Telling of Dickson's Tenure

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2015-16 FB/MBB combined conference records
Boston College: 0-26
Rutgers: 2-24
Wake: 3-23
Minn: 4-22
Mizzou/Tulane 4-21 w/ game to play.
https://twitter.com/BryanDFischer/statu ... 3472028672

And for perspective, Tulane's situation was far worse than the others, who were rebuilding or unhappy with their current situations. CJ and Conroy are coaches on contract extensions that Dickson thought were about to pay off.

Still nothing that changes my opinion that Dickson is the worst AD in D1A history.


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“I like where our program is headed,” said Conroy, now 90-102 at Tulane. “I know people want instant success, but it’s a process, especially at a place like Tulane. I like where we are in that process. I feel really confident that we are going to be one of those teams in contention next year.”
http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/sp ... on-way-out

Ed Conroy could have won 18 games this year and I can guarantee you Dannen would still have fired him based on the above quote alone.

Just goes to show you that the fish rots from the head down, which is to say Conroy's quote is straight from the Cowen/Dickson plan of low standards and no accountability. A coach with a similar record at another university would not try to spin this as progress, they'd say that they know it isn't good enough. The majority of people who work at the Wilson Center still think this way and Dannen will clean it out, but it will take some time.

It's a nice reminder for how much repair work Dannen has to do just to get to "even" and meanwhile COWEN AND DICKSON ARE STILL ON THE PAYROLL.
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Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
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lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
Which is exactly what JJ and many of us on this board have been preaching for years.
"That mantra is the only consistent thing that never needs to ever change for the rest of this program’s existence because that is all that matters & as long as that keeps occurring, everything will handle itself" -- Nick Anderson
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RobertM320 wrote:
lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
Which is exactly what JJ and many of us on this board have been preaching for years.
Great and since those changes have been made, I look forward to JJ in particular buying tickets and contributing to Tulane. It's time now to do more than messaging on fan boards.
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lurker123 wrote:
RobertM320 wrote:
lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
Which is exactly what JJ and many of us on this board have been preaching for years.
Great and since those changes have been made, I look forward to JJ in particular buying tickets and contributing to Tulane. It's time now to do more than messaging on fan boards.
Dear "lurker",

For starters, I will be returning to the active donor roll but feel no compulsion to disclose that here. Hiding behind an anonymous screen name telling other people what to do with their money lacks both class and tact. Clearly, a remnant of Dickson's culture.

Further, I will not "buy tickets" to games which I won't be attending. Since you've been "lurking" since the days of Rick Dickson, you seem unaware that there's a new plan for Tulane Athletics, and it isn't trying to guilt people into buying tickets they don't plan to use so that Dickson can talk about how made metrics go up showing obviously what a great job he was doing. The new plan is to actually sell tickets to people who are able to attend events because they want to see good athletics competition, and since we have very small FB and BB gameday facilities I'm sure Dannen wants actual people in those seats.

Thanks for the ugly reminder of what we are putting in our rear view mirror.
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jonathanjoseph wrote:
lurker123 wrote:
RobertM320 wrote:
lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
Which is exactly what JJ and many of us on this board have been preaching for years.
Great and since those changes have been made, I look forward to JJ in particular buying tickets and contributing to Tulane. It's time now to do more than messaging on fan boards.
Dear "lurker",

For starters, I will be returning to the active donor roll but feel no compulsion to disclose that here. Hiding behind an anonymous screen name telling other people what to do with their money lacks both class and tact. Clearly, a remnant of Dickson's culture.

Further, I will not "buy tickets" to games which I won't be attending. Since you've been "lurking" since the days of Rick Dickson, you seem unaware that there's a new plan for Tulane Athletics, and it isn't trying to guilt people into buying tickets they don't plan to use so that Dickson can talk about how made metrics go up showing obviously what a great job he was doing. The new plan is to actually sell tickets to people who are able to attend events because they want to see good athletics competition, and since we have very small FB and BB gameday facilities I'm sure Dannen wants actual people in those seats.

