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From a Tulane fan:

Our graduating senior just RT to Tarrant (who is leaving): "Take Ed Conroy with you".

This is a mutiny. The AD is clueless - and must be fired. The HC has no people skills - and must be fired.

Tulane needs to get their basketball house in order before they enter our conference in 2014

Tulane was a terrible addition to our new confernece

East Coast Mustang wrote:Tulane was a terrible addition to our new confernece

I'd rather have taken UMass (both have awful football, but at least one has a tradition in basketball and gives us more of the Northeast)

Tulane = horrible basketball, horrible football, and a fan base that couldn't give less of a [deleted].

Comet wrote:

East Coast Mustang wrote:Tulane was a terrible addition to our new confernece

I'd rather have taken UMass (both have awful football, but at least one has a tradition in basketball and gives us more of the Northeast)

Yep. Or Southern Miss

East Coast Mustang wrote:Tulane was a terrible addition to our new confernece

Do not complain as they bring academic stature to the conference and someone has to be in last place.

Oh good. I was worried people wouldn't see the "metro" conference as a serious academic conference.

Comet wrote:

East Coast Mustang wrote:Tulane was a terrible addition to our new confernece

I'd rather have taken UMass (both have awful football, but at least one has a tradition in basketball and gives us more of the Northeast)

I live in New England. Umass is a non entity in the area. People in Mass that follow college sports are BC or Harvard fans. At best, they are 3rd in the state. Outside Mass - no fans at all.

New Orleans in February or Boston in February?

Rooms get a little steep not to mention hard to find in New Orleans in February.

EastStang wrote:New Orleans in February or Boston in February?

We're talking football, so I'll take Boston in Sept-October over New Orleans any day of the week. But umass is in transition and 2012 was a total disaster in terms of results, interest, and attendance. UMass is playing its home games two hrs from campus at Gillette stadium for the next five years, but there has been tremendous backlash from students, alums and tax payers who are footing the bill for the transition. Too early to tell if the transition will be permanent because there is division and pressure to drop back down and return to Amherst, but the potential is there.

2 hours away??

SMU2007 wrote:2 hours away??

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. It would be like Baylor playing their home games in Jerryworld.

Sorry, but why the hell are they playing that far away? I

blackoutpony wrote:Sorry, but why the hell are they playing that far away? I

Per rules (I think conference but possibly FBS), umass needs a stadium of a certain size. The only two stadiums big enough within any kind of sane distance are Uconn's stadium and the New England Patriots stadium.

Because Uconn would be unlikely to let them use their stadium and because Gillette is in Massachusetts, it was really the only option until they can build a stadium on/near campus.