re: Tulane On-Campus Football Stadium

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and how the frick did Tulane go from almost dropping the football team to talks of building a stadium in 2 years

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Maybe because those talks were in 2003 and not two years ago.

Save the Wave were the signs in 03..........then the talks came up again in 08.

Interesting I dont recall the talks in '08 being very serious at all.
To answer your first question though: The administration recently came out and said they will now give full support to the football program. I guess this is their way of showing it.

I'm all for it.

There are enough rich people at that school that DONT care about athletics..get them to care and then maybe we can get the funds.

There are enough funds within the alumnis and the parents..just gotta extract them

Where would they put it?

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Where would they put it?

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Somewhere in this area:

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TigersOfGeauxld

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You probably already know this, but that soccer field at the bottom of the picture is where the Tulane Stadium football field used to be. The Reily Rec Center is over the former site of the north end zone.

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There's no chance they will be able to get a top 25 program to come to them every year.

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When you look at most small schools that play big time programs like LSU, TEXAS, and Florida's they don't play a home and home and they big school doesn't come to the small venue to play. The games are always at the big time programs facility. The small schools get a big pay day for going in and getting shellacked in front of 75,000 + fans, and the big schools "get to pad their schedule with a homecoming win in front of the alumni. 30,000 seats is plenty for a Tulane. If they can build a following and a successful program they can always expand later.

I would rather go to a game with 30,000 filled seats then a larger venue with 10,000+ empty seats.

They can make room for a 32,000 stadium, which would be fine. Sell that out regularily and you're paying for football.

I actually hope they do get a stadium built and hope LSU plays them and beats them more.

Tulane can get Minnesota, Indiana, Purdue, Northwestern and maybe schools like Michigan State to do a 2 for 1 deal. I think those schools would like to sell alumni packages and maybe see if it could help with recruiting since LA has so much talent.