Tulane Football

[davish75]

Is Tulane going to play their home games at Ford Stadium? Why can't the student take classes at SMU?

[Cheesesteak]

The Superdome is presently out of service for football (Green Wave and Saints) and the Tulane football team is practicing on the Hilltop.

SMU and Tulane have balanced schedules thru October 8th that would allow Tulane to play home games at Ford Stadium, if SMU is willing.

SMU Mustangs
09/03 Baylor
09/10 TCU
09/17 @ Texas A&M
09/24 Tulane
10/01 @ Marshall
10/08 @ UAB

Tulane Green Wave
09/04 @ USM (moved to November)
09/10 open
09/17 Mississippi State
09/24 @ SMU
10/01 Southeastern Louisiana
10/08 Houston

Any news about where Tulane will play, if they play?

[Cheesesteak]

Friday, September 2, 2005
Tulane to play football this fall
Associated Press l ESPN.com

They haven't quite figured out how yet, but Tulane is going to play football this season.

Students are being allowed to enroll in "nine of the leading higher education associations," according to a statement from Tulane president Scott Cowen. That means the school's athletes will also be able to play sports this fall.

"We're playing ball," said Scott Sidwell, Tulane's associate athletic director. "Now it's up to us to make it happen."

Athletic director Rick Dickson and Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky began discussing contingency plans for Tulane after the team forced to leave New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. The duo flew to Houston on Friday and met with Cowen.

"Until 4 p.m. on Friday," Dickson said, "we didn't know the answer if we could compete in our sports programs."

But a decision was made to get Tulane students in classrooms, and that meant football players, too. The team is currently staying in Dallas, as guests of Southern Methodist University.

"We want our athletes to carry the torch, face, and name of Tulane University during this difficult time," Cowen said.

"Logistics have not even been tackled," said Dickson, who will remain in Houston for weekend meetings. "The first priority between now and next week is to make a decision of where to place the team and to get them in class."

The Green Wave's first game will be Sept. 17 against Mississippi State. It is yet to be determined whether the game, originally scheduled for New Orleans, will be played in Starkville, Miss., or in Tulane's future "home."

But the players just want to play.

"We need this season," Wave quarterback Lester Ricard said. "I think that will be the ultimate joy, to see us do well this season."

"It's something that we want to do for New Orleans," Wave linebacker Antonio Mason said. "A lot of people look at us as not only reps of Tulane, but of New Orleans. People can look at us and say, wow, look at that team they're going on the road, going through all that adversity, and still getting the job done."

[Corso]

Nobody thinks football is as important as everything else that's going on down there. But if the practices and games can allow the players and coaches to offer the community a distraction, if only for a few hours a week, than it's well worth all of the effort it will take to put together a season. Sure, I'm pulling for the Ponies to win every week, but Tulane has just become my second team.

[DFW HOYA]

I hope the 9/24 game sells out and there is a considerable show of donations that night for our visitors from New Orleans.

[MrMustang1965]

Just out of curiosity...does anyone have a rough estimate on the number of Tulane alumni in the D-FW area?

[H-E-B Mustang]

... if they're not going to cancel the season, wouldn't it make more sense for Tulane to just play all games on the road? That way, there would be more fan support. Other than when they play against us, I don't think many people in Dallas would show up for a Tulane game.

[MrMustang1965]

...wouldn't it make more sense for Tulane to just play all games on the road?

Won't they be doing that already?

[EastStang]

This might be where being in the western division would help Tulane at the gate if they did play in Texas. I think they get UH, UTEP at home. USM travels well (and is their biggest rival). They could play UTEP in San Antonio and probably draw a huge crowd. They could probably arrange with Rice to play UH in Rice's stadium. SE La. might not be a great draw anywhere but in N.O. Perhaps they could play that game in Shreveport or Baton Rouge. I'm not sure about their other crossover games. Mississippi State could be played just about anywhere in the south. Perhaps Birmingham.