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<blockquote data-quote="InsideLB" data-source="post: 852037" data-attributes="member: 857"><p>Like everyone else I have no idea how OC Chip Long will work out.</p><p></p><p>On paper at least there some things that suggest he is a decent fit for GT:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Has experience at schools where academics are important (ND, Tulane).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Has a reputation as a good recruiter</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RPO-based scheme will not require a radical shift to something different/going back to square one on offense</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Has P5 coordinator experience / success at P5 level</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Has co-ordinated some very good offenses in the past.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Like that he has coached TE. Hopefully we can have more depth and better overall performance out of this position going forward.</li> </ul><p></p><p>The article pasted below is a non-paywall post-mortem of Tulane’s 2021 season. For those who don’t want to read their defense was terrible, their OL couldn’t protect the QB, and they had terrible FG kicking. I read another article where Fritz seemed at wit’s end regarding untimely procedure penalties at key times. Fritz said they simplified the snap count as much as humanly possible and drilled it and OL kept having procedure penalties despite this. Hurricane may have messed with them some too.</p><p></p><p>My guess is that GT’s offensive line will have to develop more viable players / add players through the portal / be luckier with injuries next year for the offense to be much better than it was this year. Losing K. Kirby, A. Smith, K. Cooper, R. Johnson at guard (to fill in for J. Williams at T) this year really hurt us. At least P. Vaipulu got some good experience as did Weston Franklin. It would be helpful if Sims could stay healthy.</p><p></p><p>I don’t think Key forgot how to coach OL since leaving Bama, but I do think it’s taken longer longer to get OL recruiting going than we’d like. It seems we have either missed on some of the early OL we got, or they are just taking a long time develop, or Key isn’t great at developing lesser type recruits into good OL.</p><h3>From the Basement | What went wrong with Tulane football?</h3><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/staff_name/mark-keplinger/" target="_blank">Mark Keplinger</a>, Sports Editor</p><p>December 1, 2021</p><p><img src="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DSC_3165-475x317.jpg" alt="Tulane football" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Willie Fritz looks to rebound after a disappointing season. (Parker Waters)</p><p>In short, everything. Both on and off the field, Tulane University football was plagued with issues and challenges that it needed to face. Analyzing both off and on the field issues will help illuminate why Tulane football went from being an early season contender in the American Athletic Conference, to being the doormat of the conference.</p><p>Off the field, the biggest challenge facing the team was the same challenge that Tulane University and the city of New Orleans faced: <a href="https://www.si.com/college/2021/09/01/tulane-evacuation-hurricane-ida-oklahoma" target="_blank">Hurricane Ida</a>. Tulane athletics evacuated the team to Birmingham, Alabama to continue to prepare for the coming season. </p><p>The Green Wave showed great resilience in their first two games of the year, with a close loss in a hard fought game <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/56978/sports/oklahoma-fends-off-late-tulane-comeback-in-season-opener/" target="_blank">against the Oklahoma Sooners</a>, then the second ranked team in the nation. Tulane then <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57010/sports/green-wave-dominates-morgan-state-looks-forward-to-ole-miss/" target="_blank">rolled over Morgan State</a> for its first win of the season. Both of these games were originally supposed to be played in New Orleans, and were instead played in Norman, Oklahoma and Birmingham, Alabama respectively.</p><p>However, the biggest culprit to Tulane’s demise this season was, unsurprisingly, its defense. Time and again, the defense was ripped apart, giving up<a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57172/sports/tulane-football-falls-to-ole-miss-returns-to-yulman-saturday-to-face-uab/" target="_blank"> 61 to the Ole Miss Rebels</a>, <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57388/sports/tulane-struggles-as-they-face-upset-from-east-carolina/" target="_blank">52 to the East Carolina Pirates</a>, <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57422/sports/tulane-football-falls-to-houston-in-fourth-straight-loss/" target="_blank">40 to the Houston Cougars</a> and <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57780/sports/tulane-football-continues-disappointing-season-vs-smu/" target="_blank">55 to the SMU Mustangs</a>.</p><p>In terms of points allowed per game, Tulane were 15th worst out of 130 schools, <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2021.html" target="_blank">giving up 34 points per game</a>. In comparison, during the 2020 season, Tulane had a middle of the pack defense, <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2020.html" target="_blank">ranked 57th best and giving up 28.1 points per game</a>.