As bad a schedule as we've had in years; particularly poor at home.
Only 1 interesting series started; 2 new series with sunbelt.
Dreadful. We can do better.
It's not a step backward. It's just that we should do better than that. To say it's a step backward is to ignore entirely the terrible non-cons of the Conroy ear. This is better than that. It also starts too early for my taste.
And may our enemies, if they exist, be unconscious of our purpose. - From The Lady Vanishes
I haven't spoken to anyone. Here is my SWAG. Tulane invested the budget in the Spanish exhibition tour instead of guarantees for say an A-10, BE or even P5 school home game(s). Since you can only do a foreign trip once every four years, it is a one-off. We should see a better home OOC next year when the resources are reallocated to visiting guarantees. Again this is literally a hypothesis and nothing more.
This gave Dunleavy almost an extra month of organized practices, some reasonable exhibition competition and a way to build team chemistry.
No one seems to be complaining about the road OOC schedule (which to believe the NCAA is now even more important for post-season evaluations) or the conference home schedule, which except for missing WSU in Fogelman is a solid slate.
Succeed against this schedule and Tulane will make the post-season. I know some here hate the Road Warrior scheduling but it's a viable strategy to advance the program.
I'm a season ticket holder and I happily renewed. What Dannen and Dunleavy did is ok with me and I'm putting my wallet behind it. FWIW I'll be at most if not all of these games except the Loyola exhibition which I typically skip.
Baywave1 wrote:I haven't spoken to anyone. Here is my SWAG. Tulane invested the budget in the Spanish exhibition tour instead of guarantees for say an A-10, BE or even P5 school home game(s). Since you can only do a foreign trip once every four years, it is a one-off. We should see a better home OOC next year when the resources are reallocated to visiting guarantees. Again this is literally a hypothesis and nothing more.
This gave Dunleavy almost an extra month of organized practices, some reasonable exhibition competition and a way to build team chemistry.
No one seems to be complaining about the road OOC schedule (which to believe the NCAA is now even more important for post-season evaluations) or the conference home schedule, which except for missing WSU in Fogelman is a solid slate.
Succeed against this schedule and Tulane will make the post-season. I know some here hate the Road Warrior scheduling but it's a viable strategy to advance the program.
I'm a season ticket holder and I happily renewed. What Dannen and Dunleavy did is ok with me and I'm putting my wallet behind it. FWIW I'll be at most if not all of these games except the Loyola exhibition which I typically skip.
Your hypothesis makes some sense. My concern is less about whether I'm getting my money's worth from my season tickets, and more about whether this OOC schedule will help prepare the team for AAC level competition.
I understand your concern. I would say the one month of extra practice and Spanish exhibitions are more than adequate prep substitution for AAC play in lieu of a home game or two against P5/A-10/BE teams at home.
When Conroy did this stuff he scheduled fluff OOC teams on the road too. So yes Tulae was never ready for CUSA play. Remember the year where Tulane was literally last in the SWAC at one point in pre-conference?
BTW we should be playing UNO. Don't know what happened there. It obviously was not a budgetary decision.