Thanks for the ugly reminder of what we are putting in our rear view mirror.
+1. Looking forward to when a sell out in tckets distributed doesn't = a half empty stadium.
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lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
This is a very charitable assessment of Mr. Cowen ("rampant mediocrity...that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane.") I don't recall a great many successes in any area during his watch. I choose to believe that he was a micromanaging, administrative failure who consistently made poor choices. Oh by the way...the poor choices he made always seemed to enrich the Cowen family at the expense of Tulane. There seemed to be an inverse relationship between his net worth and Tulane's scholastic ranking.
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Cowen did one thing well: he brought in 2 new waves of big donors into Tulane. The first wave consisted of a lot of Cowen sycophants; but the second Wave devoured him. It was also this second wave that became involved in athletics…coincidence?
Athletically, the best thing Cowen did was spearhead the MWC Alliance and then, when backstabbed by our “friends” in C-USA, got on the phone to the Big East.
As for Dickson, he was a mediocre AD before Katrina; when he decided to institutionalize Katrina, he became an awful AD. His arrogant cancellation of the G Tech series was the beginning of the end for him (and I said so at the time). He was apparently oblivious to how the Atlanta donors would react; and that money got on the phone, not to him, but to Cowen, to get the game back on the schedule.
That cancellation really epitomized Dickson: arrogant, self-centered, unconcerned about the fans or the donors.
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lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
This is a very charitable assessment of Mr. Cowen ("rampant mediocrity...that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane.") I don't recall a great many successes in any area during his watch. I choose to believe that he was a micromanaging, administrative failure who consistently made poor choices. Oh by the way...the poor choices he made always seemed to enrich the Cowen family at the expense of Tulane. There seemed to be an inverse relationship between his net worth and Tulane's scholastic ranking.
Correct. Same BS allowed to be repeated about the previous regime. Cowen was an across the board failure and a crook to boot.
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DrBox wrote:Cowen did one thing well: he brought in 2 new waves of big donors into Tulane. The first wave consisted of a lot of Cowen sycophants; but the second Wave devoured him. It was also this second wave that became involved in athletics…coincidence?
Athletically, the best thing Cowen did was spearhead the MWC Alliance and then, when backstabbed by our “friends” in C-USA, got on the phone to the Big East.
As for Dickson, he was a mediocre AD before Katrina; when he decided to institutionalize Katrina, he became an awful AD. His arrogant cancellation of the G Tech series was the beginning of the end for him (and I said so at the time). He was apparently oblivious to how the Atlanta donors would react; and that money got on the phone, not to him, but to Cowen, to get the game back on the schedule.
That cancellation really epitomized Dickson: arrogant, self-centered, unconcerned about the fans or the donors.
If there were any credit to be given to Cowen for bringing in new donors, then either the endowment would have grown more than an index over the same period and/or Tulane wouldn't have hidden and massive deficits.

