Tulane-Can anyone tell me what's happening there?

Yes!! Great things!
Son is loving it! New field is opening in April. Until Turchin opens, the Green Wave play @ Zephyer.
They had a great recruiting class of incoming freshmen, and a couple high caliber transfers for this season. 2008 committs are strong, too. Rick Jones was "Coach of the Year", 2005. Mark Kingston is terrific assistant & recruiting coach.
www.yogwf.com is the "official Tulane" message board...visit http://tulanegreenwave.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/013007aaa.html for a story on the upcoming season.
Follow this link to the Alumni Game...Micah Owings, 2006 Ariz. Diamondbacks Minor League Player of the Year, along with several other Tulane-Pro players are to be playing...
http://tulanegreenwave.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/013007aac.html
Tulane has recovered pretty well from Katrina...just opened a new Student Center, renovations to other areas are ongoing, academic programs are again expanding. Admissions criteria are strong, but I am very thankful that first year athletes have a mandatory 8 hour per week study hall. Academic support is a priority, coaches really want the players to succeed. Usually they have a couple Academic All-Americans on the team. If you look over the roster, you'll find a player from from Conn...
Recruiting classes are 6-10-12.
Feel free to pm or email...I'll be glad to help you anyway I can.
Roll Wave!

My sons friend from HS and cape teammate, Warren McFaddon plays at Tulane. Son also got a chance to play this summer with some of the Tulane guys, Shooter Hunt just transfered from UVA.

My son said he got the impression the team was very close, like his, and that says a lot for a program!

The program and the players recovered well from Katrina. I suppose if you can do that, you can do just about anything!

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Originally posted by baseballmom:
New field is opening in April. Until Turchin opens, the Green Wave play @ Zephyer.

Is it a completely new field or the same field but rennovated post Katrina?

I would not send my son to Tulane, even though it is a fine school, for one reason - New Orleans. New Orleans has been an unsafe town for some time. And now it is much worse, as has been documented in various news reports.

Something to consider...

New Orleans is no worse than Houston, NYC, LA, Chicago, Detroit or Miami

Trouble can find you anywhere if you put yourself in the wrong position

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Originally posted by TRhit:
New Orleans is no worse than Houston, NYC, LA, Chicago, Detroit or Miami

Trouble can find you anywhere if you put yourself in the wrong position

TR, What do you base your opinion on? Have you actually been there? Since Katrina?

Texan is correct. I've been there. It is BAD! REALLY BAD! They called BACK the National Guard to patrol. I'm going back in May...strapped. Almost the entire professional community has fled. The health care system is in shambles. If you go, don't get sick. NOLA was always a tough, nasty town. It is a mess now.

We went to an information session in NYC a few months ago sponsored by Tulane. They spent the first hour talking about the recovery and about how 95% of the students who had gone to other schools after Katrina had returned to Tulane and how safe it is now!
Of course this has to be their PR. We have not visited yet, but my son is very interested.
I would think the students are not near where all of the problems are? yes, no?

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Originally posted by TRhit:
New Orleans is no worse than Houston, NYC, LA, Chicago, Detroit or Miami

Trouble can find you anywhere if you put yourself in the wrong position

The dangerous parts of Houston & LA are confined to pretty specific areas. Not so true in NO.

I wouldn't send my kid to NO, NYC or Detroit. Probably couldn't get him to go to Chicago.

219, if I recall properly Tulane is only a mile or two from downtown. And even back in the 80's, you didn't want to be out in downtown after dark.

Check this out very carefully.

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I would think the students are not near where all of the problems are? yes, no?

I'm sure the campus is relatively safe, with well-behaved college students and armed security. The rest of the town is literally a disaster area populated by criminals being chased by crooked incompetent cops, imo. You need to speak with baseballmom. Mrs. Claiborne can fill you in on her sons first hand experience, which hopefully is, and remains, extremely positive. Tulane is recovering. However, NOLA is not a normal college town, where a kid can stumble around at night feeling safe. It is a bad place, simply put in my opinion.

Wow. Thank you for your opinions. I have emailed Mrs. Claiborne. I am very anxious to hear from her about her son's experience.
Tulane officials make it sound as though the students are very safe. We are used to New York and the "big city" and have no real fears about it. You learn to be safe, protect yourself etc. We are not coming from small town experience with those concerns.
This sounds like an entirely different thing.
A little ( a lot) scary.

NYC, Chicago, LA, Houston are big cities with the majority of the city relatively safe and "bad parts" well defined. NO was never a big city like those others. It now has about 200,000 people, down from over a half million within an economic depression by definition, with crime, lack of shelter and basic medical care the biggest probems.

