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Quit sugar coating it Peter. Toledo is a joke. No way should he have been given one more season after his pathetic record, but Rick Dickson didn't have the balls to go out and do the right thing and find an up and coming coach that could turn this program around. There couldn't have been more than 2500 fans at the game yesterday.. and that's ALL on Bob Toledo. Tulane football is currently at its lowest point in history. Even the awful teams of the 60s and 70s could garner more than 2500 bodies in the seats.

Clem is right. Toledo is an awful game management coach and he resorts to blaming others and other factors than his coaching for his losses. On the list of his blamestorming are: playing a game at Tad Gormley, the lack of fans in the Dome, having to honor the seniors before the game causing the opening kickoff to be returned for a TD, his previous punter for all of the punts that have been blocked, and not staying in a local hotel the night before a game causing his players to be unprepared. As far as the final item, that was HIS OWN FAULT, deciding to spend his budget increase on coaches' salaries and recruiting and eliminating the hotel expenditure. He blamed it on a vote by his players, but who the HELL runs his program based on his players' votes? BTW, the football budget was the ONLY budget on campus that wasn't slashed in 2010... I'm sure everyone else LOVED that information.

The one thing Toledo has done is step up local recruiting. Chris Scelfo burned every bridge imaginable in that dynamic, and CBT has rebuilt that bridge. But bottom line, he coaches his talent downward. Tulane needs a coach who can take marginal talent (compared to mid level and upper level BCS schools) and coach them up. Kinda like say... Tommy Bowden (and Rich Rodriguez).

Did you see how horrific Baylor was until a couple of years ago? Same with Texas Tech.... Kansas.. Kansas State. Hire the right coach and give him a couple of years to recruit and Tulane becomes a better program in the Big 12. Enough to beat Texas and Oklahoma? Probably not... but who DOES beat those two programs on a regular basis? Very few in that conference. The playing field at Tulane changes drastically in a BC$ conference. Suddenly, players who wouldn't consider a non BCS school but want a good education are putting Tulane on their list...so someone who would have chosen Stanford, Notre Dame, or UNC becomes a viable target for Tulane. Put Tulane in the Big 12 and suddenly it's not the Bob Toledo's of the world who want to coach your team, it's young up-and-comers who think they can build a program from the ground up OR guys like Rich Rodriguez or Tommy Bowden who both left (or would have left) Tulane because they were never going to get a fair shake in the BCS equation.

The Saints addressed every position on the field during the offseason except QB, WR and Strong Safety. The first two areas are fine and will be fine... the last, well just look at the fact that through the first half of last night, Roman Harper had been responsible for giving up 6 TDs in the last 6 quarters the Saints had played. Had Green Bay continued to feed the ball to Jermichael Finley last night, the score probably would have been 100-24. For some stupid reason, Rodgers stopped throwing the ball his way. While Harper came up big with a sack and some pressure in the second half, he is a huge liability in zone and man coverage. Hopefully Jon Amaya will step up in practice this week and take the starting job and Roman can go buy some "Just for Men" get rid of his gray hair and start playing like he did his rookie year.

I laud Gregg Williams for standing by his player (Harper) but come on... even a football novice knows he had a horrible game against Seattle. The biggest reason was because his safety net, Malcolm Jenkins, was injured and Darren Sharper was a shell of his former self. A healthy Jenkins in that Seahawks game completely changes the result. But seriously, Gregg, don't insult the fans or the media. They called it correctly. Harper was horrible... but nice job backing him up. If you TRULY wanted to back him up, you would have said it was YOUR fault that those big plays were given up by Harper... but I noticed you didn't say that.

If the team treats Ingram like they did Meachem and give him a "redshirt" year, then by far they used their "2012" first rounder very wisely. Let's just suppose the Saints would be drafting 27th or higher next year... no way will an impact RB be available then. My first reaction was "wasted pick, awful trade"... but you can never have too many RBs in the NFL, as we learned last year as Julius Jones was the only healthy back remaining in the second half of the Seahawks debacle (Deshawn Wynn was a seat filler, not a viable back). I don't think the Saints should boot Reggie over this. When healthy, he's an effective weapon in the passing game... when he and Pierre are on the field at the same time, the defense has no idea what to defend. But, on the flip side, Ingram had better learn how to catch a pass.

