Rick Dickson
Rick Dickson
Rick Dickson is the athletic director at Tulane University. Since taking over in 2000, Tulane teams have won nine Conference USA Championships. They have advanced to NCAA postseason play 15 times. Tulane advanced to the College World Series in 2001 and 2005...
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We have tried to create a stable environment. There were tough circumstances in Jackson. Here we knew we would have the (Conference USA) conference office that could communicate for us. (Wednesday) we struggled just to communicate with people without land lines. The (conference) was able to pro-actively set things up for us.
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Our preference is to first identify a home away from home venue for our football team. The possibilities, there are more than a handful right now. We haven't weighed in on any of them at this point, and we haven't ruled any of them out.
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Our first preference is to first identify a home away from home venue for our football team.
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Our community needs hope. Our student-athletes represent hope for them. They will carry the torch and be the face, and display the name of Tulane University and the New Orleans community until we are able to come home and do that on our own campus.
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Logistics have not even been tackled. The first priority between now and next week is to make a decision of where to place the team and to get them in class.
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We've played homecoming games there, ... so it would have to be explored. Much would depend on how it came out of the flooding.
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What we're trying to accomplish in all of this is, when possible, we'd like to play in-state, around our fans. And we look at where the opponents are and see which site makes sense, because there is also a financial aspect in all of this.
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Unfortunately, we have a lot of experience in dealing with these situations.
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We're going to line up some professionals -- counselors. The reality is just setting in for all of us. We didn't have the benefit of looking from the outside in. They're still absorbing everything that did happen. There will finally be some realization of what happened -- as it's been described to us, the worst disaster in our country's history.
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Until 4 p.m. on Friday, ... we didn't know the answer if we could compete in our sports programs.
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Until we get a sense of what the next step is, I really think this is a good outpost for us as far in terms of stability and trying to maintain some normalcy.
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We're still absorbing everything that did happen. The worst national disaster in our country's history, and you're part of it.
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We want to represent Tulane everywhere; our goal is to give hope to everyone, ... If we do that, and do it with dignity and serve the greater purpose, it'd be the greatest victory any of us had ever been a part of.
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We're pleased that our Green Wave teams will be able to continue to compete and proudly represent Tulane University and the city of New Orleans during the fall semester. We have received a tremendous amount of support already from our Conference USA family and from athletics programs around the country. This collaborative effort to put Tulane University teams on the fields of play this fall is unprecedented.