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I may have been a little strong in my suggested statement, but I still think a more forceful endorsement of WF and hope for his future at Tulane was called for. The pablum he put out didn't suggest in any way that Tulane would fight to keep him. A strong public statement would have been a shot acro...

I may have been a little strong in my suggested statement, but I still think a more forceful endorsement of WF and hope for his future at Tulane was called for. The pablum he put out didn't suggest in any way that Tulane would fight to keep him. A strong public statement would have been a shot acros...

Harris said he anticipated the WF question. If that is right, he should have been ready to say: "I see Coach Fritz out there today, and I want to tell him something in front of all of you. We know you are a great coach and a great credit to Tulane University and to Tulane Football. What you hav...

I hope it’s not an empty suite.

My take was that he gave canned safe comments on everything. I was hoping he would show some personality and fire. No promises but put up some lofty goals. Sorry but he sounded like a politician trying not to make a mistake or antagonize or offend anyone. Pure PC. Hopeful but not impressed

Given that Tulane may become sort of a media "giant killer" persona and we brought 30k to Cotton Bowl, are there other bowls that might pick us if we don't get Fiesta or Peach? They could get a lot of hype for their bowl from the national media.

Yep but still good memories.

I think he is creating his own style. Hopefully we’ll be saying future backs are “Hughes-esque” 10 years from now. What will endure (so far): -Durability. thanks Poseidon. This is a key feature of his that I’ve taken for granted. As a RB this is huge and rare. He got submarined on one run today and...

QuarterbackU wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:22 pm If we lose by 4 or less, I’ll have a little asterisk next to us not taking one quick throw chance with Pratt (Senior) on the 5 yard line with ten seconds left and 3rd & 1.

The clock was starting after penalty so we called a timeout to give time to fg. Good call get points.

I was happy with most of play calling yesterday. He had Hughes going off left side rather than right all the time. He threw a swing pass to Hughes for a key first down. He called at least one jet sweep and several check down passes over the middle. Add to that the halfback pass and you could see our...

My daughter just went through a similar situation. She was an "interim" CEO at a national non-profit. The charity hired a national search firm to find a permanent CEO and received over 100 applications. In the end, they opted to take her as CEO, the inside person. She said she understood w...

Since the Oline was banged up and we never called a running play for Pratt (since he is not 100%), Tulsa figured that out and put linebackers on the edge so we couldn't run the sweep and they dared us to throw. They just keyed on the RB every play. Plus, our two best receivers were out, so guys were...

If you get The Athletic, you will find the great story about the failure of assistant coaches from Bill Belichick. In the story, it talks about how he changes his defense based on the strength of the other team. It is more complicated than that, but that is the basic idea. The whole story is good. I...

Here is the plan...on first down, load up on Tulane right side for the run, crashing the linebacker, keying on #21. Dline slants left. On second down, do the opposite to the other side. On third down, blitz with two linebackers, and weak side corner. Man to man in secondary. Have a linebacker spy on...

Marathon Wave wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:44 am Just posting FYI only.


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Good for him!!!!

For red zone I'd like to see fewer fades and more I formation running and/or play action. this Love the fake to Hughes and Pratt roll out and tosses short pass to Bauman. I think we've scored on that play 3 times this year. Yes and if the db goes with TE then Pratt runs it in. Very difficult to def...

As much as I wanted us to score at the end, I approved WF strategy to run the clock. Tulane has had too many last second losses (remember the Army Hail Mary) for us to take a chance on a fumble. I also think we need to give credit to Pratt, the offense, and Nagle for that last drive which used up t...

tulaneoutlaw wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:37 am Apparently fritz also said the clock operator screwed up and that there should not have been any time left on the clock based on when the first down was converted

He was right! I was screaming for the clock to start with 56 seconds left and it never did.

tulaneoutlaw wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:37 am Apparently fritz also said the clock operator screwed up and that there should not have been any time left on the clock based on when the first down was converted

Yes, I was screaming! We ran two plays with 56 seconds on the clock and it never started.

As much as I wanted us to score at the end, I approved WF strategy to run the clock. Tulane has had too many last second losses (remember the Army Hail Mary) for us to take a chance on a fumble. I also think we need to give credit to Pratt, the offense, and Nagle for that last drive which used up th...

Oh brother.

DC I get it. How many games did we listen to through the static while in DC. When you heard Bruce Miller say “oh brother “, you knew we had just blown it. I still get scared every game.

If you need to get fired up for this game, just go back and watch the last four minutes of the Cotton Bowl again. I just did and I am ready to dress out!

Really? Try no wins worth mentioning 1960-66 in old Tulane stadium, when opposing teams threaten our goal line early and often, the few students would stand up and cheer the opposing team to score. Ask Cheerleader if I am making it up. You are not making it up! And I was on the field leading the ch...