Revisiting SMU-Tulane...Superdome/game thoughts

[leopold]

There is constant chatter about Tulane building an on-campus facility.

http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/20 ... s_foo.html

There are multiple scenarios, but you have to believe that they could pull it off if they so chose to. Hope they do.

[docabel]

From the look of it on TV, I wouldn't have fathomed 60 people were there. I think those dark seats really camoflouge people, but the only time I was sure there were people there was when they zoomed in for closeups.

[PoconoPony]

On TV it appeared that the only people there were the Mustang Band the teams and coaching staffs. Horrible setting with so few in the crowd.

[skyscraper]

There is constant chatter about Tulane building an on-campus facility.

http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/20 ... s_foo.html

Thanks for the link. Very interesting. Hadn't heard about their plans for an on-campus facility.
The Superdome is a great facility, but not for what Tulane football is. A streetcar ride to Uptown for a future SMU/Tulane game sounds good to me.

[Charleston Pony]

lots of similarities between Tulane and SMU and assuming we may both be slated for long term futures in CUSA or as conference mates wherever we play, I'd love to see them build a facility similar to what we have in Ford Stadium.

[Mestengo]

http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/fo ... e/2009.pdf


East Carolina 7 292,191 41,742
UCF 7 266,543 38,078
Southern Miss. 6 184,178 30,696
Memphis 6 154,769 25,795
Tulane 6 150,884 25,147
Tulsa 6 135,010 22,502
SMU 6 128,085 21,348
UAB 5 89,933 17,987
Rice 6 81,309 13,552

[Nacho]

those are tremendously inflated numbers for tulane.

[PonyKai]

Agreed. They might be that if they take Saints home games and Tulane home games then just average the two together.

[Stallion]

the two similarities is that SMU used to be led by a pinhead and Tulane still is.

[tristatecoog]

A question is how Tulane can even SELL that many tickets.

It was that bad last year as well. UH had more fans than Tulane and there were similar comments about the atmosphere. A large Domed, off-campus stadium isn't the way to go.

[RGV Pony]

A question is how Tulane can even SELL that many tickets.

It was that bad last year as well. UH had more fans than Tulane and there were similar comments about the atmosphere. A large Domed, off-campus stadium isn't the way to go.

as you can well attest