1ndabag wrote:Then we should just chuck it. That seems to be your position. It's Cowen's as well.
I'm not as cynical.
I know you disagree but how about let's try to succeed as opposed to acting like college football is such a cesspool that it isn't worth playing the game?
A football program that has played since 1893 with a storied history is now at the bottom of what amounts to a bush league, by design, and there is no shortage of folks who think that we can do no better. I think we can and we should.
Well, on that is where I agree more with the other poster.
Is Cowen out to "kill athletics?"
Not really. He'll be happy as long as the donations that enable Tulane to keep going keep on rolling in and they certainly aren't about to stop hounding alumni to keep those donations flowing (the other forum's very
raison d'etre).
He just is determined to keep costs to a minimum and to avoid a scandal at all cost.
I just happen to feel strongly that maintaining athletics in some kind of compromised position does not accomplish any positive good for the school at all. We're just essentially on a treadmill going nowhere.
If Tulane really does want to try go places, then great. Let us know.
But I dare say that we all already know how far Tulane is going to be able to go doing things the way that they seem to be set on doing, especially, as I said, in the 21st century with football and basketball being more real-world competitive business-like than ever (if you don't have customers, if you aren't doing business, you don't stay in business and that's that). And there's no staying level. Either your business in this world is growing or else it's shrinking. That's just the reality of it and if Tulane is ever going to truly start to move forward as a program then all parties in the Tulane camp have got to be fully realistic as to what it's all about.
But...if they don't have the stomach for it, that's ok, too. There's a place for you, then. It's called non-scholarship.
It's just that the worst thing is trying to do exactly what they're trying to do. And it's going to go nowhere and accomplish nothing and I honestly wish that alumni would stop propping it up with donations and make Tulane make a decision and actually earn their keep or close the business down.
Tulane sports: small football stadium, very small basketball arena, w̶i̶n̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶g̶r̶a̶m̶s̶, h̶o̶n̶e̶s̶t̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ , but, hey, now there's tailgating.