EDiot Daniels @ WGNO: “Tulane to Fritz: Shut Up and Coach”

[QuarterbackU]

Ed “Tiger” Daniels hasn’t covered us all year with any consistency because there is nothing to gripe about.

Then he puts out this garbage today:

https://wgno.com/sports/tulane-to-fritz ... =Louisiana

It is clear that he is trying to create a distraction during the biggest week of the season because he doesn’t like Tulane’s place in the National College Football landscape now.

I am asking all of you to make Ed’s experience as unpleasant as possible if you ever see him on Tulane’s campus again and let him personally know you don’t care for him being there.

[WaveProf]

+1

[greenyalie]

He has a point, we ignored Fritz’s choice so in essence that’s what we did. I think it was a very bad decision, but as long suffering Green Wave fan you become accustomed to this stuff. This feels like the Rich Rod snub.

[greenyalie]

“Well, my guess is Fritz is on the clock. It is not a matter of if but when he moves on.

Fritz, I think, was ready to stay if Gosha got the job.”

I am pretty sure Ed is well connected on this and is close to Fritz. We had our chance and blew it. All I can do is stop donating and thats what I will do. Rich Rod the sequel.

[atxwave]

Ed Daniels is a doody stirrer. A clown. Boo hoo! You didn't get what you wanted to let's whine and make claims the coach is going to leave.

[tulaneoutlaw]

How do we know fritz doesn't also like this guy? How do we know fritz isn't planning to leave himself in a couple of weeks even if gosha is the pick? How do we know fritz isn't just trying to pump his friend gosha up ahead of an opportunity for geisha?

Fritz really doesn't strike me as a my way or the highway kind of guy outside of his own program. I think this is much ado about nothing. It's really hard to call this a terrible hire or to label this as passing over rich rod. Rich rods contributions changed an entire sport. Gosha might be great, but I don't think you can say he has had that level of impact. I wasn't against gosha, but this business of saying this is a terrible hire already is silly. And no, if fritz leaves you will not be able to blame this move. You can blame the millions of reasons we won't be able to match in a sport that's structurally flawed.

[1401973]

Not sure why there aren’t 1000 people responding to this stupidity.
This is NOTHING like the RR snub.

[tulaneoutlaw]

“Well, my guess is Fritz is on the clock. It is not a matter of if but when he moves on.

Fritz, I think, was ready to stay if Gosha got the job.”

I am pretty sure Ed is well connected on this and is close to Fritz. We had our chance and blew it. All I can do is stop donating and thats what I will do. Rich Rod the sequel.

If this is the thing that makes you quit donating, you've not been around very long

[QuarterbackU]

Mr. Harris should pull all of WGNO’s media credentials/access as soon as he gets on Campus.

What an awful “welcome” to his new city and workplace by a D-Tier Director of Sports trying to place a giant divide between the most beloved Football Coach in our University’s modern era and the new hire.

As a reminder, Ed Daniels (before you write your next EDitorial about how Tulane fans are being mean like last year), your station’s local news results on the scoreboard are horrendous:

“WVUE goes with a Fox 8 moniker. In October, Fox 8 was No. 1 at 6-7 a.m., in both households and viewers 25-54, with WDSU in second in both races. At 5 p.m., WVUE again won both contests, with WWL the runner-up. On to 6 p.m., where WDSU took both households and the demo, with WWL in second in households, and WVUE second in viewers 25-54. And at 10 p.m, WVUE had a 14.6 rating in households, ahead of WWL’s 11.3, WDSU’s 10.5 and WGNO’s 1.2. In the demo derby, WVUE scored a 9.6 in late news, WDSU a 7.5, WWL a 6.3 and WGNO a 0.9. “

Let’s all make it a point to make sure Mr. Harris (not the UTSA QB) feels welcome on Saturday. I 100% trust President Fitts and if he says that we ride with Mr. Harris - we ride with Mr. Harris from the start.

[long green]

“Well, my guess is Fritz is on the clock. It is not a matter of if but when he moves on.

Fritz, I think, was ready to stay if Gosha got the job.”

I am pretty sure Ed is well connected on this and is close to Fritz. We had our chance and blew it. All I can do is stop donating and thats what I will do. Rich Rod the sequel.

He’s not well connected and he’s not close to Fritz. He hasn’t known what was going on at Tulane for well over a decade.

[nolasilver]

Greenalyie, wtf are you talking about ? I don’t even know where to begin. Fritz is not a diva and openly said it wasn’t his call or job to make the hire. Also how do you know he didn’t sign off on the new hire ? I am sure he was informed and likely consulted on this as well.

Also so if you get someone’s input and then go in another direction that’s telling them to shut up ? That’s the ridiculous rhetoric that has led to our current polarized and vitriolic political climate. That’s not how a business functions.

