Other than Jack Abraham, who I cannot get rid from my admin page but should be removed by my Rivals.com handler who returns to the office tomorrow, are there any other known inaccuracies on my updated list of commitments?

By my count, there are 15 known commitments. Is Kwanzi Jackson, who I do not have but 247 does have, still a commitment? I still have Deion Rainey, who confirmed his interest in Tulane after Fritz was hired, and they don't.

Fritz is bringing just about everyone from Georgia Southern. The six coaches confirmed, as first reported by Thayer Evans of SI.com, are defensive coordinator Jack Curtis, who also will coach the safeties, offensive coordinator/QB coach Doug Ruse, OL coach Alex Atkins, DL coach Kevin Peoples, LB coach Michael Mutz and RB coach Dell McGee.

Tulane's Jason Rollins, as reported last week, will remain, and he will coach the cornerbacks.

The only openings left are tight ends and wide receivers, with someone designated as special teams coach.

The three coaches who are not coming along, or at least who have not been announced, are wide receivers coach Matt Barrett, tight ends coach Chad Lunsford and defensive ends coach Johnny Jernigan.

Julie Boudwin is reporting we have a commitment from a Sean Harper. I am not sure whether she has the right Harper. I can not find any thing on a Sean Harper except one who signed last year with Wash State.

Heard some rumors that Mr. Bradwell may be flipping from georgia southern to Tulane...anyone else know?
Here is the link to the geo southern site that I read it on...
http://www.gsufans.com/tsc/forumdisplay.php?8-The-Flight-Line


Godby H.S. In Tallahassee, FL. Keenan Blackmon went to Godby...
Solid offer list Louisiville, Oregon St., USF, usm, etc.

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/3745232/darius-bradwell

http://247sports.com/Player/Darius-Bradwell-78008

I'm hearing that Darius Bradwell, a two-star QB from Tallahassee Godby who had committed to Georgia Southern, has switched to Tulane to follow Fritz and will try to confirm it tomorrow.

Bradwell was offered by Oregon State before his senior year, but they lost interest. He also had an offer from Louisville, but he committed to Kent State before switching to Georgia Southern with no interest by that point from P5 schools. He is listed as an athlete by Rivals and was originally a 3-star recruit who was downgraded to 2 stars.

Whether this turns out to be true or not, and I expect it is true, the days of Tulane pursuing drop-back QBs are over. Regardless of what happens this fall, Fritz' QBs will be runners first and passers second. That doesn't mean they won't throw the ball well, but the first priority will be athletic ability.

School will start up again next week.

1. What’s the story on kids who didn’t make it to school last fall for academic reasons: Darius Williams, Doug Henry, and Darius Black? Are any of them enrolling for this year? Any chance or desire for any of them to return?
   
   
2. What’s the status of Rene Fleury? He was suspended indefinitely early last season and, to the best of my knowledge, never reinstated. Is he still a member of the team?
   
   
3. What’s the latest on our academic casualties? Leondre James dropped out of school vowing to return. Will he? What about Leonard Davis and Edward Williams who “were not on track to graduate” according to CJ? Are they “back on track” and ready to contribute? What about Kenneth Santa Marina and Braynon Edwards? They both sat out the year, losing a year of eligibility I might add, due to academic deficiencies. Are those cleared up or are they gone?
   
   
4. What ever happened to Sergio Medina? He played a lot on special teams as a Freshman, was moved to fullback as a sophomore and still saw some action on special teams and then played nary a down last season, which could count as a redshirt if he’s still around. Is he?
   
   
5. A number of players were not playing by the final game last season including Richard Allen, Eric Bell, Quinton Carroll, Tristan Cooper, Terrence Encalade, Zach Harris, Devon Johnson, Roderick Teamer, Eldrich Washington, and Peter Woullard. Most of these guys were injured and some probably simply didn’t play due the coaches’ decisions. Are the injured all returning? How about the non-contributors?

That’s a lot of guys with question marks.

6. Any others who will be leaving?

7. Does anyone have a “good” list of commitments?

8. How many total does Coach Fritz plan to sign?

Anyway, were a little over a month to signing day and we may still have quite a few holes to fill.
Go get 'em, Coach Fritz.

Roll Wave!!!

Running back coach has flipped from Tulane to the University of Georgia.

Hearing rumors Fritz has flipped 3 star DB Javon Jackson out of Georgia. He is currently a Duke Commit. Anything on this Guerry?

I'm not breaking any news here, but LB Kalia Davis of something called West Florida Tech in Pensacola is Tulane's first commitment for 2017.

I lived in Florida for 21 years and never heard of West Florida Tech, but I also never covered football recruiting there.

