TT might be part of a PAC 12 four team expansion that would include UT, OU and OSU--otherwise, what P4 would want them? SEC will go after OU and UT first, but if they can't reel them in, then their next best options would be UH, Cincy or WVU. ACC will need to fill two slots, UConn would be perfect ...

Not really. You're trying to discredit a 10 win team and trying to explain that 30 passes at a 40% completion rate isn't good. Both of those statements lack common sense, detract from the discourse and only make sense in an effort to justify your biases. Well, if you say you're not, then I guess yo...

Plenty of others here saw spring practice or other evidence that Bradwell/Cuillette couldn't throw the ball effectively. While that may be true, GSU's QBs couldn't throw the ball either and it still didn't stop GSU from racking up about 40 points per game. We're talking about 40% completion and 4 T...

The SEC won't add Houston even if it expanded to 16 - Houston isn't worth it and Texas A&M is close enough and has enough alumni in the area. If the SEC expanded, it would certainly expand with current P5s as it would not dilute its brand because it doesn't have to, especially in a few years whe...

Yeah that's quite the fall from 42 to currently >100.

Says a guy who's school got better because of being in the Big 12. Now, if you read the last sentence, you can't deny that Tulane MAKES THE CONFERENCE BETTER in academics. No one else out there does that, with maybe the exception of BYU. If we are using US News as a barometer of academics, virtuall...

I suppose we can agree to disagree. On a side note, there was an interview with Gary Patterson where he states that he believes that the Big 12 has whittled the expansion candidates down to 6. http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2016/08/03/gary-patterson-expanding-big-12-con...

I dont agree with you, Aber, because you're still looking at a mix of criteria. If we were to go 5-7 this season, and go to bowls the next two years with at least 8 wins, and basketball makes an NIT and an NCAA appearance in those same years, we will have then eliminated the one thing other schools...

greenphantom - that's true, but that Georgia team barely beat a bad Georgia Tech team, an average Penn State team that Temple crushed, and a so-so Auburn team. In fact, if you look at Georgia's 2015 schedule, you have to ask yourself, what was Georgia's best win? The answer is probably Penn State or...

Plenty of others here saw spring practice or other evidence that Bradwell/Cuillette couldn't throw the ball effectively. While that may be true, GSU's QBs couldn't throw the ball either and it still didn't stop GSU from racking up about 40 points per game. We're talking about 40% completion and 4 T...

If they took BYU and Cincy now, and added two in 3 years, who else out there has the potential to improve more than we do? If Houston doesn't get in now, they never will. If things go the way we hope they will around here, in three years we could be as good or better than Memphis in every sport exc...

I could live with BYU and Cincy for now. Still leaves future spots and time for us to get our house in order. Meets the Big 12's need for a travel partner for WVU, without extending too far. A couple more years to add 2 more, we'd be in real good shape. If there's blowback from B12 presidents vs Ho...

At this point, anything less than Big 12 expansion by four or more with us included is a disaster for us.

winwave wrote:It has a lot more w/the at risk players he took locally.

If that's the case, how do a lot of these other programs manage to keep the players they take eligible? We seem to have more attrition than programs that one would imagine would have a harder time keeping players eligible (i.e. LSU).

Noticed that Leonard Davis is no longer listed on the roster. What's up with that? Anyone know? the NOLA story or lack thereof http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/2016/08/leonard_davis_dismissed_from_t.html#incart_river_home We have to have an academic issue somewhere, and I'm not convinced that i...

Here are the facts. We have seen tons of players leave, some for clear playing time issues others for total ?'s. The recruiting stinks so far. So the question is why. Is it the losing? The system? The academics????? The facilities (unlikely as we are losing folks to crap programs)? I just want to w...

I didn't attend TU undergrad, but are you sure calculus is required to graduate? Just looking at the core curriculum guide, it seems like it depends on what school/major you are, and it also looks like Stats is something that can be taken to fulfill math requirement? It looks like sometimes stats c...

We can take any athlete. We have instituted at least four new majors such as health and wellness to help. That is all still in place. Do athletes still have to take the same math courses as traditional undergraduates? I spoke to someone familiar with that a little over a year ago, and they informed...

If that's the case, then Tulane has much bigger problems than the inevitable demise of the athletics program. How do you spend that many years and $100M+ to build an athletic program but won't make some meaningless rule change in order to compete? No one even knows for sure if this rule has been ch...

Honestly, there is nothing really special here, but at least it's something.

1. Coach
2. Offense
3. Quarterbacks
4. Wide Receivers
5. Pass Rush

http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/20 ... river_home

What has happened to Keeyon Smart? His twitter page makes reference to Kilgore JR. College (TX), but there is no mention of him on the roster. I hope for nothing but the best for Tanzel and his Brother. https://twitter.com/keeyon_19 I haven't heard anything. If we are truly losing all of these play...

Williams transferring to Grambling. Something that ppl should be paying attention to is how many of CJs guys are leaving and is it bc they couldn't make the grades here. I tend to believe a good bit of this recruiting stuff is bc we are not taking in the question mark kids that CJ was granted, most...

I share your concern. But that doesn't have to mean these guys are not good enough to play at a high level. Let's draw an analogy to pro football. Let's try a hypothetical where NFL prospects were rated by the same agencies with stars like we have in college. Let's go back and look at the 2011 New ...

Also, LSU is going to resist playing us again until (1) we enter a power conference or (2) they are forced to play us by the state. If neither of those things happen, it will be hard to get them on the schedule.

Willie Fritz when asked about the QB situation at AAC Media days: "That is the question mark for us. We need to figure this out and do it pretty quick. You can't give equal reps to three guys. We are early - we are going to whittle it down to two guys, and then we need to whittle it down to on...