The new Tulane president is likely to be Michael Fitts, UPenn's current Law School Dean.

Undergrad: Harvard
JD: Yale
Current: Dean of UPenn Law School

CV: https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/mfitts/cv.pdf

Ties to med school (father head surgeon), law school, fundraiser, faculty recruiter.

No mention of stance on intercollegiate athletics.

http://theadvocate.com/home/8279872-125/...chool-dean

(02-04-2014 11:03 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  The new Tulane president is likely to be Michael Fitts, UPenn's current Law School Dean.

Undergrad: Harvard
JD: Yale
Current: Dean of UPenn Law School

CV: https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/mfitts/cv.pdf

Ties to med school (father head surgeon), law school, fundraiser, faculty recruiter.

No mention of stance on intercollegiate athletics.

http://theadvocate.com/home/8279872-125/...chool-dean

that was going to be my question relative to this board.....

edit: Is this a concern?

(02-04-2014 11:32 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-04-2014 11:03 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  No mention of stance on intercollegiate athletics.

that was going to be my question relative to this board.....

edit: Is this a concern?

It is for me.

(02-04-2014 11:32 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-04-2014 11:03 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  The new Tulane president is likely to be Michael Fitts, UPenn's current Law School Dean.

Undergrad: Harvard
JD: Yale
Current: Dean of UPenn Law School

CV: https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/mfitts/cv.pdf

Ties to med school (father head surgeon), law school, fundraiser, faculty recruiter.

No mention of stance on intercollegiate athletics.

http://theadvocate.com/home/8279872-125/...chool-dean

that was going to be my question relative to this board.....

edit: Is this a concern?

With Tulane, there's no telling. Football will always be a relatively small issue to them compared to everything else. I'd say that athletics at Tulane are as strong as they've been in 10-15 years, but what does their momentum consist of? Kicking USM out of their conference and building a high school-sized stadium? That's mighty thin gruel for an organization that tries to be world-class. New dude could come in and deemphasize athletics, or at least drop hints about doing so, and no one would be all that surprised.

More likely, Tulane will just stay the course. In 15 years they'll probably be stabbing ECU in the back and building a 1,250-seat basketball gym.

Tulane athletics as strong as the last 10-15 years? OKAY. An annual wbb tourney team, #1 in the country baseball team then and not now. Plus football is just now climbing back into relevancy on the G5 scale.


But why am I bothering? You're a proven Wave hater.

(02-04-2014 01:14 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  In 15 years they'll probably be stabbing ECU in the back and building a 1,250-seat basketball gym.

That made me snort ice cold malta out of my nose.

(02-04-2014 02:35 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Tulane athletics as strong as the last 10-15 years? OKAY. An annual wbb tourney team, #1 in the country baseball team then and not now. Plus football is just now climbing back into relevancy on the G5 scale.


But why am I bothering? You're a proven Wave hater.

If you go beyond 15 years then you're talking about the Tommy Bowden / CUSA 1.0 / Perry Clark era. I do not think Tulane is better off now than then. Does anyone? I think an honest Tulane fan would admit that you have never quite recovered from your decision to pass on Rich Rodriguez.

As for hating Tulane, I'll "plead the fifth" on that. My dad's an alum. My wife's a current student / former research staff. I've probably been to more Tulane games than most of your students, and I mean that literally, and it would probably hold true even if you excluded games versus USM. But at some point, Tulane ceased being a positive part of the New Orleans community. Ditching your engineering programs was bad for NOLA. So was ditching Newcomb College. So was ditching USM. I even see your people trying to claim the "U of Louisiana" moniker (as if you had anything to fear from ULL... your faculty beer budget is probably bigger than their endowment).

I don't think Yulman is good for the community. I went to Tulane games at Gormley and at the Dome. I'm not going Uptown and neither is 90% of real New Orleans.

Overall, I think I give Tulane a fair shake, but they've done little to earn my sympathy.

(02-04-2014 04:19 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(02-04-2014 02:35 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Tulane athletics as strong as the last 10-15 years? OKAY. An annual wbb tourney team, #1 in the country baseball team then and not now. Plus football is just now climbing back into relevancy on the G5 scale.


But why am I bothering? You're a proven Wave hater.

If you go beyond 15 years then you're talking about the Tommy Bowden / CUSA 1.0 / Perry Clark era. I do not think Tulane is better off now than then. Does anyone? I think an honest Tulane fan would admit that you have never quite recovered from your decision to pass on Rich Rodriguez.

As for hating Tulane, I'll "plead the fifth" on that. My dad's an alum. My wife's a current student / former research staff. I've probably been to more Tulane games than most of your students, and I mean that literally, and it would probably hold true even if you excluded games versus USM. But at some point, Tulane ceased being a positive part of the New Orleans community. Ditching your engineering programs was bad for NOLA. So was ditching Newcomb College. So was ditching USM. I even see your people trying to claim the "U of Louisiana" moniker (as if you had anything to fear from ULL... your faculty beer budget is probably bigger than their endowment).

I don't think Yulman is good for the community. I went to Tulane games at Gormley and at the Dome. I'm not going Uptown and neither is 90% of real New Orleans.

Overall, I think I give Tulane a fair shake, but they've done little to earn my sympathy.

They've at least earned that....

(02-04-2014 04:19 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  As for hating Tulane, I'll "plead the fifth" on that.

People can be convicted even after pleading the fifth. And you have shown -- over and over and over again -- that you have a special animosity for Tulane. I don't know you or what path you've taken in life. Maybe Tulane or people from Tulane did some harm to you, and you might have good reason to hate it. But the hate is there and most of the time (at least on this site) you don't even try to hide it.

Quote:I don't think Yulman is good for the community.

I'm afraid to ask what you thought about Tulane Stadium, which held 80,000 and hosted 3 Super Bowls.

AndreWhere- what exactly did Tulane do to screw us over? Pardon my ignorance.


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Earn your sympathy? What the heck is this guy talking about?

http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/201...cart_river discusses sports