</p><p>Tulane sought to play an aggressive style of defense this season. This showed in many positive ways, as the hard hitting Green Wave forced <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2021.html" target="_blank">16 turnovers</a> and <a href="https://www.foxsports.com/college-football/tulane-green-wave-team-summary-stats?season=2021&category=defense" target="_blank">sacked the quarterback 34 times</a>. This is similar to last season’s unit, which had <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2020.html" target="_blank">17 turnovers</a> and <a href="https://www.foxsports.com/college-football/tulane-green-wave-team-summary-stats?season=2020&category=defense" target="_blank">37 sacks</a>. So, where was the problem?</p><p>The Green Wave gave up too many big plays and too many yards each game. Opposing teams averaged over 400 yards a game, an abysmal number from Tulane’s defense. The worst pummeling came from the Ole Miss game, where the star studded Rebels had a<a href="https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2021/11/29/22806304/tulane-green-wave-2021-season-recap-analysis-michael-pratt-willie-fritz-aac" target="_blank"> staggering 707 yards of offense</a>.</p><p>Two games later, Tulane’s defense hit their low point against East Carolina. The Pirates had 612 yards of offense, with <a href="https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2021/11/29/22806304/tulane-green-wave-2021-season-recap-analysis-michael-pratt-willie-fritz-aac" target="_blank">222 of those yards coming from their running back Keaton Mitchell</a>.</p><p>Offensively, the Green Wave looked to quarterback Michael Pratt to lead them. Last season, Pratt <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FnIdCAdug2IuCuwUW_SnCz-wzT2L7GeG6zlVzGwLUrs/edit" target="_blank">proved to be a capable signal caller</a>, throwing for 20 touchdowns, rushing for eight more and throwing only eight interceptions. He was also incredibly tough, as Pratt was sacked 33 times in 10 games.</p><p>This season started <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/gamelog/_/id/4685039/type/college/year/2021" target="_blank">as more of the same for Pratt</a>. In his first three games, Pratt threw for seven touchdowns, ran for one more, threw no interceptions and was sacked six times.</p><p>Unfortunately, the season turned on its head as he had bad games against University of Alabama Birmingham, East Carolina and Houston. His offensive line did him no favors either this season, as he was sacked 27 times in 11 games. It’s better than last season, but it is still not good. Against Houston, Pratt was sacked eight times.</p><p>Against SMU, Pratt took a <a href="https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2021/11/29/22806304/tulane-green-wave-2021-season-recap-analysis-michael-pratt-willie-fritz-aac" target="_blank">vicious late hit after a slide</a>, which injured him and forced him to sit out <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57873/sports/green-wave-falls-to-cincinnati-eliminated-from-bowl-game-contention/" target="_blank">against Cincinnati</a>. With the backup quarterback Justin Ibieta already out with injury, freshman Kai Horton was forced to step up. Horton deputized admirably, but Tulane’s offense clearly lacked the dynamism that Pratt provides.</p><p></p><p>Pratt struggled initially after returning from injury. He did not look his normal electric self in the losses to <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57942/sports/tulane-football-falls-to-ucf-in-seventh-consecutive-loss-eighth-overall/" target="_blank">University of Central F</a>lorida and University of <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/58187/sports/green-wave-football-falls-to-tulsa-despite-late-heroics/" target="_blank">Tulsa</a>, as he struggled to move the offense in both games. He did show off his incredible talent when the Green Wave dismantled University of South Florida, but finished out the season on a pedestrian note in the loss to Memphis.</p><p>From a coaching perspective, the team made many mistakes, and often seemed to not be able to play a full four quarters of football. Tulane’s season was filled with untimely fumbles, such as the <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/56978/sports/oklahoma-fends-off-late-tulane-comeback-in-season-opener/" target="_blank">several instances lost against Oklahoma</a>, or undisciplined play, from the <a href="https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/penalties-per-game" target="_blank">penalties Tulane committed</a>, to <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57172/sports/tulane-football-falls-to-ole-miss-returns-to-yulman-saturday-to-face-uab/" target="_blank">Dorian Williams ejection against Ole Miss</a> and the several unnecessary roughness penalties <a href="https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57873/sports/green-wave-falls-to-cincinnati-eliminated-from-bowl-game-contention/" target="_blank">against the University of Cincinnati</a>. Penalties, in particular, are an area that need to be cleaned up, as Tulane <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2021.html" target="_blank">averaged six a game</a> for 51.1 yards.</p><p>Things are not all bleak in uptown New Orleans, however. The defense did improve over the course of the season. They were able to keep the high powered UCF offense quiet, and kept Tulane in the games against Tulsa, Cincinnati and Memphis.</p><p>Offensively, Pratt is still a highly talented quarterback. Bad seasons happen to good players, and Pratt has shown over his two seasons that he has what it takes to be a great quarterback.</p><p>Willie Fritz <a href="https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2021/11/29/22806304/tulane-green-wave-2021-season-recap-analysis-michael-pratt-willie-fritz-aac" target="_blank">will remain head coach of Tulane until 2026</a>, and he has shown in previous seasons that he can both build a good football team but also a good program and culture. However, the coach will need to have a strong recruiting season with both incoming freshmen and transfers in order to make the team competitive again.