You guys don't know the half of it... I live here in Charlotte and have to see that abortion of an NFL franchise in the news on a daily basis. Richardson is a cheap skate. His own son quit the front office because the old man wouldn't spend any money. What's worse, Richardson has about half his faculties after open heart surgery. He slurs his words like he's having a perpetual stroke. Worst of all, his skin flint mindset is what's pushing the league to strike. He was the MAJOR advocate of scrapping the CBA before it expired. If there is a strike, it will be because of Jerry Richardson.

Yeah, nice attempt at a save... bottom line is the headline should read "180" not "360". Tammy does not write the headlines, some other hired buffoon at the TP does. She does a fine job covering Tulane athletics.

Back to the story... Aaron Holmes is the most talented player on the team and he is just now cutting loose. If he had played as well early on, and earned more minutes, I honestly think the Wave would have beaten Nicholls and been even closer to Georgetown. I just wish he had one more year to give the Wave after this one.

This team is maturing game by game. While the Wave will probably fall short of a post season bid in either tournament due to its schedule (thanks former Coach Dickerson), it will set up for a bright future for the underclassmen on this team by helping them gel on the court, play through adversity, and measure themselves against the rest of C-USA.

You're either Darren Sharper's wife or agent. Malcolm Jenkins has had a spectacular season considering it's his first at free safety. Let's consider he's been back there without Roman Harper for two games, and he's had to pick up the slack on coverage lapses by a rookie (Robinson) and a guy who's already been cut twice this year (Leigh Torrence). The play you mentioned against Tampa, he was right on the receiver and the receiver made a great catch. If there had been any kind of pass rush on Freeman all day, Jenkins would never have seen the ball come his way on that play. All that being said, Sharper should come in and play FS until the cornerbacks are 100% healthy. Jenkins could slide into the starting spot that is occupied by Robinson right now, with Patrick becoming the nickel back.. until Gay is 100%. When Porter and Gay are back, Jenkins and Sharper should both get time at FS.

well Jaymo, since the testing center probably has DECADES of trends and records, an 8 point jump in score is a statistical anomaly, calling for an investigation. All they see is a test score, they didn't know he was a Brazilian transfer student who probably got overwhelmed the first time he took an American standardized test and was fully prepared for round two, resulting in the better score.

Execute him? Seriously? The dude is @#$%ed in the head for having child porn, but execution for possession? How about we start by executing the actual sexual predators out there first? Then, after they're all gone, then we can think about the guys who are just plain perverts... OK?

As wonderful a story this is, there is one immutable fact about Hargrove last season: without him, the Saints don't win 13 games and do what they did in the playoffs and Super Bowl. This guy saved the team's bacon when Sedrick Ellis went down after Kendrick Clancy was lost for the season. He stepped up his game big time. Without his and Remy Ayodele's play, the defense would have been scorched. Thanks for what you did for us last year, Anthony... keep doing what you're doing. We're all behind you.

I guess all those Buffalo fans who groaned when they drafted CJ Spiller in the first round aren't groaning about that pick any more. I honestly think the Saints should maintain the status quo as far as RB depth. Let PJ Hill and Chris Ivory battle it out for the #3 spot, with the other heading to the practice squad if they successfully clear waivers. Ladell Betts is a nice option, but let these two kids prove they cannot handle it before making that decision. If he gets snatched up before then... so be it.

Crybaby doesn't cover it... how about being a completely delusional whiner? 18 times in the past 20 years, LSU has received a hand delivered ticket to Omaha. Six times, they failed to RSVP. Of those 6, only three times did they fail to exit Baton Rouge to get to Omaha... the three times the committee actually had the audacity of having LSU play a road super regional, they lost. Hosting regionals are pretty much the only reason LSU has national championships... outside of that one year they won it from College Station, they have never had to earn a national championship.

Actually, Jamar Nesbitt is suing them for his positive test earlier in the previous season. He did not fight the suspension. Nesbitt actually has a pretty good claim in the suit, because he lost his starting job and never got it back (thanks to Carl Nicks). He can contend he lost millions in salary and bonuses because of the suspension.

To your point about the NFL being a private club and wanting to dictate how to discipline its employees for violating their drug policy... it's a good point. However, their diligent defense isn't to maintain their rights to punish these players, it's to maintain the integrity of their drug enforcement policy as a whole. If the Williams boys effectively defeat the NFL, it opens the door for them to have to restructure the entire drug policy... even the cases that involve steroids and illegal narcotics.

The whole "you're responsible for what you put in your body" part of their drug policy is valid... however, when the league fails to put a substance they KNOW has an illegal ingredient in it on the banned list (which they failed to do with StarCaps after the Nesbit case), then it opens the door to THEIR OWN negligence.