UNO Quality of Life Survey

Understood. But do you think this effects the students on the campus of Tulane? I know the school is in the city but doesn't the school provide security?

Precious few students never step foot off campus. At some point, they will be out in the town. And security can't be everywhere, even on campus.

In the very best case, TU is an island in a sea of tragedy.

I have a very close friend whose daughter just graduated from Tulane. Loved it, even after Katrina. Never had a problem with safety. Can't believe you think NYC is unsafe, greatest city in the world, lived there for 13 years and find it very hard living anywhere else.

baseballmom I emailed you. thanks!

No denying there are crime & corruption issues in the city, just like Houston or Dallas, Chicago, NYC, LA, Miami, etc. Trinity Univ., U. of Houston & Rice all "border" some not so great/dangerous areas of San Antonio & Houston...
Tulane is located in the Garden District(actually adjacent to Audubon & Loyola Univ.)...somewhat similar to Olmos Park (San Antonio), Memorial (Houston), etc...
Freshmen aren't allowed to have cars. Tulane has implemented several transportation plans, just like others campuses.
Ocshner Hospital is within 3-4 miles of campus & yes, there is GREAT health care there & @ Tulane Hospital. There are health care facilities on campus, too.

What I personally do not like is the city at large...the French Quarter, the casinos, Mardi Gras...it's kind of like "Las Vegas of the South"...or so it seems.

But, those things have nothing to do with the University. Son is too busy with classes & baseball to do much "running around". He understands where he is & why he's there. So, I'm not as worried as I once was. A little common sense, heeding the advice of upperclassmen, he's been fine thus far. As with any frosh, it's an eye opening experience. The Team is very close & supportive.

Turchin field was in the process of being renovated prior to Katrina. But, that was washed down the Mississippi, so to speak. So, they started over! Turchin II will be ready in April. Until then, the team plays @ Zephyr. http://tulanegreenwave.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/063006aaa.html

Do you know if Tulane sponsors any camps for prospective recruits in the summer?
They don't have anything listed yet on their website.
Thanks.

Trinity is not in a bad part of S.A. And the vast majority of S.A. is safe. Rice is in an upscale area in Houston (University Heights, Med Center).

UH - you betcha. Bad neighborhood all around the campus.

Info should be posted in a couple weeks...Here's the link:
http://collegebaseballcamps.com/coaches.cfm?CategoryItemKeys=74

Texan,
I'm from SA. lived down the street from St. Mary's Univ, Cincinnatti Ave, Woodlawn Ave,... went to Madison Elem, then Howard Elem in Alamo Heights, too. My mom & a niece are still in SA (North of 410).
Trinity & Tulane could both be considered "inner city", being only a couple miles from downtown. Both are located in historical, older areas. Tulane is adjacent to the Garden District. Trinity, to Olmos. Trinity has Breckenridge Park & SA Zoo within a mile or so and I would definately not be there after dark! Tulane has Audubon Park across the street. The team ran there at 5 am 3 days a week...no incidents...
I never said Trinity was in a "bad" area...I did say, "bordered", ie. Breckenridge, parts of Alamo Heights...
Agree about U of H, but the college is very good! We have friends whose sons' are there playing baeball! I was very impressed with Coach Raynor Noble & Coach Blount.
How 'bout we get back to topic?
Tulane is a fine school with a great baseball program!

Dad04 is correct, and I strongly second his views. Our son was enrolled at Loyola NO, starting Fall 2005. We brought him out the day before Katrina hit. He went back for Spring semester, and is now home. He did not want to return, after getting the tar beat out of him and rolled in the gutter by three thugs in the Quarter during Mardi Gras.

NO is in bad shape, except for the Quarter, the Garden District, and parts of the CBD. The rest of the city - Lower 9th, MidCity, Lakeview, and so forth, are barely functioning. Crime has become a bigger problem than pre-Katrina, the drug gangs are working their way back into town. They are murdering folks on the street, druggies in MidCity as well as tourists in the Fauborg Marigny and the Quarter, and the latter are considered the "good" areas.

The situation is evident to anyone who knew the city prior to Katrina and who has been back since. I've been three times since Katrina and I can tell you that I was very uneasy on the streets anywhere in NOLA, because with tourism down, the thugs have become way more visible as they are not diluted out by white tourists from the North.

Tulane lost its hospital, Charity is gone, LSU lost its hospital. Health care is available, but the city is severely short of beds. Physicians have left and won't be coming back. There is only tourism, and that has not recovered.

