Battle for the Rag/ State of Louisiana Championship

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GAT BoilerPickle Doc

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Out of all your known alters, this one may be the worst.

Tyjae Spears is gone so I'm not sure who Tulane has to replace his electric playmaking abilities with. Tulane has a season like that once every 25 years or so and usually the year after they revert to sucking again. I do think Fritz is a good coach though so maybe he can keep them from absolutely flatlining again, but I don't expect them to repeat what they did last year.

As far as the rivalry, that ship has sailed long ago. Only boomers care about that anymore. I was in school when we had that attempted 10 year deal that stopped midway through. No one cared about any of the games except maybe the 07 one when they played in the dome and had special Katrina uniforms. There's no hate there anymore.

Maybe if Tulane stayed in the SEC and didn't leave to play a national schedule so they could chase the eastern seaboard Jew money it would still have meaning today, but alas. It's basically the equivalent of the Texas/Rice rivalry now.

Are we allowed to say horns down again yet?

This is stupid. Tulane’s last win against LSU was in 1983. Just because they had a good season by their standards doesn’t mean that they would give LSU a good game.

One thing you are missing: the other state schools in Louisiana asked for and are receiving a chance to play LSU in order to receive a payday to fund their programs. Most of us dislike the games against Southern/McNeese, etc, but they were scheduled as a measure of good will.

While I fondly remember the days when LSU and Tulane would play the last regular season game of the year, and in New Orleans where there is a very large percentage of LSU fans, the loser fans in certain bets had to push the winner fans around the blocks in wheel barrows, I do not think that this will happen on any kind of a regular basis.

LSU will not give up a home date to Tulane as there is too much money to be made to having any other school come to Tiger Stadium, Tulane included, for a game. LSU would take a bath in the amount of cash that they would lose to play Tulane at Yulman. I don't think it would work at the Superdome, either.

I think this would be the equivalent of Ohio St. playing a home and home on a yearly basis with Ohio or Kent St.

I do miss the LSU/Tulane rivalry. It was definitely much bigger in New Orleans than anywhere else in Louisiana.

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It's an opportunity for Kelly and his blue chip talent to prove themselves against Willie Fritz and his band of mid-major misfit brainiacs.

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Tulane is no different than any other directional U in Louisiana. I'd like to see a rotation of Louisiana teams playing in Tiger Stadium every year, but Tulane isn't special enough to earn a yearly game.