Tammy Nunez is just awful. I would rather no beat writer at all than her. She is without question the worst we've had in my lifetime.
I love this little gem:
The Tulane fan base’s demand for an on-campus football stadium is at an all-time high, and Cowen and Dickson know it.
Really? Based on what does she put forth that little nugget as fact? Did she take a poll? No. She's just printing as fact what she is being told by the Cowen/Dickson regime. Let that sink in. She's stating that the fans are clamoring for a stadium because
that's what she was told by the two boobs running things.
So, under the cover of objective "journalism," she's regurgitating what the failed Cowen/Dickson regime wants to be reported as objective fact. That's not journalism. It's propaganda. I don't think Nunez is complicit with the idiots in charge, she is clearly not smart enough. I just think she is lazy and not very good at what she does.
The stadium issue is the reddist of red herrings. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the disgraceful condition of Tulane football. The blame for that lies SOLELY with SCOTT COWEN and his flunky Rick Dickson. The bogus stadium issue is simply a means by which Scott Cowen seeks to shift focus and blame from himself and his failed, stupid policies, to alums and fans. It's our fault that Tulane football is the worst program in the country because we haven't ponied up enough money yet. See how the flim flam man works? And Nunez goes right along like a zombie.
It's as plain as day. Unless you're a thick skulled pseudo-journalist.
Hey, Tammy, THINK!! ASK SOME QUESTIONS!! STOP TAKING DICTATION FROM COWEN/DICKSON AND PASSING THEIR TALKING POINTS OFF AS JOURNALISM!! WE'RE NOT STUPID!!
Sorry for the yelling, guys, but it's all infuriating. In an economy like this how do such incompetents keep a job?
Turv I won't do a dissection of your comments but this one quote stuck out for me, "I heard Scott Cowen said that [a stadium] is now a priority, so
I guess I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt as to what he said."
I bet you wish you had that one back. He has done NOTHING to merit the benefit of any doubt. In fact, just the opposite. Any objective observer of the Cowen regime could only conclude that he is not to be trusted, at all, in anything he says.
I don't know who this Hertz guy is and I don't care. But he's obviously still gulping the Cowen flavored Kool Aid.
Here's a little nugget:
"He [Hertz] said he understands fans’ frustration over the perceived slow pace of fundraising for a football stadium, but he never would have donated major dollars without trusting the administration’s vision."
Who is upset over "the slow pace of fundraising for a football stadium"? And what "vision" would that be Doug? The Tulane model? The Division III vision which is really the fantasy of your buddy Scott Cowen? The "we're tied at the hip with TCU" until they actually succeed wildly then "we're not the same as TCU, we're better" vision? That one? The "higher admission standards so we can avoid arrests of student athletes" then have former student athletes sitting in prison anyway vision? The latest wheelbarrow full of bullsh!t coming out of the administration whose stock in trade is bullsh!t, the "Playbook?" That vision Doug?
Do you see the meme continuing here? Reread the quote above. Trust the "vision," and donate dollars. That's the whole approach and has always been the approach under Tulane's present con-man president. All Cowen has to come up with is "vision," and we have to pony up money. And he has the luxury of not really having to actually DEFINE any vision with specificity or in any way where he can be held accountable. Then when all continues to fail, it's our fault because we didn't support Cowen's "vision" with even more money.
I won't waste anymore of my Sunday commenting on the rest of Hertz's idiotic remarks. With a handful more dupes like Hertz on board 'ol Scotty boy might be able to scrape up a few bucks, not that he'd be smart enough to do anything useful with it.
The second commandment has not been abrogated.
