Not quite sure how that works. Does he serve at the pleasure of the Board? Is his contract renewable each year or for a fixed set of years? Perhaps it is time for a "review" on his status! By the way, don't know if any of you saw the article in Today's Living Section. The Board purchased ...

I have a hard time coming up with any sort of logical reasoning for renewing my season tickets after that interview. Talk about complete surrender. Does anyone else think his 65 scholarship comment sounds like de-emphasis on the horizon if the NCAA doesn't mandate it? We play in one of the greatest...

As others have stated, he was trying to eliminate D1 football and do it quietly. There is a local family who are past and present supporters of Tulane athletics. The father, I believe, was on the board at the time and was privy to the talks about destroying football. His son decided to leak that in...

As usual, we're preaching to the choir. Well, "preaching to the choir" is definitely true of me. It's therapy; "venting" as they say. But you are trying to reach a much larger audience and I, for one, appreciate it. It's a long overdue effort. If there was one of those emoticons...

I understand there is a new Wave Chat letter out.

Can anyone privileged enough to be someone Tulane thinks important enough to communicate with post the text somewhere on this forum? Thanks.

In addition to communication, Leonsis makes the point about pursing a strategy, for reform in the case of his article, despite the short term pressure you get to shift to this direction or that. He, of course, is correct, when you are convinced that the strategy you are pursuing is the right one an...

Ted Leonsis with a blue print for how Cowen/Dickson should be communicating with Tulane fans in the Internet age. Think Leonsis has any credibility on this?

http://www.tedstake.com/2011/02/01/we-d ... criticism/

Posted to the New Wave Blog and you can add any comments/feedback on the Facebook page too.

http://bit.ly/fpTH28

I think monitoring and the consolidating information for other site is a good idea. Perhaps it can be just a simple as another separate board called " Tulane in the Media" This board could have just the links of all outside stories or a capsule of what a story might have said. We will tak...

They want to be able to write letters or emails reminding you that they "don't judge by wins and losses" without a mechanism for people to call bullshit or talk back. Absolutely right. That's a very textbook symptom of an age old problem, i.e. incompetent, insecure leadership who, rather ...

Can't understand this. Tom Benson gets parking and concession revenue from Tulane Football games in the dome. Tom Benson owns Fox Channel 8. They had a nice interview with Toledo. Why doesn't marketing get with Tom Benson as a business and show him that if Tulane average 35-40,000 fans for each gam...

Remember Tom Benson owns Channel 8. I believe he is trying to help Tulane out, maybe for selfish reasons. He makes money on concessions and parking for the games. So if he builds up Tulane it helps him financially. Which is why it's negligence, almost criminal negligence, that every stakeholder in ...

What you are referring to is simply the concept of social media, and you are correct it's a no brainer. Truthfully, everything you described can and should be done at a basic level with a Facebook page. I've spoken to Tulane Athletics about their social media strategy (back when I was bending over b...

The problem is that along with all the internal mistakes we have made throughout the years to hinder (feels more like kill) our football program, the non-BCS schools have allowed the system to draw a line in branding and more importantly in revenue sharing. And there is no turning back. There is no...

In early December, after it was announced that Bob Toledo would be retained, I sent, what I felt was a strong email to Rick Dickson. Wish I would have saved a copy but it basically said that he was rolling the dice and that IF we get off to a bad start next football season that the season would be ...

Who did this letter go out to? I took it off of YOGWF (under " Rick Dickson -- Wave Chat " or something like that). I thought it would attract some interest, . . . and I guess that I was right for a change. I haven't received it and I'm a (former) donor who is most definitely on their mai...

It's the year 2011.

Internet > AM Radio

The competitive goals have been set: to compete successfully in our division in Conference USA and be eligible to compete in post-season bowls. Just ridiculous. I have never seen any athletic program, or any business or organization of any type, ever come out and say that their goal is to be medioc...

Wait, so he mailed a letter? To whom?

Didn't he start the Youtube chats to accomplish the same thing?

over on Scott's board. Between Wave Report and this board we are seeing better discussion about Tulane athletics than we have in years. Shows just how harmful the YOGWF whitewashing of the discussion has been.

Really, what would have to happen to get some new blood in office?! There's no checks and balances, except for us, the fans. We need to make enough noise that people know that we (the fans/alumni) are unhappy. For the most part, no one knows and/or no one is paying attention. That's why it's on US ...

1ndabag wrote:

golfnut69 wrote:forward the info to New Orleans.com

Good idea. Trahan or one of those guys might do a piece about it.

Already emailed it to Trahan. Someone would definitely do a story about it if the Facebook page had over a 1000 followers.

A few things: 1) I doubt there will be a BCS by 2015. It's becoming harder and harder to say no to $500M-$1B that comes with a playoff and Mark Cuban can make this happen. 2) BYU will prove that going independent can and will be profitable (even though they have some advantages in their own TV broad...

Independent that is why we are in the situation we are in now. We thought we didn't need the SEC. Bull. Independents don't share in large TV contracts or anything else that a good BCS Conference has. BCS Conference affilliation is security. Going at it alone is super risky. That would be make it or...

I posted the results from the Tulane athletics survey I posted a while back. Makes it clear there is a LOT of dissatisfaction and a LOT of money that would result from Tulane having a good athletic program. People are angry, they just need to get organized. http://newwaveblog.tumblr.com/post/2624627...