re: Tulane Football.but it's tough to play when there's no atmosphere.

I read Dave Dixon's book about a year ago, you owe it to yourself to read it. It's great insight into this whole deal. He pitched the Superdome to Tulane as a great recruiting tool. He said, to the effect, what 17 year-old kid would NOT be wowed by the Superdome and the opportunity to play college ball in a state-of-the-art NFL facility?

And, following the opening of the Louisiana Superdome, Tulane DID have some success in both attendance and on the field in the late 1970s with a team lead by QB Roch Hontas. They beat LSU a couple times in the early 80s, then slid under a few bad coaches, Vegas Vince Gibson, Mack Brown, Wally English, et.al.