Tulane would be a very long range vision kind of pick and it seems like gambling a lot for a conference looking to buck up their interests in the more short to medium term.

They have a 20k stadium in a place that it can't easily be expanded. Are they going to go back to hosting in the Superdome when they play teams that actually bring lots of fans.

The issue of being a primarily academic institution is an issue for college football as well. Although there are handful of really academic schools with BCS football programs (Stanford, NW, Vanderbilt, and Duke) IMO there is going to be more and more pressure in the coming decade on the primarily academic institutions to think about down-scaling or removing their football programs.

Memphis and Cincinnati make a lot more sense for a lot of reasons but that's JMO

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Posted by Cheese Grits

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Posted on 6/24/15 at 5:58 pm to molsusports

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Tulane would be a very long range vision kind of pick and it seems like gambling a lot for a conference looking to buck up their interests in the more short to medium term.

Aside from academics, travel distance, metro city, and a host of other issues the biggest may be pride. Taking Tulane means adding a charter SEC school and getting into an SEC state now that the SEC is back in TX. As AR and MO are single state schools, nobody to take there and going to the west means NM and nothing exciting there.

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They have a 20k stadium in a place that it can't easily be expanded.

If Cincinnati is the other school then they have the perfect model already in place. Bearcats play most all games at home but play Paul Brown (NFL Bengal) when they can sell 50K to 60K seats. Tulane could follow the same model.

Bottom line is all the best options are already off the table, so going to 12 now means taking a program with fleas and hoping you can build them up.

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