</p><p>Next season, Tulane’s <a href="https://fbschedules.com/ncaa/tulane/" target="_blank">four non-conference games</a> will be against Massachusetts, Alcorn State, Kansas State and the University of Southern Mississippi. All games will be at home, except for Kansas State.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsideLB, post: 852037, member: 857"] Like everyone else I have no idea how OC Chip Long will work out. On paper at least there some things that suggest he is a decent fit for GT: [LIST] [*]Has experience at schools where academics are important (ND, Tulane). [*]Has a reputation as a good recruiter [*]RPO-based scheme will not require a radical shift to something different/going back to square one on offense [*]Has P5 coordinator experience / success at P5 level [*]Has co-ordinated some very good offenses in the past. [*]Like that he has coached TE. Hopefully we can have more depth and better overall performance out of this position going forward. [/LIST] The article pasted below is a non-paywall post-mortem of Tulane’s 2021 season. For those who don’t want to read their defense was terrible, their OL couldn’t protect the QB, and they had terrible FG kicking. I read another article where Fritz seemed at wit’s end regarding untimely procedure penalties at key times. Fritz said they simplified the snap count as much as humanly possible and drilled it and OL kept having procedure penalties despite this. Hurricane may have messed with them some too. My guess is that GT’s offensive line will have to develop more viable players / add players through the portal / be luckier with injuries next year for the offense to be much better than it was this year. Losing K. Kirby, A. Smith, K. Cooper, R. Johnson at guard (to fill in for J. Williams at T) this year really hurt us. At least P. Vaipulu got some good experience as did Weston Franklin. It would be helpful if Sims could stay healthy. I don’t think Key forgot how to coach OL since leaving Bama, but I do think it’s taken longer longer to get OL recruiting going than we’d like. It seems we have either missed on some of the early OL we got, or they are just taking a long time develop, or Key isn’t great at developing lesser type recruits into good OL. [HEADING=2]From the Basement | What went wrong with Tulane football?[/HEADING] [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/staff_name/mark-keplinger/']Mark Keplinger[/URL], Sports Editor December 1, 2021 [IMG alt="Tulane football"]https://tulanehullabaloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DSC_3165-475x317.jpg[/IMG]Willie Fritz looks to rebound after a disappointing season. (Parker Waters) In short, everything. Both on and off the field, Tulane University football was plagued with issues and challenges that it needed to face. Analyzing both off and on the field issues will help illuminate why Tulane football went from being an early season contender in the American Athletic Conference, to being the doormat of the conference. Off the field, the biggest challenge facing the team was the same challenge that Tulane University and the city of New Orleans faced: [URL='https://www.si.com/college/2021/09/01/tulane-evacuation-hurricane-ida-oklahoma']Hurricane Ida[/URL]. Tulane athletics evacuated the team to Birmingham, Alabama to continue to prepare for the coming season. The Green Wave showed great resilience in their first two games of the year, with a close loss in a hard fought game [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/56978/sports/oklahoma-fends-off-late-tulane-comeback-in-season-opener/']against the Oklahoma Sooners[/URL], then the second ranked team in the nation. Tulane then [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57010/sports/green-wave-dominates-morgan-state-looks-forward-to-ole-miss/']rolled over Morgan State[/URL] for its first win of the season. Both of these games were originally supposed to be played in New Orleans, and were instead played in Norman, Oklahoma and Birmingham, Alabama respectively. However, the biggest culprit to Tulane’s demise this season was, unsurprisingly, its defense. Time and again, the defense was ripped apart, giving up[URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57172/sports/tulane-football-falls-to-ole-miss-returns-to-yulman-saturday-to-face-uab/'] 61 to the Ole Miss Rebels[/URL], [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57388/sports/tulane-struggles-as-they-face-upset-from-east-carolina/']52 to the East Carolina Pirates[/URL], [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57422/sports/tulane-football-falls-to-houston-in-fourth-straight-loss/']40 to the Houston Cougars[/URL] and [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57780/sports/tulane-football-continues-disappointing-season-vs-smu/']55 to the SMU Mustangs[/URL]. In terms of points allowed per game, Tulane were 15th worst out of 130 schools, [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2021.html']giving up 34 points per game[/URL]. In comparison, during the 2020 season, Tulane had a middle of the pack defense, [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2020.html']ranked 57th best and giving up 28.1 points per game[/URL]. Tulane sought to play an aggressive style of defense this season. This showed in many positive ways, as the hard hitting Green Wave forced [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2021.html']16 turnovers[/URL] and [URL='https://www.foxsports.com/college-football/tulane-green-wave-team-summary-stats?season=2021&category=defense']sacked the quarterback 34 times[/URL]. This is