I had to take my son to the dentist this morning and then back to school, so I missed all but the last few minutes of practice. I know this much: Jonathan Banks practiced. He cramped up against Memphis but did not have any other injury--you could see him trying to flex his heel while he could not put it flat on the ground before calling a timeout and then exiting--and he will start against Cincinnati unless something happens later this week.
I don't have time for anything else right now because my whole schedule has been delayed, but I will have quotes from Fritz. Teamer, Sample and Patrick Johnson later.
I did some research on Tulane and the road last night, and the numbers are astounding. Since the start of the 1991 season, the Wave has won three games away from home against teams that finished with winning records. Fritz and company inherited a program with an almost unparalleled legacy of losing for a long time, and changing that culture takes time. I think it happened against Memphis, but we'll have to wait and see.
Tulane won at Cincinnati to open 1996, and the Bearcats turned out to be an above .500 team. Tulane won at Hawaii in the 2002 Hawaii Bowl, which was played in the Rainbows' home stadium. Tulane won at Houston in 2014 in a true outlier for the CJ era. And that's it. The 1998 team would have done it, but it did not play a road game against a team that finished above .500.
Unless Cincy loses to Tulane and goes into the tank, the 5-0 Bearcats will finish above .500. So will Houston and USF, so this is truly a season in which the Wave can make history. The last time it beat two teams on the road that finished above .500 was 1975 (Boston College and West Virginia). Starting with the 1970 season that ended in Tulane's second-to-last bowl victory against Colorado, the Wave has won 12 times on the road against teams that finished above .500, and half of them were in the 1970s.
Regardless of whether Cincy is good or not, a win Saturday could alter the program.
I don't have time for anything else right now because my whole schedule has been delayed, but I will have quotes from Fritz. Teamer, Sample and Patrick Johnson later.
I did some research on Tulane and the road last night, and the numbers are astounding. Since the start of the 1991 season, the Wave has won three games away from home against teams that finished with winning records. Fritz and company inherited a program with an almost unparalleled legacy of losing for a long time, and changing that culture takes time. I think it happened against Memphis, but we'll have to wait and see.
Tulane won at Cincinnati to open 1996, and the Bearcats turned out to be an above .500 team. Tulane won at Hawaii in the 2002 Hawaii Bowl, which was played in the Rainbows' home stadium. Tulane won at Houston in 2014 in a true outlier for the CJ era. And that's it. The 1998 team would have done it, but it did not play a road game against a team that finished above .500.
Unless Cincy loses to Tulane and goes into the tank, the 5-0 Bearcats will finish above .500. So will Houston and USF, so this is truly a season in which the Wave can make history. The last time it beat two teams on the road that finished above .500 was 1975 (Boston College and West Virginia). Starting with the 1970 season that ended in Tulane's second-to-last bowl victory against Colorado, the Wave has won 12 times on the road against teams that finished above .500, and half of them were in the 1970s.
Regardless of whether Cincy is good or not, a win Saturday could alter the program.
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