Let me just say right off the top that I believe Dave Dickerson is a good basketball coach. But, he is up against an impossible situation.
He can't get the players he wants in school. And, he plays in one of the worst gyms, not arena, gyms, in college basketball.
It is time for a sea change in Tulane basketball. Time for school president Scott Cowen to relax admission standards to allow Dickerson to get talent in school, and give them a curriculum to graduate. Think this is heresy? Check out how many Duke basketball players have graduated in Sociology. Nothing wrong with that.
It also time for Tulane to change its schedule and go downtown to the Arena to play games. Fogelman is joke. You simply cannot recruit there. Don't tell me that Perry Clark won there. He did, but in a different time. New arenas are everywhere. Instead Tulane plays in a relic that was the best in the SEC, in 1948.
Time for Dickerson to upgrade his schedule, and go downtown.
Don't tell that students won't go. They will. And, if they don't so what. Tulane needs to recapture the New Orleans sports fan that isn't a Tulane graduate, but identifies with the school because of New Orleans. That person is out there.
But, he or she wasn't in the stands Saturday for a 74-73 loss to Binghampton.
Time for Scott Cowen and Rick Dickson to give their men's basketball coach the tools to be successful.