Day 7 Spring Football Moves to Metairie
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On the 7th Day, the Wave Heads to Metry
Day 7 of spring football practice for Will Hall and his troops. Practices will be held Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday for the next 3 weeks leading up to the finale: the annual spring game at 9:00 a.m. in Yulman stadium on Saturday, April 18th.
The Green Wave moved practices inside because of potential severe weather. Instead of holding practice at the Tulane indoor practice facility, Hall took his team to the Saints indoor field. Lightening was forecast for Uptown, so it was a precautionary measure. In addition, Hall wanted his new Chief of Staff, Chris Hatcher and new Director of Football, Roy Thornton to get the experience of the process, which Hall told us will happen in the future, even with the Bubble, because the football team cannot hold a full practice on Claiborne. But maybe most importantly, the Bubble isn't technologically ready.
"The ability to film in our indoor facility is not going to be finalized for a few more days," Hall told us when we asked about using the new Tulane facility. "and I didn't want to lose (the chance for) the video."
Limited Video Opportunities Again
Any videoing of the practice sessions by the media was limited to stretching activities. This has happened before, and it was still boring this time. So no videos except for our interviews, which today include head coach will hall, and the two men competing for the starting quarterback position: Kadin Semonza and Zeon Chriss-Gremillion. The complete interviews can be viewed on our YouTube Channel along with our weekly reports on all Tulane athletics including baseball and basketball. To see all three interviews, click here.
On a non-football note, Tulane baseball entertains Nicholls tonight at Turchin stadium. First pitch is set for 6:30.
We hope you've enjoyed this special spring football edition of the Green Wave Report from On SI Tulane. Thursday the Green Wave football team has Spring practice session #8. We will be covering that for you and bring you a special edition of the Green Wave Report Thursday. We hope you’ll join us at 4:00 p.m. Thursday.
Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.