This is about when Tulane almost always "screws the pooch" 🐕 for a coaching hire; i.e. - in 1980 Hindman Wall says "no" to OC Lindy Infante after 9-3 season and defeating LSU on national television with Infante's offense, and in 1998 Cowen after the undefeated season says "...

All the article said was that Sumrall is interested. The fact he interviewed is the real evidence of his interest.

Everything else is spin and speculation. Him interviewing is the only relevant data from the story.

So, to sum up: rampant speculation takes on the patina of fact, then more speculation is layered on top of that and becomes fact, then everyone extrapolates their grand theory of everything from that. The only thing Guerry’s article did was give the pros and cons of various candidates who interviewe...

In theses days of transfer portal I’m not sure a bonus tied to graduation rate or retention is worth much. Tulane needs a coach that retains who we develop. We aren’t getting 4-5 stars in this league. We can’t develop a Hughes or a Brazzel or a Pratt and lose him after a year or two to the SEC. A b...

Sometimes you come to a fork in the road and the decisions are hard.

This is not one of those times. Do whatever it takes.

(Also hurry up before he reads this forum and learns that it’s actually a crummy dead-end job no decent coach would ever want.)

When talking contracts, buyouts is usual the last thing discussed and reveals the real commitment to stay long-term. Separates from fake commitment to true commitment to the University!!! Exposes the real lack of commitment from the university. Big part of me feels Troy saw the writing on the wall ...

Troy Calhoun won’t excite most. If that’s the best we can do that’s on Tulane. I have my doubts about Calhoun that I’ve documented here, but what are you talking about “excite?” Most fans don’t know much about any potential coaches that don’t come from their school or aren’t SEC coaches. It’s hard ...

We are in a much better place than we were 5 years ago and worlds better than 10 years ago. We weren't even in the discussion then. That's not true. The Big 12 was considering us a little over 10 years ago and gave RD a laundry list of improvements needed for consideration. Our athletic success has...

Jesus this is a dire thread. 1) The SBC has absolutely not passed us in any meaningful and sustainable way. Look at our ratings and look at theirs. Look at our tv time slots and look at theirs. Look at our media revenue and look at theirs. Look at our budgets and look at theirs. Just because they ha...

I actually really like Troy Calhoun and believe he is a great coach. Would be very happy about the hire. Only concern would be the recruiting. Which could turn out to be a real problem. Monken is a definite no and I would be highly pissed if they chose him. Why would recruiting be a problem? He's p...

Another concern I have is what it says about the process. Calhoun is a guy that wins despite some pretty severe handicaps in place at AFA. If Tulane likes that about him because they anticipate Tulane being a “hard place to win” then I don’t love it. There’s nothing about Tulane that should make it ...

My concerns: 1) Even if he is running a modern offense and not the triple option, the one year recruiting hit is going to be brutal at the absolute worst time for our program. Expect mass portal losses. 2) Recruiting the south is going to be a problem. He’s never done it, and Air Force has a very d...

My concerns: 1) Even if he is running a modern offense and not the triple option, the one year recruiting hit is going to be brutal at the absolute worst time for our program. Expect mass portal losses. 2) Recruiting the south is going to be a problem. He’s never done it, and Air Force has a very di...

austxwave wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:58 pm I think you're overreacting. Who says that's the style of offense he would run? He's also got experience in the Shanahan system. Don't you think that would come up in interviews?

It won’t matter. It would be used against us in recruiting. It’s a bad idea.

A service academy coach would be an unmitigated disaster at Tulane. We will never get invited to a P5 playing triple option football. We will not be able to recruit the athletes we need. It also indicates that Tulane higher ups believe that there’s something endemic about Tulane that we have to take...

Surrell pay at Troy is $1 million plus $780K in incentives. How much will he want at TU and will TU pay? The guy is 23-4 as a head coach in 2 years. Was at TU 2012-2014. So he should know what Gibson is like. Well Fritz was around $1.6 and there were talks of going up to around $4mil. With Sumrall'...

I know hertz sells used rental cars, but outside of a pay raise, what can he offer to come here? After Fritz’s comment, why work for an outfit that doesn’t work? I know it doesn’t have to be the way it is, but history shows that they talk bologna. It’s not that Hertz. Also “outside of a pay raise” ...

Pratt could maybe get $1mill in NIL from an extra year of college ball for the right P5. But the situation is so crucial. It’s not a guarantee that it helps your draft stock. It didn’t for Sam Hartman. He could also get hurt, and I don’t know how much you can trust these collectives to follow throug...

Can someone tell me how Fitts keeps his job? Academic rankings drop (USN&WR) and athletics is a cluster (approved a $3 million guaranteed contract with no buyout). I must have missed his fundraising abilities. Anyone? The USN&WR drop is purely due to a metrics shift in their formula — Fitts...

Really, we are at the top of the AAC in Head Coach pay and all we shoot for is a coordinator, I thought those days were over, in this time we need a proven coach, this must be a home run or Tulane Football can go in reverse big time. We need someone that's energizes our current squad and will energ...

Need a statement hire, Patterson, Rodriguez, Sumrall, Candle- in that order. Money should be no object, given what we were offering for retention. Why take any risk, at all, on a coordinator vs sitting head coach. This may be the top open job in the country at this particular moment. It’s 2023. Ric...

All I can say is thank the good Lord winwave, aka gasbag, will have zero role in selecting our next football coach! Says the queen of whining. Glad your horrific choices for AD didn't get the job. Maybe if Gosha was the AD today, Willie might still be here! Your AD choice never was interested in th...

Would be a solid hire. Tulane guy also! https://mutigers.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/blake-baker/2486 The Houston native was a four-year letterman and three-year starter at linebacker for Tulane from 2000-04. In 42 career games, he racked up 145 tackles, 14 tackles for loss and six sacks. He...

Mrs Horton (GBG) in shambles!

DrBox wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:27 pm

Jaxwave wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:31 pm Coen way too high a trajectory to take this job.

LOL.
Good lord.

We have a lot of fans that are addicted to misery.