I hope those chances are slim. They are (?) building an on-campus stadium but I know it's tough on them (and Rice and UAB) witht he lack of fan support.

Once again, I am just asking... and "yes", ECU basketball can be picked on for now. Lebo will get us where we can be more competitive in the years to come.

First I've heard of an on-campus stadium. I thought they had neither the money nor the space.

I found this online and I remember a few TU fans talking about it a while back:

http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/201...s_foo.html

It would be awesome to play a game at TU in a new Tulane Stadium, located in or near the Garden District.

Well, I do not think you would discuss an on-campus stadium and have the AD priortize raising money for the project along with recently adding millions to your FB budget if you were going to dissolve the program. Note the school just revived its marching band investing serious dollars for the music credits, a director and uniforms. Note: Tulane's administration has already had its moment of hell from its community when the President questioned the financing of a Division 1 FB team in 2003.

Even Katrina could not eliminate TU Football. The question is not about TU FB survival, the question is how much will the adminstration truly commit to have the program WIN! That has been the huge debate over the last year at Tulane as pressure as been mounting for the administrators to demonstrate not a commitment to play, but a commitment to win and win consistently. The recent commitment (and success) from SMU was very helpful towards adding the pressure on the TU decision makers.

Within the next 5 years, I feel confident that UAB and Tulane will both be playing on campus.

Agree about the on-campus stadiums - especially Tulane. There's a lot of $$$ in both alumni groups that can make things happen & it should.

The OP's question is a serious one, and at various times since Katrina I have wondered myself if Tulane Div.-I athletics could truly survive on a long-term basis.

But right now, I think the worst has passed, and it is pretty much guaranteed that Tulane will be an all-sports member of C-USA five years from now, and for many years after that.

We will be here long after ECU has dropped athletics. Does that answer your flame bait question?

(11-29-2010 11:38 PM)Blazer14172 Wrote:  Within the next 5 years, I feel confident that UAB and Tulane will both be playing on campus.

In the the Southern Conference

(11-29-2010 09:09 PM)Ned Low Wrote:  I hope those chances are slim. They are (?) building an on-campus stadium but I know it's tough on them (and Rice and UAB) witht he lack of fan support.

Once again, I am just asking... and "yes", ECU basketball can be picked on for now. Lebo will get us where we can be more competitive in the years to come.

Your ignorant to our finances. You obviously are looking at some win /loss records and have no clue about our billion dollar endowment. Football has been played at tulane before your school was a junior college. Not a flame just truth. Although we have had our challenges lately. Take a guess why? We have a number seven ranking in the last 12 yrs. What is your highest ranking? In short we will be playing football for another 100 yrs. It may not be with your team and this conference. But we will be playing. And yes the conference we will be in will be a conference that puts importance on a full academic athletic experience. That is a conference that doesn't have 3rd and 4th tier schools. TCU is a good example of where we will be in not to long from here.

(11-30-2010 10:57 AM)pablowow Wrote:  And yes the conference we will be in will be a conference that puts importance on a full academic athletic experience. That is a conference that doesn't have 3rd and 4th tier schools. TCU is a good example of where we will be in not to long from here.

LOL.

(11-30-2010 10:57 AM)pablowow Wrote:  And yes the conference we will be in will be a conference that puts importance on a full academic athletic experience. That is a conference that doesn't have 3rd and 4th tier schools. TCU is a good example of where we will be in not to long from here.

There is so much wrong with this statement, but let's start with the obvious.

Schools that are in the Big East:

West Virginia
Louisville
South Florida

And if you were referring to the Mtn West:

Colorado State
New Mexico
Wyoming
UNLV

Tulane's immediate plan is to field a successful football program. Steps have been taken by the administration to acheive that goal. How deep that commitment reaches is still a question. There is an ongoing effort to continue to raise funds to build an on-campus facility. They are within $25 million of making an official announcement. They want money in-hand before the announcement is made. They fully intend to be a loyal member of CUSA now and in the near future. No one knows what the future holds as far as conference realeignment is concerned.

That is all fine. I can assure you that academics are important with conference expansion. They are not the complete factor. But as you can see with the big east TCU and UCF are more attractive than Memphis and ECU and it is not because of their total success. Market is a factor as well as support. Which ECU and MEMPHIS have. But the full package for an established conference is the desire. Tulane has underachiever lately on the field. We are very attractive for all of the other factors.SMU will be in the same conference as Tulane for what we share in common. Those are my opinions which are no more stupid than the TITLE of this stupid thread! And yes it was a flame thread. The big east and the MWC are not the models we will end up in. In my opinion. ACC has more in common with our school.

(11-30-2010 10:57 AM)pablowow Wrote:  

(11-29-2010 09:09 PM)Ned Low Wrote:  I hope those chances are slim. They are (?) building an on-campus stadium but I know it's tough on them (and Rice and UAB) witht he lack of fan support.

Once again, I am just asking... and "yes", ECU basketball can be picked on for now. Lebo will get us where we can be more competitive in the years to come.

Your ignorant to our finances. You obviously are looking at some win /loss records and have no clue about our billion dollar endowment. Football has been played at tulane before your school was a junior college. Not a flame just truth. Although we have had our challenges lately. Take a guess why? We have a number seven ranking in the last 12 yrs. What is your highest ranking? In short we will be playing football for another 100 yrs. It may not be with your team and this conference. But we will be playing. And yes the conference we will be in will be a conference that puts importance on a full academic athletic experience. That is a conference that doesn't have 3rd and 4th tier schools. TCU is a good example of where we will be in not to long from here.

Your billion dollar endowment is meaningless in this context. There is no way Tulane takes even a dollar of principal from that to put towards any athletic venture. And even the likelihood of redirecting any of the interest earnings seems very, very unlikely given the reductions that have gone on at Tulane post-Katrina (e.g. reducing enrollment).

Actually, enrollment has bounced back and exceeds pre-Katrina numbers. The current freshmen class is the largest in school history, and next year promises to be similar. Some of the endowment funds has already been shifted to the athletic department for the upcoming fiscal year. But as I said before, we still don't know how deep this new commitment to athletics by the administration will go.

Wow, someone is sensitive! Your own administration that brought it up a few years ago. Sheesh!

(11-30-2010 10:44 AM)HellBlazer Wrote:  

(11-29-2010 11:38 PM)Blazer14172 Wrote:  Within the next 5 years, I feel confident that UAB and Tulane will both be playing on campus.

In the the Southern Conference

Tulane maybe. UAB isn't a private school and that's all the SoCon wants these days.

(11-30-2010 03:49 PM)Black Bart Wrote:  Wow, someone is sensitive! Your own administration that brought it up a few years ago. Sheesh!

What post are you replying to?

Not yours. get.the.fork and pablowow.