Also ed doesn’t know doody, and hasn’t had sources at Tulane in forever. When has he broken a story ? If I wanted to tear apart a fan base and an athletic department that sensational and BS Headline is exactly what I would pay someone to write. That’s not a conspiracy (not what I think happened here), but that’s how toxic this headline was.

[atxwave]

What school is going to hire a head football coach who will be 64 the next football season? How does that AD sell it to their fans? How many schools in the P5 will have openings and be willing to make that move? It's going to cost some $$$'s too. Maybe Mississippi or Mississippi State, the former if Kiffin leaves for A&M. It's just very unlikely.

Winning at Tulane is certainly difficult, but not impossible. We finally have an administration and board that sees the value of strong athletics and will invest in it. I don't want to diminish what Coach Fritz has done, but where would we be without Michael Pratt? Where will we be without Michael Pratt next year?

2016 4-8
2017 5-7
2018 6-6 plus a bowl win
2019 6-6 plus a bowl win
2020 6-5 plus a bowl loss
2021 2-10
2022 11-2 plus a bowl win
2023 10-1 to be determined

Certainly these are great heights for Tulane football, but they don't make Coach Fritz the king maker in my opinion. I still think he's a good coach and would hate to lose him, but if we don't, we'll really see what kind of coach he is without a Michael Pratt.

[Man in Green]

I think there are only 2 possibilities here:
1. They ran the new hire by Fritz and he’s ok with it. Why would he not be?
Or, 2. They know Fritz is planning to leave anyway so why should he get to pick the AD.

[waverider]

I think there are only 2 possibilities here:
1. They ran the new hire by Fritz and he’s ok with it. Why would he not be?
Or, 2. They know Fritz is planning to leave anyway so why should he get to pick the AD.

1. I agree. On top of that, does Fritz leave if the new AD is being brought in with the task of getting us in a P5 conference. Fritz might want to be a part of that transition.

2. Even if they don’t know if he may leave, they can’t base the hire on that in case he does leave.

[waverider]

Honest question. If Alabama or Georgia’s AD left, would the boards really let their head football coach hire the next AD like Ed suggests?

[Poseidon]

Honestly I am hoping Kurt Hester gets along with Harris. Moreso than Fritz. As well as the coach after Fritz whenever that is.

[long green]

Honest question. If Alabama or Georgia’s AD left, would the boards really let their head football coach hire the next AD like Ed suggests?

Neither man would need to worry about it.

[Roller]

Honestly I am hoping Kurt Hester gets along with Harris. Moreso than Fritz. As well as the coach after Fritz whenever that is.

I'm predicting that Harris leaves before Fritz.
Has Daniels EVER reported anything favorable to Tulane? (except when we're the darling of the national press and he's too wishy washy to break ranks with the national powers).

[nolasilver]

Agreed roller. He always has this negative, back handed tilt. He obviously had to say positive things last year as you alluded too.

[tumbuuh]

What a miserable, sad, little man

[Charlie Dunn]

This has nothing to do with Fritz. We have to hire the best available candidate. This is a really stupid post. Fritz is head football coach, not the AD or the President. I’m sure Fritz will like this new hire. Fitts loves Fritz and will do whatever we can to keep him.

[tjtlja]

What we know after one day. The fans at Northern Iowa are overwhelmingly overjoyed their AD is moving on. Our great football coach endorsed a guy Tulane passed on. And this is the candidate the national firm came up with. Another UNI AD. Another guy with no history of hiring coaches, no baseball history, and not successful in giving UNI the facilities they need. We will regret not hiring the guy WF wanted. Really unbelievable this is the route we are going.

[nolasilver]

Sorry I trust our search committee and board who actually interviewed the people and spoke to people in the industry more than people online. Furthermore plenty of their fans were pissed on online

[DCGreenie]

I don't live in NOLA, but I have watched Daniels clips on many occasions, and he strikes me as worthy of the plain, old-fashioned zinger of "stupid ass." I honestly don't get how he keeps his job, he is so inept and non-telegenic.

[Bham Wave]

We have to just let all of this play out. So much speculation.

1. If Willie is gone were is he going too?
2. If hiring Gosha would have "kept" Willie here I wonder if he agreed to a larger buy out to make that happen.
3. Gosha is young and has a lot of baggage. He by now means was a slam dunk hire.
4. Willie is 63. He knows how long it took to build a true program here at Tulane. Does he want to start that over again at his age?
5. Willie is 63. How many programs want to start over with a coach that age?

I think Willie has created an outstanding program here at Tulane. I hope he stays but if he thinks he needs another challenge somewhere else then that is what he is going to do. We can pay him well but we don't have unlimited financial resources to compete with the Big Fish if they come after him.

Just like all smaller programs the key to maintaining success is to get the next hire correct and we have not done a good job with this one. Brown to Davis. Bowden to Scelfo. Clark to Finney. Pierce to Jewett.

Enjoy the ride Green Wave Fans. Lets win Friday and get another AAC title next week!!!