Coach Pierce is bringing his entire coaching staff with him to Tulane.

If you google. Tulane. David Pierce You Tube. You will pick up the entire introduction of Coach Pierce to Tulane on You Tube.

(06-12-2014 10:00 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  

NIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCEEEE!!!!!!!!!!



AAC baseball is going to be great!

(06-10-2014 10:10 PM)DrBox Wrote:  

(06-09-2014 11:24 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  Nice!!!!!!!!

And, not to brag, but I CALLED IT!!!

As for leaving for Rice.. I doubt he'll leave for CUSA. The AAC will be an upper-tier baseball conference.. especially if/when ECU follows Tulane's and USF's great coaching hires..

You sure did. You called it early. On paper, he's close to a perfect coach for us.

I am so happy for you guys, Dr. I have a feeling the Tulane-Houston rivalry is going to be heating up on the diamond for years to come!

This will be a solid baseball conference. Tulane, HOuston, ECU and the 2 Floridas...those should be 4-5 regional teams once a couple get rebuilt, which shouldn't take long. Memphis is usually average and I don't know much about the 3 northern teams. If they're good, even better. Southern teams can play a strong enough SOS ooc that it won't matter if the north struggles.

(06-13-2014 12:00 AM)DrBox Wrote:  This will be a solid baseball conference. Tulane, HOuston, ECU and the 2 Floridas...those should be 4-5 regional teams once a couple get rebuilt, which shouldn't take long. Memphis is usually average and I don't know much about the 3 northern teams. If they're good, even better. Southern teams can play a strong enough SOS ooc that it won't matter if the north struggles.

UConn is really improving. Made three regionals in the last five years and had a ton of recent draft picks (including first rounders). Temple is cancelling baseball. Cinci built a nice little stadium recently but they have been flat out awful. With the upgrade in conference maybe Cinci will get it together as that is a good baseball town.

Very happy with this hire and even happier his entire staff is coming with him. It shows that they are all on the same page and enjoy working with one another. Coach Allen turned down potentially being a HC at SHSU which also means we are paying good money for the entire staff. We will really tell the next time we have a men's basketball hire or if CJ leaves and we need to replace him. Tulane basically promised Aresco we would spend the money that the upper half of AAC schools were spending on coaches/staff, etc.

For a Tulane fan this is all good news because it shows that what the University has promised and their follow-through. It shows commitment and in college sports commitment these days is mostly about the willingness to invest money in coaches, support staff and facilities. Some people say "well the money for the stadium is donated so that is not investing" - well hell yes it is investing because the Yulman family was not known as a sports family and we asked them to donate a huge amount of money to athletics when that money (or some of it) could have gone to academics for a number of things. So it may not have been out of the Tulane budget but it is essentially taking money that has traditionally gone to another part of the University and giving it to athletics instead. That is huge. I would expect to see more of the same in the next project when the proposed Athletes Village Sports Complex begins to get going. We won't hear anything official on that until the stadium is off and running but they are privately working and already have donors lined up for it. I would think late Fall or early Winter is when we may get an official announcement on it but it is 110% happening and it will happen faster than people think from what I understand.

We might take some bumps this year in football (freshman QB) and men's basketball (zero big men) but overall we remain on the upswing after so much time on the downward track.

It is an exciting time.