lurker123 wrote: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?
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.