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I agree completely with Ed Daniels enough was not said yesterday. And thinking they are better than other universities is what got Tulane where they are today.

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a PR disaster !!! 15 minutes late...zero football coach's on the the stage...none of the "Special Teams Letterman' on the stage or the names even mentioned...almost as an afterthought some of the new initiatives mentioned, but made sure they praised themselves and by the way, if I am paying 50,000.00 dollars, who the hell is Cowen to tell me I need to work in the community for 30 hours a damn week with and for people who give one hell of a lot less if anything get's done, to enhance his own stature in the community, while I could be hangin' on Maple street !!!...while i appreciated the Admin wanting to share their goals..this came out as a fly (insert you own substance matter) in the punchbowl..what a mess

Mr. Daniels was right on with everything he said. Plain and simple.

This is such a bunch of crap. We have a bunch of morons running the show. There is no hope for Tulane University under these people. Daniels is right but we did not need to have him say whats has been obvious for a long time to all but a very few kool-aid drinkers who end up enabling these two halfwits.

I went to Ole Miss my Freshman year of college and lived in the athletics dorm aka Kinard Hall. I was surrounded by Ole Miss/SEC football players. None of them were criminals or bad people and as a matter of fact they were actually much more well behaved than 95% of the frat kids on campus, myself included, who thought they owned the place and were drunk every minute of the day. My roommate worked in the English Lab and he spent most of his time helping football players with papers. Dickson is completely out of touch. Just because there are a few schools out there in history that have been out of control at some point in reality 95% of the schools that admit kids on NCAA standards have few if any problems. The school and police have way more problems with kids who have 30 on their ACT and spend most of college drunk. A thug is a thug and it has little to do with the ACT score. In reality its the programs that have way too many kids in the program/walk-ons that have alot of problems. I spent my next 4 years at LSU. 95% of their players were well behaved and caused zero problems. Do you know who was the biggest problem of LSU players in Baton Rouge? Punter Donnie Jones, he was constantly in fights at bars. I would bet he qualified for Tulane's rigorous academics while 75% of the well behaved ones didnt. Perriloux was a thug, it had nothing to do with his ACT score. Justin Vincent was a nice guy, had nothing to do with his ACT score. Dickson basically equated ACT scores and GPAs with criminal and non-criminal which is completely unreal. If you recruit the right people and EDUCATE them you'll have zero problems. I was much more well behaved in high school then college because I played baseball and basketball and didn't want to get kicked off the team.

NOLABigSteve wrote:Mr. Daniels was right on with everything he said. Plain and simple.

Agree 100%. And what he said needs to be repeated over and over in the local media.

sader24 wrote:I went to Ole Miss my Freshman year of college and lived in the athletics dorm aka Kinard Hall. I was surrounded by Ole Miss/SEC football players. None of them were criminals or bad people and as a matter of fact they were actually much more well behaved than 95% of the frat kids on campus, myself included, who thought they owned the place and were drunk every minute of the day. My roommate worked in the English Lab and he spent most of his time helping football players with papers. Dickson is completely out of touch. Just because there are a few schools out there in history that have been out of control at some point in reality 95% of the schools that admit kids on NCAA standards have few if any problems. The school and police have way more problems with kids who have 30 on their ACT and spend most of college drunk. A thug is a thug and it has little to do with the ACT score. In reality its the programs that have way too many kids in the program/walk-ons that have alot of problems. I spent my next 4 years at LSU. 95% of their players were well behaved and caused zero problems. Do you know who was the biggest problem of LSU players in Baton Rouge? Punter Donnie Jones, he was constantly in fights at bars. I would bet he qualified for Tulane's rigorous academics while 75% of the well behaved ones didnt. Perriloux was a thug, it had nothing to do with his ACT score. Justin Vincent was a nice guy, had nothing to do with his ACT score. Dickson basically equated ACT scores and GPAs with criminal and non-criminal which is completely unreal. If you recruit the right people and EDUCATE them you'll have zero problems. I was much more well behaved in high school then college because I played baseball and basketball and didn't want to get kicked off the team.

At 28 you're wise beyond your years, sader.

We don't win because we have inferior talent. That's about as scintillating and insightful as saying we don't win because we don't score as many points as the opposition. Not a syllable about why we have inferior talent.

Also he dismisses message boards as "irrelevant" and people who post on them "crackpots." They were pretty relevant in 2003, Ed, dontcha think? Maybe he's just peeved that non-professional journalists, aka "crackpots" seem to be getting all the scoops.

All in all a disappointing piece. He usually does a much better job. From the nolasports site:

http://www.sportsnola.com/sports/tulane ... scape.html

The internet can be brutal but it does allows fans to be heard. That's good. It's no difference then people that call in talk radio. There are crackpots in all walks of life. It fairly easy to find them...........they are the one's that disagree with you.

Daniels' schtick is old. It's the Tulane model, Tulane can never be competitive, the school hamstrings coaches, etc.

Really? It's harder to win at Tulane than Army? Navy? Stanford? Duke?

