re: Potential Tulane opening

I still can't believe they hired will hall.

He's got to be gone after we get blown out by RICE.

Hall’s got to be gone NOW.

It’s clear he has lost the team and they are mailing it in on him. There’s no reason to let this fester unless Tulane is deemphasizing and plans to drop athletics in a few years.

Looks like a situation where everyone in upper university leadership is pointing fingers and refusing to fall on this sword

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But, the clear difference to me seems to be the QB. Mensah two years ago...and finding a guy in Retzaff last year (pretty fortunate) is a huge difference as compared to this year

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Tulane fans gloss over this.

Mensah was 3rd/4th string when Sumrall basically threw up his hands in camp and gave him a shot. Mensah was not a world beater but he was safe with the ball.

Had Retzlaff not decided to be naughty we were going to roll with Sullivan (a temu version of Retzlaff).

Sumralls teams were very sloppy (see his Florida team) and we won because we simply had more talent than other teams. What Sumrall is saying after the Florida games is basically verbatim what he would say after Tulane games (sloppy play gotta get better starts with him blah blah), however these comments came after a victory.

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But it has to find a formula that works.

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Boise St. hasn't really had a problem. Memphis either, although they under-delivered with Silverfield.

Hall never should have been considered unless we were turned down by many coaches. Huff was interested in the job and so was Dawson from Miami.

I think the university didn't want to conduct another search in a year or two so thats why they passed on Huff.

I've said this on here plenty but Tulane should embrace the 'stepping stone' role. Sure hiring a new coach every 1-3 years is annoying but you can use that big pile of cash from winning games to offset that annoyance.

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I agree. Tulane has done great. But it isn’t a birthright. They have done well because they have had very good QB play.

I really don’t know anything about the coach. I remember last year saying they should make a play for the Miami OC.

But it has to find a formula that works. Invest in a QB, rely on ability to find surrounding talent at a higher rate of success than its competition.

If it instead attempts to onlyinvest in a coach (old school thinking) it will fail.

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Sumrall didn't have a good plan at qb last year either, he just lucked into Retzlaff in late July.

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There was some frickery going on at BYU with him.

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Some definite fricking

Ed Ogeron

Hall was such a Tulane of the past hiring it boggles the mind

Tulane of the past would also let him stink for 5 years before doing anything

The time to correct the mistake is now

Was it Wally English or Bernie Ellender who were the worse firings in the weenies history? One or the other had the best record as far as wins / losses before getting fired as their records dropped below suitable-by-weenie-standards. But for pure pissing off the Uptown fans, I'll always respect Vegas Vince.