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re: To all the USL fans in Mobile for the bowl game
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:07 am to I Bleed Garnet
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:07 am to I Bleed Garnet
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hey travel better to a NOLA venue than Tulane fans do
Is that shocking?
No, but it should be.
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Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:12 am to mdomingue
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No, but it should be.
Not really
If you compare both schools.
And look at the kinda school Tulane is compared to ULaLa
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:20 am to I Bleed Garnet
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Not really
If you compare both schools.
And look at the kinda school Tulane is compared to ULaLa
I can see the validity to what I think your point is. Feel free to expound in the event I am not getting your drift here (I'm old and ma be slower of mind than I once thought I was
) My thinking is there was an old tradition in NOLA of fan support for Tulane outside of the alumni and students. That died out over the years, that is the sad part.
It is sad when a good Tulane team is playing another louisiana school not named LSU in NOLA and is outnumbered by the opposing teams fans.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:27 am to mdomingue
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It is sad when a good Tulane team is playing another louisiana school not named LSU in NOLA and is outnumbered by the opposing teams fans.
I don't know why we're dragged into this. But that sure as hell didn't happen the last time we played them in NOLA; or at the last bowl game we played them. And it won't happen between the 2 comparative bowl games this year.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:30 am to mdomingue
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Feel free to expound in the event
Well from my experience, as someone neutral and not from LA looking at Tulane.
It is an academic school with the majority of the student body not being from LA.
Most of these kids didn't come to Tulane because of sports, and most don't give a shite about college sports.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:34 am to I Bleed Garnet
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It is an academic school with the majority of the student body not being from LA.
Most of these kids didn't come to Tulane because of sports, and most don't give a shite about college sports.
That's true. I was thinking about other local support. Also, another poster says I'm off on that fan attendance totals, I've been told otherwise in reference to recent ULL/Tulane games but I was not there to say that it was actually true. So maybe I'm just spreading unfounded rumors.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:41 am to Overbrook
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I don't know why we're dragged into this. But that sure as hell didn't happen the last time we played them in NOLA; or at the last bowl game we played them. And it won't happen between the 2 comparative bowl games this year.
Not the info I was given but I honestly am only repeating things I've been told so perhaps you are correct.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:46 am to mdomingue
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Also, another poster says I'm off on that fan attendance totals, I've been told otherwise in reference to recent ULL/Tulane games but I was not there to say that it was actually true. So maybe I'm just spreading unfounded rumors.
They had more fans that we did in the 2013 NOLA Bowl. That is true. They brought good crowds when we played them in the Dome in the 80s and 90s - never more than we did or even close, but good crowds.
But their support for their team in NOLA is really more of a plus to them than a knock on us.
As for Tulane and attendance, academic school is part of it, but not the main reason; sure, most NOLA people can't go there (academics, $$). But let's face it, a healthy % of LSU fans couldn't get into LSU either.
It's a result of an administration that at best ignored the team (and sometimes actively worked against it) for 30 years letting it deteriorate. And now the administration is paying attention, but it's a different era so we'll see.
This post was edited on 1/6/20 at 10:49 am
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:50 am to Overbrook
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It's a result of an administration that at best ignored the team (and sometimes actively worked against it) for 30 years letting it deteriorate.
I noticed that, too. It was sad to watch.
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And now the administration is paying attention, but it's a different era so we'll see.
I'm really glad to see that. I'd like a the schools in Louisiana tot excel, just not quite as much as LSU. And that's coming from a graduate of USL
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:51 am to mdomingue
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ust not quite as much as LSU. And that's coming from a graduate of USL
So you like LSU more than the school you went to?
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:00 am to Overbrook
The final nail in Tulane’s coffin was Katrina, or the administration’s decisions following Katrina, imo. Prior to 2005, Tulane had robust Engineering and hard sciences programs. Many locals attended Tulane for these majors. After Katrina, they axed essentially everything but what fed the medical programs, and shifted their recruitment focus almost entirely towards northeastern kids who couldn’t hack the ivy league. This approach has worked wonders for the academic side of the university, allowing Tulane to massively increase tuition while becoming the most exclusive college in the country based on applications verses acceptance. However, severing those programs severed most of Tulane’s remaining ties to the New Orleans community, along with support for athletics. The alumni of those programs tended to be employed locally and continue to support athletics and the university after graduation. The overwhelming majority of graduates now go back to the northeast and never contribute again.
I cannot say it wasn’t a good or bad decision in the grand scheme of things, but it certainly hasn’t helped athletics.
I cannot say it wasn’t a good or bad decision in the grand scheme of things, but it certainly hasn’t helped athletics.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:07 am to I Bleed Garnet
Really. That says a lot about him....and anyone else, from any other school, that then pull more for a school that they never attended.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:46 am to LaCajunsFan
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Really. That says a lot about him....and anyone else, from any other school, that then pull more for a school that they never attended.
one of my biggest pet peaves
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:01 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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So you like LSU more than the school you went to?
I went to both. Graduated from USL but that was driven by economics at the time. I got aa degree that put in a good place at this point in my life but I fell in love with LSU, particularly football. My two youngest are students at LSU now. I also pull for UL Lafayette and liked my time there, but LSU is my first love.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:02 pm to LaCajunsFan
I attended LSU before I transfered to USL. But hey, way to draw conclusion without any pertinent information.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:03 pm to Overbrook
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It's a result of an administration that at best ignored the team (and sometimes actively worked against it) for 30 years letting it deteriorate. And now the administration is paying attention, but it's a different era so we'll see.
Sounds like a carbon copy of what the Cajuns athletic programs had to deal with before the current university President was hired in ‘06(??). And what happens in that scenario, is graduates who like sports and end up being successful and want to donate money...end up taking their money down the road to a university competent in getting out of the way of its athletic department.
Sucks having to recover from that.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:04 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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one of my biggest pet peaves
I did attend LSU before USL.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:15 pm to ragincajun03
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Sounds like a carbon copy of what the Cajuns athletic programs had to deal with before the current university President was hired in ‘06(??). And what happens in that scenario, is graduates who like sports and end up being successful and want to donate money...end up taking their money down the road to a university competent in getting out of the way of its athletic department.
Sucks having to recover from that.
A lot of people don't realize this about UL Lafayette. Dr Authement, for all his good attribute, did not feel that athletics should have access to the kind of money it takes to truly compete. There is a reason why LSU had TAF since 1987 but, if memory serves me correctly, UL Lafayette only got RCAF kicked off after Dr. Savoie took over in 2008.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:39 pm to mdomingue
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But hey, way to draw conclusion without any pertinent information.
It still isn't an out of place prediction to be fair.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:41 pm to ragincajun03
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is graduates who like sports and end up being successful and want to donate money...end up taking their money down the road to a university competent in getting out of the way of its athletic department.
graduates of ULL were donating money to other schools?
Yikes!
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