07-21-2005, 12:03 PM
Copied from YOGWF:
"Future schedules, starting in '06, will have LSU and (hopefully) Ole Miss on them in a 10-game home-and-home arrangement. Now with the (supposed) superiority of the SEC staring us right in the face, you would think that in most of those years you could pencil in 0-2 for those two contests in August. Onus is now on Scelfo, or any sucessor(s), to show that TU can compete with these SEC teams. Before MSU came on the schedule we hadn't won over an SEC team since the late '80s, discounting the forfeit by Alabama in the early '90s. Question is: Can Scelfo go to the theorhetical "next level" and produce some wins over these two?"
I know the guy who posted this is a long suffering Tulane fan and he means well. But his post comes from the negative perspective. I know many of you in the sales field have heard this kind of approach as "stinking thinking." We, as Tulane fans should not be afraid to say something like, "Scelfo has obviously been putting together a solid football program and appears to be entering the next level. The schedules of the near future offer too SEC opponents with a long history between them and Tulane. They also offer Tulane the opportunity to show how far the Green Wave has come under Scelfo's excellent leadership."
"Future schedules, starting in '06, will have LSU and (hopefully) Ole Miss on them in a 10-game home-and-home arrangement. Now with the (supposed) superiority of the SEC staring us right in the face, you would think that in most of those years you could pencil in 0-2 for those two contests in August. Onus is now on Scelfo, or any sucessor(s), to show that TU can compete with these SEC teams. Before MSU came on the schedule we hadn't won over an SEC team since the late '80s, discounting the forfeit by Alabama in the early '90s. Question is: Can Scelfo go to the theorhetical "next level" and produce some wins over these two?"
I know the guy who posted this is a long suffering Tulane fan and he means well. But his post comes from the negative perspective. I know many of you in the sales field have heard this kind of approach as "stinking thinking." We, as Tulane fans should not be afraid to say something like, "Scelfo has obviously been putting together a solid football program and appears to be entering the next level. The schedules of the near future offer too SEC opponents with a long history between them and Tulane. They also offer Tulane the opportunity to show how far the Green Wave has come under Scelfo's excellent leadership."