Tulane head coach Jon Sumrall has described his 2025 version of this Green Wave football team as “gritty and tough.” He went as far as saying, “We’re not pretty. Yet.” That might offend some. Not this team. “We still have that fight in us,” Tulane wide receiver Bryce Bohannon said this week when looking back at the Green Wave come-from-behind wins against South Alabama and Army, and even the loss to Ole Miss in Oxford. “I think those games and that Ole Miss game helped us not want to have that feeling again.” When we asked Bohannon what makes them, as Sumrall described them, gritty and tough, he didn’t even hesitate. “Rusty Whitt,” he said mentioning the Tulane strength and conditioning coach. “He makes us have to be gritty. There’s no practice, no training session that we go through where it’s not going to be gritty. That training (from Whitt) just came out (in those plays that matter).” Tulane defensive coordinator Greg Gasparato agreed. “We’ve got some grit,” coach Gasparato said, “and that starts with Ru