Also the MWC Alliance? It may or may not have been effective, but the one thing we do know about it is that it was a failed enterprise, like all Cowen efforts.
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jonathanjoseph wrote:
GreenLantern wrote:
lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
This is a very charitable assessment of Mr. Cowen ("rampant mediocrity...that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane.") I don't recall a great many successes in any area during his watch. I choose to believe that he was a micromanaging, administrative failure who consistently made poor choices. Oh by the way...the poor choices he made always seemed to enrich the Cowen family at the expense of Tulane. There seemed to be an inverse relationship between his net worth and Tulane's scholastic ranking.
Correct. Same BS allowed to be repeated about the previous regime. Cowen was an across the board failure and a crook to boot.
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Box I usually agree w/you on most things. However, on the MWC issue we strongly disagree. That was SC's attempt to very publicly concede that these were the lesser programs. Once the others realized that was his plan it was doomed.
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The Cowen and Dickson obsession continues. Why pollute Troy Dannen's thread with that garbage?
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Show Me wrote:The Cowen and Dickson obsession continues. Why pollute Troy Dannen's thread with that garbage?
You're right. I just can't help myself.
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Show Me wrote:The Cowen and Dickson obsession continues. Why pollute Troy Dannen's thread with that garbage?
Such a good, positive thread it was, too.
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Show Me wrote:The Cowen and Dickson obsession continues. Why pollute Troy Dannen's thread with that garbage?
You're right. I just can't help myself.
It's not ancient history. They aren't even off the payroll yet. Their mess of a legacy will come up often for some time to come.
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winwave wrote:Box I usually agree w/you on most things. However, on the MWC issue we strongly disagree. That was SC's attempt to very publicly concede that these were the lesser programs. Once the others realized that was his plan it was doomed.
Your characterization of what Cowen wanted may be correct. But I disagree that C-USA had any objection to that: Contemporaneous with stopping the negotiations, C-USA also voted to add La Tech and a bunch of sunbelt schools. That was a public concession, in action, to a level of inferiority that alliance the MWC never would have approached.
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jonathanjoseph wrote:
lurker123 wrote:
RobertM320 wrote:
lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
Which is exactly what JJ and many of us on this board have been preaching for years.
Great and since those changes have been made, I look forward to JJ in particular buying tickets and contributing to Tulane. It's time now to do more than messaging on fan boards.
Dear "lurker",

For starters, I will be returning to the active donor roll but feel no compulsion to disclose that here. Hiding behind an anonymous screen name telling other people what to do with their money lacks both class and tact. Clearly, a remnant of Dickson's culture.

Further, I will not "buy tickets" to games which I won't be attending. Since you've been "lurking" since the days of Rick Dickson, you seem unaware that there's a new plan for Tulane Athletics, and it isn't trying to guilt people into buying tickets they don't plan to use so that Dickson can talk about how made metrics go up showing obviously what a great job he was doing. The new plan is to actually sell tickets to people who are able to attend events because they want to see good athletics competition, and since we have very small FB and BB gameday facilities I'm sure Dannen wants actual people in those seats.

Thanks for the ugly reminder of what we are putting in our rear view mirror.
Always happy to help. Typing 8000+ messages is easy. It's time now to open the wallet to support what you say you believe in and that includes buying tickets. Tulane plays regularly in California including last month. Did you go? Or will you rationalize that one away too?
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winwave wrote:Box I usually agree w/you on most things. However, on the MWC issue we strongly disagree. That was SC's attempt to very publicly concede that these were the lesser programs. Once the others realized that was his plan it was doomed.
Your characterization of what Cowen wanted may be correct. But I disagree that C-USA had any objection to that: Contemporaneous with stopping the negotiations, C-USA also voted to add La Tech and a bunch of sunbelt schools. That was a public concession, in action, to a level of inferiority that alliance the MWC never would have approached.
My point is that the MWC people realized SC's motive and then ended it.
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RobertM320 wrote:
Show Me wrote:The Cowen and Dickson obsession continues. Why pollute Troy Dannen's thread with that garbage?
Such a good, positive thread it was, too.
A shame. We need to move forward and leave Cowen and Dickson in the gutter where they belong.
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lurker123 wrote:
jonathanjoseph wrote:
lurker123 wrote:
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lurker123 wrote:Nice guys can win and tough guys can lose. You still have to coach regardless of the content of your character. Conroy and Teevens may be the two "best" men we have had at Tulane. Regrettably they could not fill the job description and moved on.

Cowen's issue is that for whatever reasons he literally embraced rampant mediocrity in TU athletics that he wouldn't accept in any other area of Tulane operations. When he figured out around 2012 that the mediocrity was literally harming* Tulane he turned the boat around and started with facilities. After he left Board and Fitts decided Athletics leadership and coaching had to follow and began with Dannen. Right choice.

*Cowen woke up when he saw Tulane losing outstanding applicants to P5 schools which ranked below Tulane in every measure but Athletics. Yes tuition had something to do with this but Tulane started throwing so much aid around that eliminated much of that issue. (Very few undergrads at Tulane pay "retail" quoted tuition.)

