5 to 1? 10 to 1? 100 to 1?). Moreover, LSU's four appearances in Bowl Games in New Orleans this decade have done more good for the economy of New Orleans then all the Tulane games combined over the last ten years (if not more).

Tulane could be competitive in Conference USA; however, I doubt we'll see that day any time in the near future. At the core of the problem is that a great deal of students come there from out of state and immediately leave the state upon graduation. When you have such a transient alumni base, you're going to have trouble maintaining the support necessary to fund and grow a football program. Really, they should move all their games to Tad Gormley and finally give up on the failed Superdome experiment. Secondly, if they're that concerned with football, they need to try and admit more Louisiana residents to grow the alumni base in the state. Until Tulane does these things, their fans will remain wallowing in their own self pity, hanging their hat on an undefeated season over a decade ago and a second quarter lead over LSU.

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DING DING DING DING WINNER!!!

I can remember going to Tulane - LSU games when the series actually meant something. Then again, that was back in the days when listening to music meant vinyl and 8 track.

Tulane's situation is strangely similiar to that of UNLV's out here. Both have transient student bodies, both play their games in stadiums miles away from their campus. Both schools have largely apathetic support from the local community and home games usually have poor attendance unless the visiting team brings loads of fans. Yet, both do have a huge advantage in that their home city is a world class travel destination that opposing team's fans would readily travel to. I think this is where Tulane's missing the boat a bit. If LSU isn't on the schedule anymore, use that oppotunity to schedule a home and home with a BCS team that would bring loads of fans into town. Since a large % of your student body eminates from the northeast, concentrate on schools such as Syracuse, Rutgers, Virginia and the like. Unlike UNLV, Tulane has a major facility in the Superdome.

Tulane's problem isn't LSU. Tulane's problem is apathy among its fan base and its athletic department.

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Bottom line is if Tulane would or could attract the second tier players in the State of Louisiana alone, they would be pretty damn good

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That's my biggest complaint as a Tulane fan, the administration won't let them sign the kids who are NCAA eligible but won't meet the "Tulane" requirement. They cut the exceptions that they used to allow to almost none. You won't compete if you don't get better athletes and unfortunately alot of them are not top students but could still make it if given a chance. Scott Cowen doesn't give a shite about athletics, I believe he is letting the program die so he can proceed with his plan of dismantling athletics. Sure the overall mission of any university should be quality education, but if you are going to have athletics commit to it. It should be rare that someone flunks out today with all of the academic support programs schools provide athletes.

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Southeastern is a good school. There's nothing wrong with Southeastern

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A friend of mine's son graduated from Fountainbleau High 2 years ago. He was "slow" and classified "special ed" for testing purposes etc....nothing really wrong with him, just not a great sudent, and always really struggled in school.

In his second year at southeastern and he's on the deans list. Still gets lost trying to find his classes...