@ScottDKushner @Matt_Fortuna The irony is car dealers make far more money than car manufacturers. And there are no privately owned car manufacturers either.
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Big EZ Wave
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@Matt_Fortuna Do you really think the big donors at Texas, Texas A&M and Georgia are mostly car dealers?
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“SEC donors own car dealerships. Big Ten donors own car manufacturers.”
It's not just the football, MBB and WBB titles. (And maybe hockey this weekend, too.) It's not just this year's NFL Draft forecast, either.
No, this B1G wave of dominance is so much more than that.
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@samkarlin Every state in the South without an income tax is growing like a weed. Old economic truth holds true, capital flows to where it’s treated best.
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Louisiana is likely to roll out a host of tax breaks and legal benefits to companies like Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, in hopes of landing an aerospace project.
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@sohowistexas First baseball game this year had 5x the number at basketball games.
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Of course Tulane doesn’t care. Baseball makes no money and there’s 100 people at the games
But they do have to answer to boosters. We aren’t even at a comfortable level of mid. This team is awful
I’m saying it would be cheap to change baseball coaches if they were forced to
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@sohowistexas @GreenWaveMan You are underestimating how cheap ass the administration is. Yes, any other school in our conference would put an end to this farce but Tulane will not. Get used to watching bad baseball through 2029.
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@sohowistexas stop hiring Presidents and admins from northeastern liberal arts schools and stop trying to be ivy league light
Miami should be the model
Also, increase student base from the LA, the southeast and Texas
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Maybe I’m too hard on Tulane. It is a private, academics first school in SEC country
The football run was unexpected and awesome
Let’s make a compromise. Just field a decent baseball program again, which should be doable and not too expensive
I think that’s fair
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@TulaneHype @sohowistexas @ScottDKushner Just fwiw. The Charlotte coach made $750k this year. RH made at least $1.4 mln and had a top 3 rev share. The issue is what it is let's hope they learn some lessons.
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@BigEZWave @sohowistexas @ScottDKushner That was 3 years ago. Now we're being out spent in hoops by Charlotte.
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The American Conference is just bad at men's basketball right now.
The regular season and tournament champion getting a 12 seed and losing to Louisville (missing its best player) might be a low point for the league.
Not USF's fault, but the league is very weak.
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And Tulane what say you?
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SMU AD Damon Evans told @dallasnews today he's "not content" with SMU just making the NCAA Tournament and College Football Playoff. "Our expectations are higher.” On SMU's fight to prove it belongs at the highest level of college sports ⤵️ dallasnews.com/sports/smu-mus…
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@TulaneHype @sohowistexas @ScottDKushner Here’s the thing - looked it up via public records. After the 3 big12 teams left, Tulane was paying its coach the 2nd highest in the league by far. Money was spent. The league was ripe for the taking with how bad Memphis is coached. That’s frustrating.
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@BigEZWave @sohowistexas @ScottDKushner For sure. Dannen's biggest error.
This is about an athletic program that has tried to do things on the cheap for decades and it never worked.
Dannen actually pushed the program forward. Harris is like Dickson, except he'll never tell you to go across the street.
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@TulaneHype @sohowistexas @ScottDKushner Just to be clear I’m referring to Dannen in ‘24 extending him for another 2 yrs into ‘28. Seems obvious money was reason for no change this yr. Agree w/ FB as priority but this coach over 8 yrs is going to make well over $10 million and delivered what exactly for us? Unreal.
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@BigEZWave @sohowistexas @ScottDKushner It's a lack of understanding of the economics of the current landscape. That's not acceptable.
This is a firable offense. Fitts needs to fix this.
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@sohowistexas @ScottDKushner and Charlotte who fired their coach after only 3 seasons even though he finished 5th in the league this year
I would blame Troy Dannen's love of one way extensions, but who approved them? This school sorely lacks people with P4 experience in the upper administration imo.
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@ScottDKushner It isn’t just Tulane. Most teams don’t care and aren’t trying besides USF, Memphis, and Wichita
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Another sign I’m getting old. Covered Tayler Polk when he was a tackling machine at Brandon High & teammates with Gardner Minshew. Now he’s a college defensive coordinator.
Meet Tayler Polk, Tulane's popular new DC | Tulane | nola.com nola.com/sports/tulane/…
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@sohowistexas I would add Dannen too. And whoever in the administration it is that approves stupid extensions to a guy who is never getting hired away. No business sense at all.
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Tulane baseball can continue to be irrelevant I guess. The glory days are over
I just want David Harris to apologize to us for bringing Hunter back and not doing his job
Seeing the joy from everyone participating in March Madness. It’s not fair that we never get to do that
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@sohowistexas Whoever the coach is or needs to be, the higher ups (Fitts et al) need to give the program the full allotment of scholarships now. For years we couldn’t compete like we used to because of 11.7, then they change the rule and we’re stuck on the old number. 🤦♂️ @DavidHarrisAD
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@sohowistexas Whoever the coach is or needs to be, the higher ups (Fitts et al) need to give the program the full allotment of scholarships now.
For years we couldn’t compete like we used to because of 11.7, then they change the rule and we’re stuck on the old number. 🤦♂️ @DavidHarrisAD
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You can’t criticize Wave baseball and Jay Uhlman without making people upset
Respectfully, the Clearwater tournament runs were great but the program hasn’t improved
Tulane sports are regressing fast under David Harris. If football can’t hang on it’s over
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#Tulane's situational hitting has been absolutely atrocious. Trent Liolios pinch hit for Matthias Haas with runners on second and third and one and did the one thing he could not do--strike out. Johnny Elliott then swung at first pitch and hit routine grounder to third.
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@Guersmith may be off here but I just noticed more guys trying to rebound on offense last night than the usual none while everyone goes back in transition
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@BigEZWave But the Memphis numbers were an outlier and something to do with the way Penny's teams play. Tulane usually has a lot of offensive rebounds against Memphis but seldom against other league opponents.
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From last night: my recap of #Tulane's American Conference-tournament opening win against Memphis, with Rowan Brumbaugh going off for 25 second-half points.
nola.com/sports/tulane/…
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