A lot of fans love Ed because he goes after the TU admin's history of not doing everything it takes to win, but coaches love him too -- he absolved them of any accountability whenever he puts pen to paper.

You can win at Tulane. There is no reason for us losing by 40 to Army or 20 to Duke.

I usually like Ed, I thought this piece sucked. There are crackpots that are on TV, see the Mackels. If someone would give me a nightly sports show I wouldn't have to be on here, it doesnt make me any less knowledgeable than alot of the idiots we are forced to watch and listen to on a nightly basis. Toledo is a bad coach any way you slice it.

Interesting...

Daniels just brought this up... He said, "I'll ask a different question. Do you have confidence in the people in charge at Tulane, Cowen and Dickson, to do what is necessary to win."

Finally, a media person asking the same question we've been asking for years. I don't know if WGNO puts video of his EDitorial on their site. It might be worth a look.

RobertM320 wrote:Interesting...

Daniels just brought this up... He said, "I'll ask a different question. Do you have confidence in the people in charge at Tulane, Cowen and Dickson, to do what is necessary to win."

Finally, a media person asking the same question we've been asking for years. I don't know if WGNO puts video of his EDitorial on their site. It might be worth a look.

Saw that, he said all the former football and basketball coaches hired by RD had to be accountable but what about RD?

Good stuff. Like him or not, Ed has always been pounding the "the TU administration needs to commit" drum. Sounds like he may have stepped it up.

Speaking to a reporter from WWL, Rick Dickson actually said the following:

"He (Toledo) can't be measured from year to year. The one thing I know for sure is that we haven't had a foundation in place for any coach...any program to operate from. And, and, instead of sitting back and watching, and hoping that, you know, that Yogi Berra would show up, and everything's great...is, we've got to put the infrastructure and things in place to say it doesn't matter if it's Yogi or Mickey - you can come in and succeed"


Hasn't he been here for over 10 years - supposedly putting that infrastructure in place? Did he mean Bear Bryant? Yogi Bear? Boo Boo? Mickey Mantle? Mickey Mouse???

All I can say to that is HOLY TOLEDO..............

tpstulane wrote:Speaking to a reporter from WWL, Rick Dickson actually said the following:

"He (Toledo) can't be measured from year to year. The one thing I know for sure is that we haven't had a foundation in place for any coach...any program to operate from. And, and, instead of sitting back and watching, and hoping that, you know, that Yogi Berra would show up, and everything's great...is, we've got to put the infrastructure and things in place to say it doesn't matter if it's Yogi or Mickey - you can come in and succeed"


Hasn't he been here for over 10 years - supposedly putting that infrastructure in place? Did he mean Bear Bryant? Yogi Bear? Boo Boo? Mickey Mantle? Mickey Mouse???

All I can say to that is HOLY TOLEDO..............

The guy doesn't know the difference between baseball and football but he's AD? SUX. Incompetence writ large.

Well, that is really a "sad" comment to make. SAD SAD SAD!!!

TURVS71 wrote:Well, that is really a "sad" comment to make. SAD SAD SAD!!!

Actually it's 'Scary Sad' !! Honestly his statements make him sound like a Rec. Center Director trying to run a summer softball league.

So do his actions.

has the Ed Daniels piece.I hope it gets done right but we have a ninny for a AD.John Curtis would be a good AD-he realizes a new stadium is stupid when you have the dome.Spend that cash on recruiting budget,indoor practice field,salaries.Is Dickson that damned stupid?

torbida wrote:has the Ed Daniels piece.I hope it gets done right but we have a ninny for a AD.John Curtis would be a good AD-he realizes a new stadium is stupid when you have the dome.Spend that cash on recruiting budget,indoor practice field,salaries.Is Dickson that damned stupid?

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Dickson is totally lost, he's made a simple equation into a problem on a nuclear physicist could solve. It's very easy Rick, pay a legit salary to a legit coach, let him recruit, make sure the kids stay in school, forget the stadium. WIN.

sader24 wrote:Dickson is totally lost, he's made a simple equation into a problem on a nuclear physicist could solve. It's very easy Rick, pay a legit salary to a legit coach, let him recruit, make sure the kids stay in school, forget the stadium. WIN.

Exactly! Not rocket science here.

Agree with you all on Dickson. He needs to go now. But sadly until Cowen retires Dickson will still be here. We needy to bring pressure and make Dickson toxic to get him fired or get him to resign or retire.

Jonathan wrote:Agree with you all on Dickson. He needs to go now. But sadly until Cowen retires Dickson will still be here. We needy to bring pressure and make Dickson toxic to get him fired or get him to resign or retire.

That's right. And all we need to do is publicly discuss his failings. If Dickson were credible on this we'd be powerless, but it's time to call an immediate end to the Dickson era. There is a very important coaching search and conference realignment going on and Dickson is scolding fans while talking about building a small stadium which is sure to turn off big time coaches and eliminate us from consideration in the Big 12. Which, oh by the way, he can't raise the money for. Which comes 10 months after he gave a contract extension to Toledo.

If there is no accountability for this type of failure, then there is no change in Tulane Athletics and Cowen will have killed the program. The time for accountability is now.