TU Baseball Staff Change, Four QBs in the Mix, and NCAA Bound in Track & Field
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Izzio Out at Tulane
Tulane made the announcement last week that associate head baseball coach Anthony Izzio will not be returning to the program in 2027. Izzio was especially responsible for the pitching staff, which has produced such gems as Michael Lombardi and Tayler Montiel. His staff hit a speed bump this season as injuries piled up and those not injured were not able to hit the strike zone consistently, yielding a collective 5.95 ERA for the staff, tied for third worse in the American Conference.
No word yet as to who will be hired to fulfill Izzio’s role on the Wave baseball staff.
Baseball Transfer Portal Opens
By the way, the NCAA baseball transfer portal opened today. Tulane was a big player in the transfer portal in 2025 bringing in 19-players. As of the publication of The Green Wave Report today, no one has applied for the portal from Uptown and none have committed to the Wave.
A Look at the QBs for the Fall
Beginning today, we begin our Summer-long series of looking at the 2026 Tulane football roster. We will be looking at returnees and newcomers at each position, and On SI Tulane reporter Colin Cummings will be talking to each position coach to get their perspective on where the Green Wave stand.
Of course, the Wave is coming off their third American Conference championship game, winning in 2022 and again in 2025 when Tulane advanced to its first ever College Football Playoff game.
The Green Wave roster did not have a lot of turnover in the transfer portal this season. Only twenty Greenies went looking for greener pastures, compared to sixty the previous year. However, in the ever-important quarterback position, the Wave is again searching for their next star. This week, we examine the QB slot and in our opinion there are four who are heading into Fall camp with a chance to make it into the starting slot. Look for our story here.
On to the NCAA Championships
As the first round of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships wrapped up in Lexington, Kentucky Saturday afternoon Tulane multi-talented athlete Silas Kiptanui made history in the men’s 3,000m steeplechase, posting a mark of 8:18.09 to top the leaderboard and qualify for nationals in a second-straight campaign. His time broke his own record for both Tulane and the American Conference as well as setting a new record for the facility in Lexington.
Kiptanui will be back in action in two weeks at the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which are held in Eugene, Oregon, from June 10 to 13.
Wave Aquatics Adds an All-Star Coach
The Green Wave swimming and diving program has announced the hiring of Richard Marschner as the program’s Head Diving Coach.
Marschner spent the previous 16 seasons as the head diving coach at Utah. During his tenure, he earned four conference Diving Coach of the Year honors, including the 2021 Pac-12 Men’s Diving Coach of the Year award, the 2024 Pac-12 Women’s Diving Coach of the Year honor, the 2025 Big 12 Men’s Diving Coach of the Year recognition and the 2026 Big 12 Men’s Diving Coach of the Year honor.
Next week, we’ll be talking about some key additions and returnees in the running back room, making up what we believe is the deepest slate of running backs we have seen at Tulane in a very long time..
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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.