similar to last season’s unit, which had [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2020.html']17 turnovers[/URL] and [URL='https://www.foxsports.com/college-football/tulane-green-wave-team-summary-stats?season=2020&category=defense']37 sacks[/URL]. So, where was the problem? The Green Wave gave up too many big plays and too many yards each game. Opposing teams averaged over 400 yards a game, an abysmal number from Tulane’s defense. The worst pummeling came from the Ole Miss game, where the star studded Rebels had a[URL='https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2021/11/29/22806304/tulane-green-wave-2021-season-recap-analysis-michael-pratt-willie-fritz-aac'] staggering 707 yards of offense[/URL]. Two games later, Tulane’s defense hit their low point against East Carolina. The Pirates had 612 yards of offense, with [URL='https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2021/11/29/22806304/tulane-green-wave-2021-season-recap-analysis-michael-pratt-willie-fritz-aac']222 of those yards coming from their running back Keaton Mitchell[/URL]. Offensively, the Green Wave looked to quarterback Michael Pratt to lead them. Last season, Pratt [URL='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FnIdCAdug2IuCuwUW_SnCz-wzT2L7GeG6zlVzGwLUrs/edit']proved to be a capable signal caller[/URL], throwing for 20 touchdowns, rushing for eight more and throwing only eight interceptions. He was also incredibly tough, as Pratt was sacked 33 times in 10 games. This season started [URL='https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/gamelog/_/id/4685039/type/college/year/2021']as more of the same for Pratt[/URL]. In his first three games, Pratt threw for seven touchdowns, ran for one more, threw no interceptions and was sacked six times. Unfortunately, the season turned on its head as he had bad games against University of Alabama Birmingham, East Carolina and Houston. His offensive line did him no favors either this season, as he was sacked 27 times in 11 games. It’s better than last season, but it is still not good. Against Houston, Pratt was sacked eight times. Against SMU, Pratt took a [URL='https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2021/11/29/22806304/tulane-green-wave-2021-season-recap-analysis-michael-pratt-willie-fritz-aac']vicious late hit after a slide[/URL], which injured him and forced him to sit out [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57873/sports/green-wave-falls-to-cincinnati-eliminated-from-bowl-game-contention/']against Cincinnati[/URL]. With the backup quarterback Justin Ibieta already out with injury, freshman Kai Horton was forced to step up. Horton deputized admirably, but Tulane’s offense clearly lacked the dynamism that Pratt provides. Pratt struggled initially after returning from injury. He did not look his normal electric self in the losses to [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57942/sports/tulane-football-falls-to-ucf-in-seventh-consecutive-loss-eighth-overall/']University of Central F[/URL]lorida and University of [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/58187/sports/green-wave-football-falls-to-tulsa-despite-late-heroics/']Tulsa[/URL], as he struggled to move the offense in both games. He did show off his incredible talent when the Green Wave dismantled University of South Florida, but finished out the season on a pedestrian note in the loss to Memphis. From a coaching perspective, the team made many mistakes, and often seemed to not be able to play a full four quarters of football. Tulane’s season was filled with untimely fumbles, such as the [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/56978/sports/oklahoma-fends-off-late-tulane-comeback-in-season-opener/']several instances lost against Oklahoma[/URL], or undisciplined play, from the [URL='https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/penalties-per-game']penalties Tulane committed[/URL], to [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57172/sports/tulane-football-falls-to-ole-miss-returns-to-yulman-saturday-to-face-uab/']Dorian Williams ejection against Ole Miss[/URL] and the several unnecessary roughness penalties [URL='https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57873/sports/green-wave-falls-to-cincinnati-eliminated-from-bowl-game-contention/']against the University of Cincinnati[/URL]. Penalties, in particular, are an area that need to be cleaned up, as Tulane [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/2021.html']averaged six a game[/URL] for 51.1 yards. Things are not all bleak in uptown New Orleans, however. The defense did improve over the course of the season. They were able to keep the high powered UCF offense quiet, and kept Tulane in the games against Tulsa, Cincinnati and Memphis. Offensively, Pratt is still a highly talented quarterback. Bad seasons happen to good players, and Pratt has shown over his two seasons that he has what it takes to be a great quarterback. Willie Fritz [URL='https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2021/11/29/22806304/tulane-green-wave-2021-season-recap-analysis-michael-pratt-willie-fritz-aac']will remain head coach of Tulane until 2026[/URL], and he has shown in previous seasons that he can both build a good football team but also a good program and culture. However, the coach will need to have a strong recruiting season with both incoming freshmen and transfers in order to make the team competitive again. Next season, Tulane’s [URL='https://fbschedules.com/ncaa/tulane/']four non-conference games[/URL] will be against Massachusetts, Alcorn State, Kansas State and the University of Southern Mississippi. All games will be at home, except for Kansas State. [/QUOTE]
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