Example #1: Jesuit. Tulane used to get a third to a half of Jesuit's top students every year. Now it only gets two to three percent and LSU gets half, the only "flagship" university in America that a governor has threatened to close. So while LSU academicians are running for the exits to save their jobs the best local students still flock there because LSU has a Top 10 athletics experience, education be damned.

In short that is why we are seeing the change at Tulane we do today.
Which is exactly what JJ and many of us on this board have been preaching for years.
Great and since those changes have been made, I look forward to JJ in particular buying tickets and contributing to Tulane. It's time now to do more than messaging on fan boards.
Dear "lurker",

For starters, I will be returning to the active donor roll but feel no compulsion to disclose that here. Hiding behind an anonymous screen name telling other people what to do with their money lacks both class and tact. Clearly, a remnant of Dickson's culture.

Further, I will not "buy tickets" to games which I won't be attending. Since you've been "lurking" since the days of Rick Dickson, you seem unaware that there's a new plan for Tulane Athletics, and it isn't trying to guilt people into buying tickets they don't plan to use so that Dickson can talk about how made metrics go up showing obviously what a great job he was doing. The new plan is to actually sell tickets to people who are able to attend events because they want to see good athletics competition, and since we have very small FB and BB gameday facilities I'm sure Dannen wants actual people in those seats.

Thanks for the ugly reminder of what we are putting in our rear view mirror.
Always happy to help. Typing 8000+ messages is easy. It's time now to open the wallet to support what you say you believe in and that includes buying tickets. Tulane plays regularly in California including last month. Did you go? Or will you rationalize that one away too?
Once again, I have very little respect for anyone calling someone out by name behind an anonymous screen name.

But let's dissect your stupidity.

For starters, actually it's far easier to open your wallet than it is to type 8000 messages. Anyone can make an online donation in less than 5 minutes, but it takes years to follow an athletic program to contribute 8000 messages to the fan community discussion. In fact, that kind of contribution is far more valuable than the typical sized donation.

You are just a fool who is stuck on Rick Dickson's definition of what a good fan is, which is to say whatever got him closer to getting the full value of his Xmas bonus at the expense of Tulane Athletics.

Second, lets address your second personally directed accusation, which is the already discredited and proven false accusation that I don't attend Tulane sporting events (again, straight from Dickson's playbook of lying to discredit opposition). I'm going to assume you are referring to the basbeall teams recent visit to San Diego. Do you know that SD is 500 miles from where I live? Or is that inconvenient to your blasphemous accusations? SD is farther from where I live than Atlanta is from NO. Have you attended every Tulane sporting event within 500 miles of NOLA? If not, you are a hypocrite.

A loser, a fool, a hypocrite and a coward. But please, feel free to keep adding to the list.
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lurker123 wrote:Always happy to help. Typing 8000+ messages is easy. It's time now to open the wallet to support what you say you believe in and that includes buying tickets. Tulane plays regularly in California including last month. Did you go? Or will you rationalize that one away too?
Lurker, although I am loathe to give compliments to JJ, I don't feel that it is fair to question his love and passion for Tulane. JJ always has the answer to any problem, and he will not economize with his number of posts explaining why he is right and you are...well, wanting for wisdom. He's sort of like Donald Trump, only with less money.
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winwave wrote:Box I usually agree w/you on most things. However, on the MWC issue we strongly disagree. That was SC's attempt to very publicly concede that these were the lesser programs. Once the others realized that was his plan it was doomed.
Your characterization of what Cowen wanted may be correct. But I disagree that C-USA had any objection to that: Contemporaneous with stopping the negotiations, C-USA also voted to add La Tech and a bunch of sunbelt schools. That was a public concession, in action, to a level of inferiority that alliance the MWC never would have approached.
My point is that the MWC people realized SC's motive and then ended it.
C-USA withdrew from the talks and ended it, not the MWC.
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