re: Will Hall to be elevated to head coach of Tulane

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I understand the criticism but Will's HC experience was at USM which is easily among the least resourced schools in the country. That's why Huff was looking to get out immediately.

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USM and Tulane are more similar when it comes to resources than you might imagine. Tulane hired Bob Toledo and then sent him and his team to play Rice on a Greyhound bus. Yeah, they've got a bunch of money in their endowment, but they're hamstrung when it comes to spending it on football, probably by a bunch of faculty senate blue-haired weirdos.

USM doesn't have a big endowment like Tulane, but they don't lean on student athletic fees to the extent most other G5 schools do, and you can see they've got money when you look at how they've built up their physical plant. All that poor-mouthing their athletic department people do really is shameful. They turn right around and brag about how cheap they were all year on their own performance reviews. If Reed Green Coliseum were used by the Department of Social Work instead of the basketball team, it would be a state-of-the-art facility. That's just the mentality there. It's a public school that wants to be Agnes Scott College or Sewanee or something.