I want Tulane to bring back "The Posse!"

I think Tulane is just Fine.

Give's me a good reason to visit NOLA when UCF goes up.

(11-11-2013 07:43 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  I want Tulane to bring back "The Posse!"

If we had the basketball recruiters we had in 1990 and gave them the recruiting/academic flexibility that we gave Clark....
That staff recruited 2 top 10 players in the nation to Tulane and 4 or 5 others who were in the top 50. Now the posse teams didn't have those players, but they were about as good as the teams that did.

Perry Clark, right?

(11-11-2013 08:15 PM)DrBox Wrote:  

(11-11-2013 07:43 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  I want Tulane to bring back "The Posse!"

If we had the basketball recruiters we had in 1990 and gave them the recruiting/academic flexibility that we gave Clark....
That staff recruited 2 top 10 players in the nation to Tulane and 4 or 5 others who were in the top 50. Now the posse teams didn't have those players, but they were about as good as the teams that did.

i'm confused by the bold part. it reads like you're talking about 2 different staffs, but wasn't perry clark the coach in 1990?

(11-11-2013 08:15 PM)DrBox Wrote:  

(11-11-2013 07:43 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  I want Tulane to bring back "The Posse!"

If we had the basketball recruiters we had in 1990 and gave them the recruiting/academic flexibility that we gave Clark....
That staff recruited 2 top 10 players in the nation to Tulane and 4 or 5 others who were in the top 50. Now the posse teams didn't have those players, but they were about as good as the teams that did.

When we were mates in the Metro Conference in the early 90s, I remember Tulane having some very good teams at a time when USF was pretty good as well. Some great games those years. You guys were brutal.

(11-11-2013 08:42 PM)Meatwad Wrote:  

(11-11-2013 08:15 PM)DrBox Wrote:  If we had the basketball recruiters we had in 1990 and gave them the recruiting/academic flexibility that we gave Clark....
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i'm confused by the bold part. it reads like you're talking about 2 different staffs, but wasn't perry clark the coach in 1990?

He is comparing that time to the current staff. He is saying if the current staff had the recruiting chops of that team, and had the flexibility Clark had.

i hope we are always in a conference with tulane

Perry had some great teams in the early 90s. Unfortunately he had to deal with Penny Hardaway, Nick Van Exel, and Clarence Weatherspoon....

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(11-11-2013 11:23 PM)transitt Wrote:  Perry had some great teams in the early 90s. Unfortunately he had to deal with Penny Hardaway, Nick Van Exel, and Clarence Weatherspoon....

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We were just getting started when Van Exel and Spoon were just finishing up.
Hardaway nailed a 3 from the corner at the buzzer to beat us the year after Memphis left the Metro; but we beat Meamphis the next year in the Pyramid.
It was Cincy who would beat us at the wire game after game when we had our good teams. And Murray Bartow


As for Clark, the flexibility allowed him to bring in JCs who served as role players and designated shooters...great ancillary players. But his staff just recruited their tails off for top high school talent. We had more talent in the mid 1990s than the more successful early 1990s...but C-USA was tougher, even though the metro was a good league too.

I don't think Penny ever played in the Metro. I know we only played him once, and that was in the NCAA tournament.

(11-11-2013 11:47 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  I don't think Penny ever played in the Metro. I know we only played him once, and that was in the NCAA tournament.

I said the early 90s. Louisville never played a Memphis team with Penny. That was Lorenzen Wright, Ced Henderson, et all in 95.

Penny played at Memphis 91-93. Still one of the best to ever lace them up in college. Had his knees held up in the NBA, he's have been a legend there, too.

My screen name comes from that era. We could beat anyone in the mid 90s, bar none. Victories over Indiana, Temple (at their peak), Wake Forest, NC State (again at their peak), and every upper echelon CUSA team. I felt when we signed Honeycutt, Rayshard Allen, Chris Cameron, and Corey Childs we were headed to the final 4.

Our rapid rise to the top in the early to mid 90s from a start with no basketball team after the point shaving scandal is exhibit 1A that it doesn't take anything but the will to do it and the right coaching hire. Do those two things, and in a couple of years the situation is turned around.

I still loved it when the Posse came in. IIRC, , about 7 or 8 minutes into the game, they would come in like a line change in hockey they essentially had their names called just like the starters would. Just as your team was starting to get tired, 5 fresh bodies came off the bench, usually with one or two who averaged double figures.

(11-11-2013 11:47 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  I don't think Penny ever played in the Metro. I know we only played him once, and that was in the NCAA tournament.

We played them ooc 2 years when they were in the G Midwest. We split, with each winning on the others' court.

The mid 1990s teams could beat anyone, but we never had a point guard, which cost us games. ONe year we won in Marquette, Xavier, beat Louisville and Charlotte, lost to Cincy in OT in Cincy...but went to the NIT.

(11-12-2013 10:26 AM)tufinal4 Wrote:  My screen name comes from that era. We could beat anyone in the mid 90s, bar none. Victories over Indiana, Temple (at their peak), Wake Forest, NC State (again at their peak), and every upper echelon CUSA team. I felt when we signed Honeycutt, Rayshard Allen, Chris Cameron, and Corey Childs we were headed to the final 4.

Our rapid rise to the top in the early to mid 90s from a start with no basketball team after the point shaving scandal is exhibit 1A that it doesn't take anything but the will to do it and the right coaching hire. Do those two things, and in a couple of years the situation is turned around.

Tulane has as much upside in athletics as anyone in this conference. Twice in recent history the Green Wave has been a national player in basketball and should have been the first "BCS buster" in football. With the new football stadium, the football experience will be much improved.

My only issue with the Green Wave is I can't stand that Hullabaloo Hooray thing.

(11-11-2013 04:54 PM)jlbphila Wrote:  Tulane has a great academic brand, a new football stadium, an improving team and are located in a top notch travel destination. They have all the potential of a Georgia Tech, Northwestern, or Stanford in Football.

Anyone bashing them is clueless.

Thanks.