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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They are built like bomb shelters. They are providing a safe haven.
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This logo embodies our current focus. We said from the beginning that traditional scorecards are out the window as far as Tulane athletics is concerned this year. This is our goal, to get back in the game, to persevere and to accomplish this mission of representing our university and our community.
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A number of schools and athletic directors have stepped up and gone above and beyond more than anything I have experienced. We will never be able to express the amount of appreciation we have.
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This is the first step and a significant event in the healing process for Tulane athletics, our university, our city and those affected in the Gulf South.
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Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.
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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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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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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.
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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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That's beyond the first phase of this, ... We're trying to make certain everyone is in safe harbor.
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These Tulane student-athletes are visiting students at Louisiana Tech and will be held accountable by both institutions for their actions, ... Both institutions set high standards of behavior for their students, and the high expectations and standards of both universities will serve as a guideline for us in dealing with this matter.
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In the end, this is probably the best scenario, to return students to as normal a campus setting and experience as we could.
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The cooperation with all of these schools has been outstanding. We never forget these young men and women were student-athletes, and we did the best job we could in accomplishing this under difficult circumstances. It was something made easier by the way the schools involved accepted our people.