The real reason Tulane admitted to the conference?

[Charleston Pony]

maybe we should start beating Tulane more regularly before anyone puts them down

Aside from last year, June Jones is the only coach at SMU that has been able to beat them in football and we haven't exactly dominated them in hoops...and let's not even bring up attendance issues...we both have a long ways to go as small private schools in professional sports cities

[PonyKai]

I vote for attendance smack because compared to Tulane, we're totally a dwarf among midgets.

[PonySnob]

maybe we should start beating Tulane more regularly before anyone puts them down

Aside from last year, June Jones is the only coach at SMU that has been able to beat them in football and we haven't exactly dominated them in hoops...and let's not even bring up attendance issues...we both have a long ways to go as small private schools in professional sports cities

Tom Rossley beat Tulane in 1991......

[Water Pony]

maybe we should start beating Tulane more regularly before anyone puts them down

Aside from last year, June Jones is the only coach at SMU that has been able to beat them in football and we haven't exactly dominated them in hoops...and let's not even bring up attendance issues...we both have a long ways to go as small private schools in professional sports cities

Agreed. As the saying goes, "people in glass houses should not be throwing stones." The attendance bar cannot be very high, when we choose to talk smack.

[EastStang]

I think Tulane was instrumental in getting us into CUSA. I am certain that Turner probably was in the pro-Tulane camp.

[PonySnob]

They have been ranked in the top 25 in football more than we have during the last 25 years........

[Digetydog]

Before anyone makes fun of Tulane's non-revenue sports, one needs to consider the fact that their campus was destroyed and many of their athletes moved to other schools permanently. Essentially, they had to start from scratch.

[PonyTime]

Following the storm, priorities changed and athletics fell way down the list. The academics took over the University.

Sound familiar anyone?

Katrina's impact on Tulane was akin to DP+AKPye at SMU. Not exactly the same - but not all that far off. In SMU's case, a good portion of the school did not transfer out, just the football team.

As for the Tulane game that year - Matt Forte ran over our entire team that day. I really don't want to remember that game.

[Mexmustang]

"Tulane's football team didn't go to SMU. They went to Louisiana Tech."

They were here on the SMU campus. A number of us watched them! They later moved. Copeland (Copeland) and Turner then invited them to our game and provided tickets--they were laughing at our stupidity, not our hospitality--I sat with them with a major Tulane booster that later went to SMU from Tulane and was honored by our B-School as a distinquished SMU alumni.

They were laughing at us at our stupidity all the way to a victory against us in the same stadium.

I can assure you, depite an article at second rate Florida paper by a kid in his 20's, SMU was their major sponsor in the Faux Big East...how many here think Rice (or Tulsa at the time) is more deserving?

I am getting real tired of some of you youngsters that believe all things will be fixed by simply hiring a new coach--just remember, when Jones and Brown applied for the jobs, no one, no one trusted Turner and the disfunctional athletics at SMU. If they hadn't taken the jobs just who do you think would have accepted? These were the longest searches I have ever seen or been a part of in college athletics!

[Grant Carter]

"Tulane's football team didn't go to SMU. They went to Louisiana Tech."

They were here on the SMU campus. A number of us watched them! They later moved. Copeland (Copeland) and Turner then invited them to our game and provided tickets--they were laughing at our stupidity, not our hospitality--I sat with them with a major Tulane booster that later went to SMU from Tulane and was honored by our B-School as a distinquished SMU alumni.

They were laughing at us at our stupidity all the way to a victory against us in the same stadium.

I can assure you, depite an article at second rate Florida paper by a kid in his 20's, SMU was their major sponsor in the Faux Big East...how many here think Rice (or Tulsa at the time) is more deserving?

I am getting real tired of some of you youngsters that believe all things will be fixed by simply hiring a new coach--just remember, when Jones and Brown applied for the jobs, no one, no one trusted Turner and the disfunctional athletics at SMU. If they hadn't taken the jobs just who do you think would have accepted? These were the longest searches I have ever seen or been a part of in college athletics!

You lost a lot of credibility on the whole SMU getting Tulane into the big east when after months of you claiming that turner was the only big east president with a personal connection to Tulane, the Florida paper published texts from the UCF president to aresco in which the UCF president said the Tulane president was a personal friend. How do you explain being so wrong about that?

[East Coast Mustang]

Ummm, also, Tulane is a significantly better addition than Rice. No one really gives a [deleted] about either's athletic program, but Tulane at least brings the conference exposure in a another significant media market. Adding Rice would have made zero sense considering UH had already joined. Let's just go ahead and put that to bed right now.

[East Coast Mustang]

Also, a legitimate excuse to go to Nola for a weekend? This isn't even a debate.

[CalallenStang]

"Tulane's football team didn't go to SMU. They went to Louisiana Tech."

They were here on the SMU campus. A number of us watched them! They later moved. Copeland (Copeland) and Turner then invited them to our game and provided tickets--they were laughing at our stupidity, not our hospitality--I sat with them with a major Tulane booster that later went to SMU from Tulane and was honored by our B-School as a distinquished SMU alumni.

They were laughing at us at our stupidity all the way to a victory against us in the same stadium.

I can assure you, depite an article at second rate Florida paper by a kid in his 20's, SMU was their major sponsor in the Faux Big East...how many here think Rice (or Tulsa at the time) is more deserving?

I am getting real tired of some of you youngsters that believe all things will be fixed by simply hiring a new coach--just remember, when Jones and Brown applied for the jobs, no one, no one trusted Turner and the disfunctional athletics at SMU. If they hadn't taken the jobs just who do you think would have accepted? These were the longest searches I have ever seen or been a part of in college athletics!

Yep, SMU got Tulane into the Big East, despite not having a vote until July 1, 2013.

The basketball schools controlled the vote. They had been looking for an excuse to leave for a long time. They added Tulane and then used them as an excuse to leave. Period.

[Stallion]

Mexmustang is borderline crazy about his Turner hatred. SMU showed some class and sportsmanship by lending a helping hand to a university devasted by a Huricane. Yet he calls SMU's decision by Turner "stupidity". Its not Turner's fault SMU's football team got their [deleted] whupped by a team that clearly outplayed SMU. Only crazy people who have completely lost perspective place the importance of a football game over assisting Tulane after a natural disaster. Good for Tulane-they kicked our [deleted].

[Water Pony]

I do not under MexMustangs obsession about this topic that few think is a significant issue, much less deserving the apparent wrath toward SMU administration. Besides opening our campus to a fellow private school after NOLA was devastated by Katrina seems as an appropriate and generous action. Continuing to reopen an non-issue seems strange to me.