The Tulane Green Wave have done a good job hiring head football coaches lately. In current coach Jon Sumrall, Tulane has a rising star in the profession who turned his back on potential offers from power conference schools to remain in Uptown for a second season and try and build the Green Wave into American Athletic Conference champions for the second time in four years. That’s the standard that Willie Fritz set before he left for the Houston Cougars after the 2023 season. More News: Former Tulane Star Expected To Be Picked in Second Round of NBA Draft Recently, CBS Sports college football writer Shehan Jeyarajah compiled the Top 25 coaching hires in the 21st century. One of the Green Wave’s coaching hires made the list. It was Fritz who came in at No. 20, and you could make the argument that not only did he resurrect Tulane football, but he set the table for Sumrall to take it to the next level. “He took over a program with only one bowl appearance in a decade and quickly turned them into a consistent winn
