DfromCT wrote:. I hate that our stadium is so small on the NIMBY side. It looks like crap. It's a big time downer on the program, and I would love to simply flip the bird to the NIMBY's and build a very tall and steep deck above that side making Yulman one of the best home field advantages in D1 with our fans on top of the field.
But that's where there is supposed to be legal responsibility and corporate governance measures to prevent disasters of such magnitude. Tulane Board Members could be financially ruined for allowing this to happen, which is why I think they ought to open up their checkbooks for whatever Troy Dannen needs and asks for. They enabled this mess, they are legally liable for it and they should fix it.Ernie McCracken wrote:Yep. And building a too small stadium made sense only to Dickson. I guarantee that Dannen would not have built a 23k stadium.
It was supposed to help financially, with recruiting, with tailgating and with the gameday atmosphere. So far, the tailgating looks good. The rest looks like a massive, massive blunder.Ernie McCracken wrote:Yes, 30k was/is a total fudge and I would submit to you that the stadium doesn't advance the football program in any way.
At least we have a competitive adult running athletics now.
Agree. To make that happen the conference will need even better seasons than it had last year. It also needs better Bowl alliances.RobertM320 wrote:I think this is another indication that Aresco is trying to position the AAC as a sixth Power Conference. The hardest part of that equation would be getting the media to buy into it and getting the public to perceive it as such.
Then take legal action rather than post hundreds of complaints on an Internet bulletin board.jonathanjoseph wrote:But that's where there is supposed to be legal responsibility and corporate governance measures to prevent disasters of such magnitude. Tulane Board Members could be financially ruined for allowing this to happen, which is why I think they ought to open up their checkbooks for whatever Troy Dannen needs and asks for. They enabled this mess, they are legally liable for it and they should fix it.Ernie McCracken wrote:Yep. And building a too small stadium made sense only to Dickson. I guarantee that Dannen would not have built a 23k stadium.
This is the $64 question left intentionally unaddressed in my post. It does appear that Aresco is dissatisfied with us. It is not a good sign going forward for us; our best course is to return to MBSD, turn Cow/Dick into an IPF and basketball facility or into just an IPF and build new basketball facilities on now closed McCalister Drive.glennc wrote:One other thing . If a AAC stadium should seat 35,000 to 40,000 could tulane be forced out of the league.
Seriously.DfromCT wrote:Then take legal action rather than post hundreds of complaints on an Internet bulletin board.jonathanjoseph wrote:But that's where there is supposed to be legal responsibility and corporate governance measures to prevent disasters of such magnitude. Tulane Board Members could be financially ruined for allowing this to happen, which is why I think they ought to open up their checkbooks for whatever Troy Dannen needs and asks for. They enabled this mess, they are legally liable for it and they should fix it.Ernie McCracken wrote:Yep. And building a too small stadium made sense only to Dickson. I guarantee that Dannen would not have built a 23k stadium.
We would be a national laughing stock if we converted a 3 year old FBall stadium into an IPF or Bball arena.nawlinspete wrote:This is the $64 question left intentionally unaddressed in my post. It does appear that Aresco is dissatisfied with us. It is not a good sign going forward for us; our best course is to return to MBSD, turn Cow/Dick into an IPF and basketball facility or into just an IPF and build new basketball facilities on now closed McCalister Drive.glennc wrote:One other thing . If a AAC stadium should seat 35,000 to 40,000 could tulane be forced out of the league.
It was left unaddressed because its a stupid question, probably not worth 64 cents, much less $64. You don't accept a school into a conference knowing they're building a 22K seat stadium, then tell them after the fact its too small and kick them out. Stupidity.nawlinspete wrote:This is the $64 question left intentionally unaddressed in my post. It does appear that Aresco is dissatisfied with us. It is not a good sign going forward for us; our best course is to return to MBSD, turn Cow/Dick into an IPF and basketball facility or into just an IPF and build new basketball facilities on now closed McCalister Drive.glennc wrote:One other thing . If a AAC stadium should seat 35,000 to 40,000 could tulane be forced out of the league.
We are a regional laughing stock now, and admitting our stupidity and correcting the problem NOW by returning to MBSD may be the only way to undo the stupidity of the B of A's reign of terror that created this albatross.mbawavefan12 wrote:We would be a national laughing stock if we converted a 3 year old FBall stadium into an IPF or Bball arena.nawlinspete wrote:This is the $64 question left intentionally unaddressed in my post. It does appear that Aresco is dissatisfied with us. It is not a good sign going forward for us; our best course is to return to MBSD, turn Cow/Dick into an IPF and basketball facility or into just an IPF and build new basketball facilities on now closed McCalister Drive.glennc wrote:One other thing . If a AAC stadium should seat 35,000 to 40,000 could tulane be forced out of the league.
