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coit said:
Just because some writer publishes an article doesn't make it "smoke." There are 4 candidates, that's really the only takeaway here.
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The journalist communicates with anonymous donors and people in the know.
 
Milwaukee said:
Stunk it up @ Tulane for 6yrs and had a great season this year. His agent is going after any vulnerable takers while he’s at his peak. Can’t blame Fritz or his team for that.
41-45 overall @ Tulane
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One thing to keep in perspective is how gawd awful Tulane was before he got there. Fritz has had more .500+ seasons there himself than the school had since Tommy Bowden left in ~2000. Poor support plus urban environment plus academic restrictions plus competing with the big resource-heavy in-state SEC school make it a hard place to win consistently. Sound familiar? He’s been successful everywhere else he’s been, typically turning around struggling programs. Given the challenges, I don’t think it’s fair to solely judge him on how long it took to win 10+ games at Tulane.
 
bonafidejacket said:
One thing to keep in perspective is how gawd awful Tulane was before he got there. Fritz has had more .500+ seasons there himself than the school had since Tommy Bowden left in ~2000. Poor support plus urban environment plus academic restrictions plus competing with the big resource-heavy in-state SEC school make it a hard place to win consistently. Sound familiar? He’s been successful everywhere else he’s been, typically turning around struggling programs. Given the challenges, I don’t think it’s fair to solely judge him on how long it took to win 10+ games at Tulane.
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“He’s been successful everywhere else he’s been,”

41-45 W/L. Since when is success defined as a losing record?
 
bonafidejacket said:
One thing to keep in perspective is how gawd awful Tulane was before he got there. Fritz has had more .500+ seasons there himself than the school had since Tommy Bowden left in ~2000. Poor support plus urban environment plus academic restrictions plus competing with the big resource-heavy in-state SEC school make it a hard place to win consistently. Sound familiar? He’s been successful everywhere else he’s been, typically turning around struggling programs. Given the challenges, I don’t think it’s fair to solely judge him on how long it took to win 10+ games at Tulane.
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While these are fair points, telling the fan base that we're about to get serious about football and then hiring a guy who would make his p5 coaching debut at 63 years old would not be a great start for Batt from an optics standpoint.
 
andrew said:
There's more smoke around Fritz the last twelve hours than anyone else at any point. I am getting worried. I'd rather have BOB. And Key over either of them, assuming Chadwell is out.
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Don't forget that leaks to the media are frequently motivated by underlying agendas. It could be that someone is using Ken to steer public opinion towards or away from a specific outcome. There is a lot of money and influence at stake here - I wouldn't put anything past anybody at this pivotal point in the process.
 
Fritz is a good coach. I'm not opining for him but he has done reasonably well with Tulane and when he coached Ga, Southern, I watched them and thought they were well coached and had good creative offenses. I guess Long worked for him. Is that right?
 
79tech said:
Fritz is a good coach. I'm not opining for him but he has done reasonably well with Tulane and when he coached Ga, Southern, I watched them and thought they were well coached and had good creative offenses. I guess Long worked for him. Is that right?
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I don't think he's a bad coach, but I also just don't believe he's a hire we can make right now. He's in his 60s and has never coached or recruited at this level, and while he's certainly been Tulane's best coach in awhile, the reality is that he's not a major candidate for any other P5 jobs and wouldn't even be mentioned for ours if not for recency bias (i.e. one great year).
 
gtfan088 said:
I don't think he's a bad coach, but I also just don't believe he's a hire we can make right now. He's in his 60s and has never coached or recruited at this level, and while he's certainly been Tulane's best coach in awhile, the reality is that he's not a major candidate for any other P5 jobs and wouldn't even be mentioned for ours if not for recency bias (i.e. one great year).
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Man, if people have wanted to describe Chadwell and Bill Lewis as being the same thing, wait til they get a load of this guy.
 
gtfan088 said:
I don't think he's a bad coach, but I also just don't believe he's a hire we can make right now. He's in his 60s and has never coached or recruited at this level, and while he's certainly been Tulane's best coach in awhile, the reality is that he's not a major candidate for any other P5 jobs and wouldn't even be mentioned for ours if not for recency bias (i.e. one great year).
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He would be the proverbial fork stuck in our football program that is done.
 
GTCrew said:
It's easy on the outside not knowing how unreasonable the candidates are being WRT contracts, but why if you can't get Chadwell or Deion why think wholesale change from Key is necessary?
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I have a crack theory on it. It's based on the rumors of booster insistence on Key and the even more tenuous rumor that Chadwell pulled his name out after they got too involved in the process. So Chadwell is out and it would seem logical to turn back to Key, but this is the coach all the boosters were insisting on and now Batt doesn't want to seem like he is hiring him because the booster told him to, so he is looking at a different coach.
 
GTLiebs said:
I have a crack theory on it. It's based on the rumors of booster insistence on Key and the even more tenuous rumor that Chadwell pulled his name out after they got too involved in the process. So Chadwell is out and it would seem logical to turn back to Key, but this is the coach all the boosters were insisting on and now Batt doesn't want to seem like he is hiring him because the booster told him to, so he is looking at a different coach.
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