(12-08-2025 12:04 PM)Eagle Talon Wrote:  Not sure he has many friends, but somebody ought to check on that guy thewavefan.

He'll be gone for a week or so, and then he'll come back roaring about how Will Hall is going to be amazing and that he can buy any player he wants to. He'll also throw in something about academics for no reason whatsoever.

Either Tulane had very poor back-up plans or Hall really was a mole sent to crash Southern Miss the whole time.

(12-08-2025 12:01 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  Maybe the NIL dollars will help Will Hall... but he's certainly no Jon Sumrall. He doesn't have the same ability to rah-rah the team together and emphasize smash-mouth, physical football like Sumrall could.

Tulane with Hall and Memphis with Huff... Might be a while before the American has another season like this one. USF hire seems very solid, North Texas should be "ok" with Neal Brown, but I have some reservations about that.

(12-08-2025 12:20 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(12-08-2025 12:01 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  Maybe the NIL dollars will help Will Hall... but he's certainly no Jon Sumrall. He doesn't have the same ability to rah-rah the team together and emphasize smash-mouth, physical football like Sumrall could.

Tulane with Hall and Memphis with Huff... Might be a while before the American has another season like this one. USF hire seems very solid, North Texas should be "ok" with Neal Brown, but I have some reservations about that.

A lot of questionable hires by programs that are supposedly trying to peacock strut themselves in front of "power" leagues.

(12-08-2025 11:55 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  Back when Tulane was still in the SEC they wanted to deemphasize athletics. They reduced scholarships and became uncompetitive and left the SEC in 1966. And then today they hired Will Hall, which would feel like a punch to the gut if I was a Tulane fan. Maybe he’ll do better at Tulane, but after their last two hires this is surprising.

They actually came pretty close to dropping to D3 in the late 90s or early 00s.

(12-08-2025 12:17 PM)HarborPointe Wrote:  Either Tulane had very poor back-up plans or Hall really was a mole sent to crash Southern Miss the whole time.

That would just make him awful at being mole too... he beat the team that contracted him

(12-08-2025 12:32 PM)freshtop Wrote:  

(12-08-2025 12:20 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(12-08-2025 12:01 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  Maybe the NIL dollars will help Will Hall... but he's certainly no Jon Sumrall. He doesn't have the same ability to rah-rah the team together and emphasize smash-mouth, physical football like Sumrall could.

Tulane with Hall and Memphis with Huff... Might be a while before the American has another season like this one. USF hire seems very solid, North Texas should be "ok" with Neal Brown, but I have some reservations about that.

A lot of questionable hires by programs that are supposedly trying to peacock strut themselves in front of "power" leagues.

I think this is the reality of people trying to save as much money as possible for the roster.

(12-08-2025 01:28 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(12-08-2025 12:32 PM)freshtop Wrote:  

(12-08-2025 12:20 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(12-08-2025 12:01 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  Maybe the NIL dollars will help Will Hall... but he's certainly no Jon Sumrall. He doesn't have the same ability to rah-rah the team together and emphasize smash-mouth, physical football like Sumrall could.

Tulane with Hall and Memphis with Huff... Might be a while before the American has another season like this one. USF hire seems very solid, North Texas should be "ok" with Neal Brown, but I have some reservations about that.

A lot of questionable hires by programs that are supposedly trying to peacock strut themselves in front of "power" leagues.

I think this is the reality of people trying to save as much money as possible for the roster.

Jimmy's and Joe's and more important than X's and O's but X's and O's still matter enough that I wouldn't be making some of these hires if results were important to me.


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(12-08-2025 11:55 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  Back when Tulane was still in the SEC they wanted to deemphasize athletics. They reduced scholarships and became uncompetitive and left the SEC in 1966.

I can’t remember exactly who said this, but one of the Tulane presidents or other admins. said (this was 1950s) that he was going to “put the athletic department on a diet”. That phrase haunted us for generations.

Frank Gore Jr is out of eligibility, what will Hall do???

On the Tulane boards, the glass-half-full types are saying that Hall will do recruiting and relationships with administrators/ media, etc., and other people will handle in-game play-calling.

Sounds like a disaster in the making but too late now.

(12-08-2025 01:38 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  On the Tulane boards, the glass-half-full types are saying that Hall will do recruiting and relationships with administrators/ media, etc., and other people will handle in-game play-calling.

Sounds like a disaster in the making but too late now.

Troy people thought the same thing about Chip Lindsey...

Hall is just not a good head coach. He may be great as an OC though... sort of like Chip Lindsey. Going from Sumrall, who challenged everyone around him, to Will Hall is going to be night and day.

I will never forget the post-game interview after South Alabama destroyed us on ESPN/2 in which the first thing Hall talked about was injuries in our secondary.

We hadn’t scored a TD in 6 quarters.

It was at that point that I went out of my way to never listen to another thing he said.

It’s just bizarre. Why would they need to save money? They’re about to get 4 million from a playoff appearance. No idea if their conference shares that money though.

Tulane posters not happy about this

I come from a time and place where Memphis was the perennial doormat of our East division and Tulane was the perennial doormat of the West Division. We went 4-0 against Tulane in cross-division conference games, and none of those games were particularly close.

Happy to see those two schools with their new coaches. Collectively, they've hired the last two USM coaches, and there's like 8 total wins at USM between them combined!

(12-08-2025 04:01 PM)CoachMaclid Wrote:  I come from a time and place where Memphis was the perennial doormat of our East division and Tulane was the perennial doormat of the West Division. We went 4-0 against Tulane in cross-division conference games, and none of those games were particularly close.

Happy to see those two schools with their new coaches. Collectively, they've hired the last two USM coaches, and there's like 8 total wins at USM between them combined!

USM
The cradle of coaching...

(12-08-2025 01:38 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  On the Tulane boards, the glass-half-full types are saying that Hall will do recruiting and relationships with administrators/ media, etc., and other people will handle in-game play-calling.

Sounds like a disaster in the making but too late now.

Even the delusional one made me laugh.. All positive and talking about the mighty fan base of Tulane. No offense, I actually like you.

I haven't logged in on this board in ages but the sheer shock of seeing Hall to Tulane got me to return. What on earth.

(12-08-2025 04:26 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(12-08-2025 01:38 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  On the Tulane boards, the glass-half-full types are saying that Hall will do recruiting and relationships with administrators/ media, etc., and other people will handle in-game play-calling.

Sounds like a disaster in the making but too late now.

Even the delusional one made me laugh.. All positive and talking about the mighty fan base of Tulane. No offense, I actually like you.

You know it's bad when even thewavefan is saying he's trying to be positive but can't find way to be excited about it at all.