It'll Be a Goldilocks Kind of Day in Yulman Saturday for TU-FAU
Tulane hosts Florida Atlantic in the Green Wave's homecoming matchup on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. in Yulman Stadium. The Wave come in at 7-2 overall, 4-1 in American Conference play. Tulane still has a chance to make the conference championship game by winning out its remaining games and getting a little help along the way. The Owls of FAU are 4-5 for the season, 3-3 in league games. They are all but mathematically eliminated from getting to the AAC championship contest.
It should be a downright pleasant day in Uptown. According to the Weather Channel, temperatures at kickoff should be around the 76-degree mark. Humidity will be around a tolerable 56% with breezes out of the South around 6-miles per hour under partly cloudy skies.
By game's end, temperatures will drop slightly to around 70-degrees.
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.