He's unrated by Rivals or any other service but Fritz and his staff obviously like him. He had no other offers according to Rivals, but South Carolina was recruiting him.

Happy New Year to all of the Wave Nation ! Looking forward to a very prosperous New Year w/the Wave !

Tulane opens its AAC schedule at Memphis on Tuesday after an unimpressive 7-6 non-conference performance that included zero victories against teams currently ranked in the top 200 according to RealTimeRPI.com, a bad loss to Alabama A&M and some ugly wins against UNO and Drake.

Only twice, against Appalachian State--when Tulane took a 40-8 lead, which is hard to do against air--and in the last 25 minutes against Stephen F. Austen, has Tulane looked good, but the upside is higher than in Ed Conroy's first five years. The problem is in realizing that potential.

Here's my assessment of each scholarship player heading into the Memphis game, starting with the backcourt and proceeding to the frontcourt.

1) Louis Dabney

For most of November and December, he appeared to show little of the trust in his teammates he boasted about before the year started. He forced too many shots as if he did not believe anyone else could get the job done. But in the last two weeks, he calmed down and began letting the game come to him. He needs to continue playing that way because Tulane cannot win with him shooting below 40 percent, and he is not good enough to score consistently against defenses geared to stop him. But he is good enough to do damage if he gets some help from teammates and does not have to carry the burden of trying to score for 40 minutes.

2) Malik Morgan

I'm not crazy about his outside shot, which his mother called "beautiful" in a story I wrote about him and his sister for The Advocate last December. His release point is too high and too late. But he has a knack for the game. At Mississippi State, he scored two baskets in a row by tipping the rebound off the glass and in, and neither was accidental. He can score in a lot of different ways and is crafty. Look for him to play two guard a lot more the rest of the way because he's just not a reliable point guard, going out of control on the dribble too often. He can excel in a role as a scorer and is a good rebounder for his position. Defensively, he gets his hands on a lot of balls but needs to be more judicious. Foul trouble has been an issue, and he has to stay on the floor.

3) Von Julien

Even though did not make a shot in the two games after becoming the starting point guard, he needs to remain the starter because he is the only natural point guard on the roster. He can penetrate and find open players and also is better than Morgan at handling pressure even though he is a freshman. But if he does not develop some scoring ability, Tulane will be in trouble. The coaches have to trust that he will improve as he gets more experience.

4) Kajon Mack

Since coming back from a knee injury, Mack has been better than I anticipated as a backup point guard. Tulane can use his athletic ability and defense. The question always has been whether he could provide anything on offense, and his three assists and zero turnovers in four minutes of first-half action against Southern Miss was encouraging. He will get healthier as the year goes along, and he looks more comfortable than he has in the past.

5) Cameron Reynolds

At some point, he needs to start knocking down some shots because he would be a big attribute if he could. His size and athletic ability make him a valuable defender, but that value is negated when he cannot score. His shooting percentage of .315 is woeful, and it's not because he gets bad looks. Maybe being a regular part of the rotation will help him gain some confidence in his offense. It better. He has the tools.

6) Kain Harris

Harris is Tulane's most reliable freshman, which is not saying much to this point, and the Wave's best outside shooter. Still, he needs to prove he can consistently knock down open 3s. It's hard to win in modern college basketball without the threat of the 3, and no one on the roster scares opponents from behind the arc. Good players improve as they gain experience. The Wave needs Harris to follow that path.

7) Melvin Frazier

Tulane's most hyped freshman has been ineffective, beginning the year as a starter but falling out of the lineup because he's shown nothing other than raw athletic ability. He's not a good ball-handler, passer or shooter, averaging a paltry 5.1 points with 15 turnovers and five assists. He's also horrendous from the foul line. Maybe the light will go on, but he has a long way to go. At this point, he is effective only as the finisher on the fast break.

8) Dylan Osetkowski

He showed promise as a freshman, and it's been no surprise that he has improved dramatically as sophomore. He had all the intangibles that indicated steady growth. Osetkowski will struggle to score when he catches the ball on the post against athletic AAC defenders because he is not a good jumper, but he has outstanding feel for the game, is a superb passer and tough rebounder. With Tulane possessing more options offensively than it did last year, look for him have more games like his 20-point day against Mississippi State.

9) Jernard Jarreau

He's a terrific passer, too, giving Tulane so much more ability on the inside than it ever has had under Conroy. The concern with him is his health. Injuries derailed his career at Washington, and although he has made some athletic plays, giving Tulane a defensive presence on the interior it has lacked for awhile, he looks slow at times during games, too. If Jarreau maintains the level he showed in the non-conference play, he will help the Wave significantly. The one concern is his tendency to hang his head when plays don't go well. That moodiness needs to stop pronto. He also should be a better free throw shooter than his .541 percentage attests. He has good form.

