Day 9 Tulane Spring Football: The Green Wave Report, April 4, 2026
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Day nine of spring football for the Tulane program. A comfortable, mostly cloudy day in yeoman stadium. Every now and then, the sun would peak out from behind the cloud cover, making it a little bit warmer.. Again, humidity is up there but not near as humid as midweek was.
Well, over 50 recruit possibilities and their families were in Yulman stadium for this Easter Saturday practice. Close to 100 family members were in the shady side of the stands in Yulman there to watch their Young men watch the Tulane practice session.
Some good news today: last year's breakout running back, Jamauri McClure, was participating in Spring practice for the first time since off-season shoulder surgery. Hold on. Don't get ahead of me: no pads, no contact, but it was good to see McClure get non-contact reps with the offense early in practice. He actually ran through a few holes during offensive drills and was seen during team drills at the end of practice watching from the field.
During special teams drills, we got to see St. Martin graduate Cooper Helmke work on field goals for the first time. He is competing for the starting Place kicker role for this year after an injury plagued freshman year uptown.
He had a 35 yd attempt blocked. Can't blame him for poor edge blocking, but the redshirt freshman nailed a 48-yard field goal, with pressure, that sailed through the uprights and halfway into the stands. The field goal received ooh's and Ahs from the people on the sideline.
Today, interviews with head coach Will Hall, wide receivers Anthony Brown-Stevens and Destyn Hill, along with linebacker Chris Rodgers which can be seen on our YouTube Channel. You can see those particular interviews by clicking here.
We hope you've enjoyed this special spring football edition of the Green Wave Report from On SI Tulane. Monday, our regular edition of the Green Wave Report you’ll join us at 4:00 p.m. In the meantime, please subscribe and comment as much as you want. I'm Doug Joubert.
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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.