(12-07-2014 12:10 AM)Savacool Wrote:  Tulane needs to fire or retire its AD Rick Dickson,football coach CJ and men's basketball coach Conroy immediately.

Dickson - won't happen.
Johnson - won't happen for 12 months, at the earliest.
Conroy - depends how season goes from here. At the moment, looks like it won't happen until March 2016, at the earliest.

(12-06-2014 11:32 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Temple was definitely the better team tonight… Congratulations on the well-earned victory.

For Tulane, this is the end of a disastrous 3-9 season. There is a virtually unanimous expectation/demand among Tulane fans for the Offensive Coordinator to be replaced. Some low-level grumbling about the Head Coach, too, but the OC is bearing the brunt of this.

I would not be too quick to pull the plug on coaches. I know when UC played Tulane, you had many talented underclassman. Talented enough to hang and defeat Houston. I felt your team was undersized and slow on the defensive side of the ball. I know the fans are not satisfied with 3-9, but the future appears much brighter.

No, we should not fire the Head Coach. But there are some major issues.
Having abysmal special teams is ridiculous at Tulane - being competitive there isn't that hard.
Running a slow pro=style O is also silly; we just aren't going to get the linemen to do that.
I will say that our Defense is pretty good - it's fast and athletic but just got subsumed by ineptitude on O.
Even last night, Temple scored the winning TD on a 25 yard drive: bad special teams and bad offense set that up. (as well as good Temple ST).
We played NINE bowl teams this year and went 1-8 against them. We played GTech - bad special teams turned a close game into an easy Tech win. We played Duke - we were in striking distance until the late 3rd quarter punt blocks, and pick 6s. Against Cincy, we try to field a punt on our own 2 and fumbled it. PIck 6 on the first offensive play against Memphis. (and our D hung in really well in that game, until they just got worn out being on the field all game).
Those things need to be addressed.

(12-07-2014 10:43 AM)DrBox Wrote:  No, we should not fire the Head Coach. But there are some major issues.
Having abysmal special teams is ridiculous at Tulane - being competitive there isn't that hard.
Running a slow pro=style O is also silly; we just aren't going to get the linemen to do that.
I will say that our Defense is pretty good - it's fast and athletic but just got subsumed by ineptitude on O.
Even last night, Temple scored the winning TD on a 25 yard drive: bad special teams and bad offense set that up. (as well as good Temple ST).
We played NINE bowl teams this year and went 1-8 against them. We played GTech - bad special teams turned a close game into an easy Tech win. We played Duke - we were in striking distance until the late 3rd quarter punt blocks, and pick 6s. Against Cincy, we try to field a punt on our own 2 and fumbled it. PIck 6 on the first offensive play against Memphis. (and our D hung in really well in that game, until they just got worn out being on the field all game).
Those things need to be addressed.

You know your team much better than I do. I would agree that specialties are part of your problem. You may have even missed a close field goal in our game. The reason that I said undersized on defense is the amount of rushing yards we had. We won the battle of the trenches. I seem to remember the Marley kid as just a hiar above 200 lbs. At any rate good luck in the off season.

Temple fans I am sorry for being late but just wanted to say good victory. Will not say good game cause it was not overly exciting. I hope the Owl fans that showed up had a great time and enjoyed our city/stadium.