10) Blake Paul

Paul gives Tulane a shot-blocking presence off the bench. Although he looks very much like a freshman offensively, he has the upside to contribute this year. We'll see if it happens.

11) Ryan Smith

The coaching staff loves Smith because of his work ethic. The problem is his limited game. When he is on the floor--and his time has decreased as the year goes along--Tulane essentially is playing 4 on 5 offensively.

12) Taron Oliver

This guy is gifted offensively, possessing nice touch and a variety of shots. He also is no factor because of his weight and likely won't be this year. It's a shame. If he works as hard as everyone around him insists he has done since he arrived on campus, he can be a significant factor in the future.

I just texted Jason Rollins, and he said he had not heard from Fritz yet.

Interestingly, Fritz retained Georgia Southern's defensive coordinator, Jack Curtis, when he arrived in Statesboro. Curtis had been on the staff of Jeff Monken since 2011, and he came to Ga Southern from Central Missouri, Fritz' old stomping grounds.

Fritz' offensive coordinator, Doug Ruse, has been with him for four years. Although those years were run-centric, Ruse coached a prolific passer in his previous stop at Western Illinois, Matt Barr, the runner-up for the Walter Payton award in 2010. He spent eight years before that as offensive coordinator at Arkansas State, where the pass offense never finished higher than 69th and Arkansas State never won more than six games.

The other assistants don't stand out one way or the other.

Double post. Internet issues in Denver.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/spo...30-e807-4aa5-e053-0100007f6815-363686261.html

It's interesting to get the perspective from the other side about Tulane's win at Memphis a year ago. The angle is about how the loss sent the Tigers into a tailspin, with some good quotes. Tulane actually looked like the better team that day, with Jonathan Stark's 24-point performance prompting me to tweet he was better than Ricky Tarrant (definitely in the top five of tweets I regret).

Tulane will get a firsthand look at Tarrant tomorrow. He is scoring well, but his shooting has been abysmal. Take out a hot night in a loss to Ole Miss, and he is 26 for 88 from the floor and 9 for 40 from 3-point range.

This does not appear to be a good matchup for Tulane. Memphis has two athletic shot blockers in Shaq Goodwin (eight blocks in the last two games) and four-star freshman Dedric Lawson (10 blocks in the last three), and the Wave's best route to victory usually involves getting the ball inside to Osetkowski and Jarreau, neither of whom has been effective getting his shot off against athletic big men.

Tulane will need big games from Dabney and Morgan, and someone needs to get hot from 3-point range.

Memphis has gotten bad press this year, and it may be deserved, but the Tigers' three losses were to Oklahoma, Ole Miss and UT Arlington, three times with a combined record of 30-4. Before you dismiss UT Arlington, that team also beat Ohio State and took Texas to OT. This would be by far Tulane's best win of the year and by far Memphis' worst loss.

NM

We’re all wondering exactly what kind of offense Coach Fritz will bring to the table at Tulane. He’s indicated he won’t be using the triple option, but it’s hard for me to believe that he will “junk” the various sets, nomenclature, and much of the playbook he had at Georgia Southern. I would guess he will keep much of that while putting greater emphasis on the passing game. Having now reviewed a lot of tape from his years at Sam Houston, I am now even more convinced.

At Georgia Southern he operated out of a spread formation and ran the ball 82% of the time over his two years there. He averaged just under 12 pass attempts per game. During his four years at Sam Houston, he operated out of virtually identical sets but only ran the ball 68% of the time. He passed an average of 22 times per game. By comparison, Tulane ran the ball roughly half of the time last year (49.6%) and threw the ball almost 34 times per game. Game situations (being ahead or behind, for example) might explain some of those statistics but they are probably illustrative of intent. For interest, the four teams in the national championship playoffs, Clemson, Alabama, Michigan State, and Oklahoma ran the ball respectively 56.5%, 59.0%, 56.7%, and 57.7% of the time.

From my observations, the multiple formations Coach Fritz used at his last two schools were very similar and I can’t believe they will change significantly when he comes to Tulane. At both schools he operated out of various formations but never, from what I’ve seen, from under center. And his teams virtually never (maybe never) huddled. The multiple formations and even the degree of spread and the positioning of the running backs were almost identical. The one difference I noticed was at SHSU he employed the tight end more often, lining him up next to a tackle on most plays whereas, at GSU, when a tight end was in the game, he was generally positioned in the backfield or spread wide. The tight ends caught 39 passes in his last two years at SHSU for 497 yards and 11 TD’s, pretty respectable efficiency. At GSU, they caught fewer than five passes over two years. I’d guess our tight ends will be employed more like at SHSU, but who knows? Our current tight ends tend to be more pass receivers than blockers.