Although we all know there isn't anywhere close to 30k seats in the bowl of the stadium, the official capacity is 30K. When we sell out, we announce and publish attendance of 30K. They're not going to come and count the seats; just as the official capacity of Devlin/Fogelman is 4100 (yeah, right!) both don't have the seating but both will have inflated attendance numbers whenever we sell them out.RobertM320 wrote:It was left unaddressed because its a stupid question, probably not worth 64 cents, much less $64. You don't accept a school into a conference knowing they're building a 22K seat stadium, then tell them after the fact its too small and kick them out. Stupidity.nawlinspete wrote:This is the $64 question left intentionally unaddressed in my post. It does appear that Aresco is dissatisfied with us. It is not a good sign going forward for us; our best course is to return to MBSD, turn Cow/Dick into an IPF and basketball facility or into just an IPF and build new basketball facilities on now closed McCalister Drive.glennc wrote:One other thing . If a AAC stadium should seat 35,000 to 40,000 could tulane be forced out of the league.
Yeah I agree with this - we shouldn't be worried about being kicked out of the AAC in the foreseeable future and we don't need to worry about changing or modifying our football game day facility until (1) a better conference requires us to make changes in order for us to gain entry in that conference or (2) we consistently sell out Yulman and we need to expand to accommodate the demand for fans.RobertM320 wrote:It was left unaddressed because its a stupid question, probably not worth 64 cents, much less $64. You don't accept a school into a conference knowing they're building a 22K seat stadium, then tell them after the fact its too small and kick them out. Stupidity.nawlinspete wrote:This is the $64 question left intentionally unaddressed in my post. It does appear that Aresco is dissatisfied with us. It is not a good sign going forward for us; our best course is to return to MBSD, turn Cow/Dick into an IPF and basketball facility or into just an IPF and build new basketball facilities on now closed McCalister Drive.glennc wrote:One other thing . If a AAC stadium should seat 35,000 to 40,000 could tulane be forced out of the league.
Ah the proverbial chicken of the egg.Aberzombie1892 wrote:Yeah I agree with this - we shouldn't be worried about being kicked out of the AAC in the foreseeable future and we don't need to worry about changing or modifying our football game day facility until (1) a better conference requires us to make changes in order for us to gain entry in that conference or (2) we consistently sell out Yulman and we need to expand to accommodate the demand for fans.RobertM320 wrote:It was left unaddressed because its a stupid question, probably not worth 64 cents, much less $64. You don't accept a school into a conference knowing they're building a 22K seat stadium, then tell them after the fact its too small and kick them out. Stupidity.nawlinspete wrote:This is the $64 question left intentionally unaddressed in my post. It does appear that Aresco is dissatisfied with us. It is not a good sign going forward for us; our best course is to return to MBSD, turn Cow/Dick into an IPF and basketball facility or into just an IPF and build new basketball facilities on now closed McCalister Drive.glennc wrote:One other thing . If a AAC stadium should seat 35,000 to 40,000 could tulane be forced out of the league.
This.mbawavefan12 wrote:Ah the proverbial chicken of the egg.Aberzombie1892 wrote:Yeah I agree with this - we shouldn't be worried about being kicked out of the AAC in the foreseeable future and we don't need to worry about changing or modifying our football game day facility until (1) a better conference requires us to make changes in order for us to gain entry in that conference or (2) we consistently sell out Yulman and we need to expand to accommodate the demand for fans.RobertM320 wrote:It was left unaddressed because its a stupid question, probably not worth 64 cents, much less $64. You don't accept a school into a conference knowing they're building a 22K seat stadium, then tell them after the fact its too small and kick them out. Stupidity.nawlinspete wrote:This is the $64 question left intentionally unaddressed in my post. It does appear that Aresco is dissatisfied with us. It is not a good sign going forward for us; our best course is to return to MBSD, turn Cow/Dick into an IPF and basketball facility or into just an IPF and build new basketball facilities on now closed McCalister Drive.glennc wrote:One other thing . If a AAC stadium should seat 35,000 to 40,000 could tulane be forced out of the league.
Despite not being abe to fill their previous stadium, the University of Houston went out and built a $130mm stadium that can seat 42k plus and has all the bells and whistles including support assets (meeting rooms, weight room, training rooms, offices etc.). This is a big reason why their recruiting has increased drastically and they were able to retain Tom Herman. A 23k Yulman with crap support assets will leave us with an up hill climb when competing against the rest of the AAC on the field and in recruiting, never mind retaining good coaches.
I don't think you understand how that works.DfromCT wrote:Then take legal action rather than post hundreds of complaints on an Internet bulletin board.jonathanjoseph wrote:But that's where there is supposed to be legal responsibility and corporate governance measures to prevent disasters of such magnitude. Tulane Board Members could be financially ruined for allowing this to happen, which is why I think they ought to open up their checkbooks for whatever Troy Dannen needs and asks for. They enabled this mess, they are legally liable for it and they should fix it.Ernie McCracken wrote:Yep. And building a too small stadium made sense only to Dickson. I guarantee that Dannen would not have built a 23k stadium.
