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...
chance conference gave lost plan remarkable
The conference gave us a chance to put a plan together. It's remarkable we haven't lost anything yet.
athletics cannot carry coaches culture erased given ours rich role shared university valuable vibrant
I have shared with our coaches that Tulane athletics has been given a role and a mission, ... We have to carry the message, to Tulanians especially, but also to the whole country, that an institution as valuable as a 170-year-old university and a culture as rich and vibrant as ours in New Orleans, will not and cannot be erased by this disaster.
country reality realization
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.