In both places, most of the passing offense was executed off of play fakes and most QB runs were off of option plays. Even when the running backs carried the ball, the QB was involved, continuing to simulate carrying the ball himself to draw off defenders.

Fritz’s primary QB at SHSU was a better passer than he had at GSU but not near the runner. Frankly, he reminded me a little of Tanner Lee, though he wasn't as big. He didn’t seem to have near the arm and, though he may have been a little better runner, the difference, if any, was small. Regardless, he rushed over 200 times in his last two years while passing 629 times. In both of those years Coach Fritz had a “running QB” who spelled the starter fairly often. In one year, it was a WR who essentially ran a “wildcat,” rushing over 100 times and passing only five. I would not be surprised at all if Coach Fritz employs a similar “game plan” using multiple QB’s at Tulane depending on his personnel.

As an aside, having nothing to do with the offense, I noticed that punt formations at the two schools were identical even to the choreographed rugby style kicks. Since our punters seem to have trouble holding on to the ball, I don’t know if running with it to punt would work very well.

Anyway, the sign of a good coach is putting his players in the best position to win. I think Coach Fritz’s offense will adapt to the players he has. While it might look the same with Tanner Lee at QB as it would with, say, Lyndsey Scott at QB, the ratio of runs to passes and how much the running game depends on the QB would be vastly different. He showed that at SHSU with his multiple QB system.

Regardless, if you’d like to view some of what went on at Sam Houston, I’d recommend a short highlight of their Spring game in 2013. It runs about three minutes and gives a little feel for their offensive sets as well as a short one-on-one drill at the end.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sam+houston+state+football+2013&view=detail&mid=1454377B4C5464437B791454377B4C5464437B79&FORM=VIRE8

If you’d like to delve into the issue deeper, several game-highlights from 2012 and 2013 are available on you tube. And, if you’re really a glutton for punishment, the entire game against Stephen F. Austin from 2013 (SHSU won 54-49, so it’s wild) is linked below:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sam+houston+state+football+2013&view=detail&&mid=99999EF98F0A8DC0E26399999EF98F0A8DC0E263

Roll Wave!!

Made the Alabama 7A All State First Team as an Athlete.

Congrats!!!

New to this site however I have been a big football board guy on the other schools site I have always been a Gator and Louisville fan but now Tulane is number one .I am looking forward to the news and info on this board while Coach Fritz take this program to new heights . There should be plenty of news coming out this week. Go Wave!

Looking forward to a very merry and joyous New Year for all of us die-hard Wave fans!

And the differences between the two teams was even greater than the score. Regardless of whether or not the outgoing coaches' absence was a factor, I'm very grateful that we hired Fritz. Bowling Green were embarrassed tonight and they didn't belong on the same field as GSU.

So encouraged by what I saw tonight. We're in good hands going forward and this is such a new and different experience for me as a Tulane fan that it almost feels wrong to be so encouraged.

This has been out there for a while, but I did confirm last week that Brandon Godfrey is transferring to Nicholls State.

I have not confirmed any other transfers.

Just got it confirmed.

Jason Rollins wil remain on Tulane's staff with his third head coach after being hired by Bob Toledo and being retained by CJ. I had heard reliable word that no one was going to be retained by Fritz, but either that info was wrong or there was a change of heart.

I for one think it is a good choice to retain Rollins. He has a great relationship with local coaches and is easy to work with, so he can fit in with any type of coaching staff. I also think his coaching skills are underrated. I watched practice closely this year, and even though his position guys had a rough year, the defense responded well to him as co-coordinator. He is extremely popular with a wide variety of players. I know Sam Scofield thought he was great.

Look for an announcement of most of the rest of the staff after Georgia Southern plays in the GoDaddy Bowl tomorrow, most likely on Thursday.

It's P.J. Hall, a 3-star cornerback from Hoover in Alabama.

He has offers from Memphis, Cincinnati and Mississippi State among others. Just like a lot of Fritz' Georgia Southern recruits, he has better offers than most of the players in the CJ era.

The report on him is he doesn't have great size, but he makes up for it with speed, strength and natural cover skills.

Hoover lost to Spain Park in the quarterfinals of the state playoffs this year, stopping a streak of three straight state championships. Hall has started since he was a sophomore.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-P.J.-Hall-161754

My D-line coach at Tulane, and one of the great position coaches ever, Thilen Smith was hired at Marshal. Great coach, better man, who taught me a lot about football and life. That is all...