Ponies tell MWC to shove it

[Water Pony]

The concept of a bridge year has allowed Navy, AFA and Army to be more competitive. Each school has a Prep School or High School Post Graduate program, where athletes in particular can beef up academics while getting coached and trained. Navy has a school in Newport, RI and that also allows the HS grad another year of maturity for what will be a very demanding program. They don't take marginal students but this maturing benefits them the way that mission program work for BYU.

If Tulane uses their University School that way, good for them. BTW, Joe Montana's QB son just committed to Tulane.

[Stallion]

no tuition and no scholarships at academies and prep schools make it a totally different deal plus we are talking about different profiles of student athletes

[Water Pony]

no tuition and no scholarships at academies and prep schools make it a totally different deal plus we are talking about different profiles of student athletes

I agree. I was simply noting that the use of a PG High School/Prep School could pay dividends for Tulane in connecting to their community and providing a channel FB, who would not have qualified without this remedial option.

[BenW]

18 Elite Recruits (Rivals 4 star+) in DFW
14 Elite Recruits in entire state of Louisiana

Texas certainly has more quality recruits than La, but La also isn't ferreted out as well as Tex by the recruiting services. There just isn't the same recruiting pressure from schools the Services keep a top eye on. (LSU is the only major program that La is its primary territory; and there really isn't a 2nd tier program for which La is primary either, which makes Tulane's ineptitude even sillier). Louisville just offered 2 of our (Tulane) commits, fresh off the Sugar Bowl (they probably decided to check things out and got some tips while here for the Sugar Bowl). One of the commits had a lot of AQ offers and 3 stars; the other did not. The La "directionals", if they have a smart coach (like ULL has) can do very well with off-beat recruits: late and non-qualifiers, as you explained, transfers, and ULL's coach has a pipeline to Mississippi JCs.
Other issues re Tulane, since it's discussed here:
One thing that has gotten better since Katrina is that the quality of inner city public school education in N.O. has improved significantly. That helps us. A lot of those players are now recruitable, especially as our standards are more reasonable now.
We've upped the number of NCAA minimum qualifiers that the coaches can take, although it's not a full class. We will not recruit JCs that didn't qualify out of high school, but with the additional resources we've put in, they do have better budgets to find some who did qualify (like Montana; you generally have to go to California to find them).
We can't place players in the "Continuing Studies" school, but they can take some classes there. Admitting the low-qualifiers is one thing; keeping them in schools is another and I'm sure SMU has the same challenge there.
We are concentrating on the New Orleans area and south and west up to Baton Rouge. But that will take us only so far, but if we do it right, it will make us respectable, and then we can go from there.
We're getting back into the game and it's been a long time.
Good luck to the Mustangs and congrats on 4 straight bowls.