Tulane and Loyola are an adjacent island on St. Charles Avenue in the Upper Garden District. However, if you venture north a few blocks, or upriver to Carrolton Avenue, it gets very seedy. Sure, the campuses look nice, but the street situation even there is hit-or-miss. We had a Dad mugged nearly on Loyola's campus in the early evening during Parent's weekend last spring.

I understand Tulane has been a fine institution in the past, but I would no longer recommend it, because of NO. Plus, as a Texan, your son may suffer a vbit of culture shock as Tulane is really more of an "Eastern" university in attitude than "Southern".

Good luck whatever your son decides. I'm very happy mine is out of NOLA.

Tar, what an awful experience for your son and your family. It is such a shame to think about New Orleans and how it is affecting the universities in the area and all of the people in NO.
We are planning to visit if they express interest in our son and we will do our homework concerning all of the upsides and all of the downsides relating to safety. So sorry for your bad experience.

We made an un-official visit last week to Tulane. We were very impressed with the baseball and athletic facilities. Turchin Stadium will not be comleted for this season, so the Green Wave will finish out this season at Zephyr Staduim;(Mets AAA affiliate).
The campus was nice, but smaller than I expected.
First impression is that everything about Tulane is 1st class.
We are very familiar with the criminal climate in and around the New Orleans area, It is not as bad as the national media has been reporting.
We look forward to hearing from them in the future regarding our 2008 player.

(Baseballmom; we sent you a PM)

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First impression is that everything about Tulane is 1st class

I guess you didn't hear them sing the National Anthem and Take me out to the Ballgame.

Lovethegame25 good to hear. We have not been to visit yet but are very interested in Tulane for our '08 too. Did they suggest how your son would be considered, seen etc? Are you going to the Stanford Camp? what other showcases or camps? I know they are going to be at PG Wood Bat Nationals in Georgia. Thank you for the report. We hope to visit in the summer.

Fortunately for us, we live in Louisiana, and son has been getting alot of good press in the local and New Orleans paper.
We are not planning on going to the Stanford Camp, but we will be at the WWBA Nationals in July. He is playing on a summer team that will be attending tournaments throughout the southeast. Good luck and maybe we'll see you in Georgia.

great thanks. Hope to see you in Georgia. What position does your son play?
Did they ask about SATs/grades? Good luck to your son!

My son is a RHP and 1st baseman. Yes, they did ask about GPA and SAT scored, in which we meet their standards. See ya in Georgia.

I can't comment on some of the things posted on here, but I really do not appreciate some of the things you are saying about a city where I have lived for 33 years.

I have not been beaten, robbed, "rolled in the gutters", nor anything like that.

New Orleans is a BIG "small" city. It attracts THOUSANDS of tourists weekly. Becuase of that, bad people use the oppurtunity to take advantage of good people. These people tend to pick on someone that they feel they have the upper hand on. That's why it's always best to travel in groups, especially when making the rounds during Mardi Gras, or any other party time.

I've been throughout the United States, and EVERY city has some kind of problem. Want to know the city with one of the largest population of prescription drug abusers?? Salt Lake City - right in the heart of Mormon country.

Sorry for the rant, but New Orleans is not as bad as some are making it out to be. Take a strong look at any College city, and each has their own issue. Good luck to all of your sons, regardless of where they choose to attend.

Can anyone update the situation at Tulane and in NO in general? They have been contacting son regularly, so we are curious. Thanks for any help.

They just beat no. 2 ranked and arch rival LSU yesterday. Things are much better, now, but still pretty bad in the usual crime ridden areas. Unless your child is into drugs and crime, none of that will affect his safety on or near campus.

Any updates?

They finished 34-25 with a 66 RPI. They were 2 games over .500 in C-USA play. 4th place in the conf tourney. Last year will fade quickly for Wave fans.

CUSA is a tough baseball league. So. Miss was a .500 team and ended up in Omaha, nearly winning it all.

Any new information on what is going on at Tulane?

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Originally posted by TRhit:
New Orleans is no worse than Houston, NYC, LA, Chicago, Detroit or Miami

Trouble can find you anywhere if you put yourself in the wrong position

I've got to call out TRhit on his rather casual remark, even if it was made over 4 years ago. . In terms of metropolitan crime rankings, Detroit is #3, Miami is #23, Chicago is #27, New Orleans is #82, and my home town, New York, is ranked #136.

Whether or not you agree with the NYPD's methodology, there is no denying that New York is virtually in a class by itself when it comes to how safe it is.

If you haven't visited in a while, check it out--the city is doing great.