October 2005 NewsStand
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October 31, 2005
Winning plays elude Tulane
Times Picayune
When you really think about it, there are many things that go into winning football games. But the most important is making plays. Somehow, doing that often, and when it matters most, has escaped Tulane this season...
October 30, 2005
Away becomes home for college athletes displaced
Los Angeles Times
Even though she lives in a dorm that had been left empty and targeted for demolition, soccer player Jessica Trauer is grateful. Even though he has to walk "like, miles, I think" to get to class, basketball player Matt Wheaton said, "I feel blessed to be here." They are among the 90 or so Tulane University student-athletes attending school and practicing their sports at Texas A&M University since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans two months ago...
Green Wave bottoms out in fourth quarter
Times Picayune
For the first time in a month, Tulane came up with big plays and created turnovers. It still wasn't enough. The Green Wave found another way to let one get away, this time squandering a 12-point lead and letting Marshall leave Ladd-Peebles Stadium with a 27-26 Conference USA victory Saturday night...
Late Marshall TD shocks Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate (AP)
Ahmad Bradshaw's 3-yard touchdown run with 2:10 left in the fourth quarter lifted Marshall to a 27-26 comeback victory over Tulane on Saturday night that extended the Green Wave's losing streak to four games...
Herd rallies for win
Mobile Register
Marshall overcame an early Tulane lead and got a late touchdown from Ahmad Bradshaw to lead the Thundering Herd to a 27-26 victory over the Green Wave in Conference USA action before 13,290 fans at Ladd-Peebles Stadium Saturday night...
October 29, 2005
Wave carries sense of urgency
Times Picayune
Even after Hurricane Katrina sent Tulane's football team packing for higher ground, expectations for an outstanding season were running high. With 18 starters returning and an abundance of senior leadership, the Green Wave had every reason to expect 2005 to be a bowl year. But, with each game, those hopes have been slowly fading...
Tulane vs. Marshall: The Vitals
Times Picayune
Tulane opponents have been penalized for an average of 84.8 yards per game, the most by a C-USA team's opponents. Marshall has been a disciplined team this season, averaging 42.3 penalty yards per game, the fewest in the conference...
Tulane needs to get defensive
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane will try to end a three-game losing skid when it plays Marshall in a Conference USA game at 6 p.m. today in Mobile, Ala. Some good ways for the Green Wave (2-4, 1-3 in C-USA) to approach that task would be to allow fewer than 400 yards, create some turnovers and take better care of the ball...
Ricard staying tough for Green Wave
Beckley (W.V.) Register-Herald
Give Lester Ricard credit for being able to find a silver lining in an otherwise dark cloud. After the devastation Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans in early September, the Tulane football team has been forced from its home. All 11 of the Green Wave's games this season will be played at 11 different sites...
Marshall back at site of bowl wins to take on Tulane
Mobile (Ala.) Register
The Tulane Green Wave will officially be the home team tonight when it faces the Marshall Thundering Herd at Ladd-Peebles Stadium. But with the exception of a couple of former Mobile-area high school players, all the experience of playing in Mobile will be with the Thundering Herd...
October 28, 2005
Football isn't only concern for Tulane's Scelfo
Charleston (W.V.) Gazette
He is Tulane's only coach to win two bowl games. Two of his quarterbacks were first-round NFL draft picks. Not feats to sneeze at, but that's not for what Chris Scelfo will be best known. By merely putting his Green Wave on the field, Scelfo has pulled off one of the most difficult tasks in college football history...
October 27, 2005
Cromartie back to lend Ottawa a hand
Ottowa (Canada) Sun
Former Tulane standout Keaton Cromartie stood on the south sideline of Frank Clair Stadium yesterday, braving the howling wind. And he was smiling, the last thing you'd expect on the face of a man who's had a trying year -- on and off the field...
Scelfo familiar with Marshall
Monroe News Star
It's safe to say Tulane coach Chris Scelfo has heard of Marshall's Thundering Herd. He was an assistant at the Huntington, W. Va., school for six years, helping the Herd to four I-AA national championship game appearances - including a national title in 1992. His Green Wave meets Marshall at 6 p.m. Saturday in Mobile, Ala...
Another QB challenge for Herd
Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail
There's something different about Lester Ricard. Although the Tulane quarterback appears to fit in perfectly with the parade of big, strong-armed passers Marshall has faced recently, there's one thing Ricard doesn't have in common -- his supporting cast...
Which Ricard will Herd face?
Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail
Will the real Lester Ricard please drop back? Is he the Tulane quarterback that passed for 376 yards against Texas-El Paso? Is he the Green Wave junior that is averaging 261.5 yards passing per game? Or is he the sometimes-addled quarterbacks who threw four interceptions last week in a 34-24 loss to Central Florida?..
Tulane's Cannon is explosive 'backer
Charleston (W.V.) Gazette
There is something about Tulane middle linebacker Anthony Cannon, and it just isn't natural. You see it at the top of an otherwise mundane defensive stat sheet. It's no surprise that Cannon, a fourth-year starter and former freshman All-American, is at the top of the Green Wave's list of tackles with 66...
October 26, 2005
Tulane dealing with adversity after Katrina
USA Today
After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in late August, Tulane and other New Orleans-area schools were forced to cancel the fall semester, leaving sports teams in limbo. In the week that followed, Tulane athletics director Rick Dickson scrambled to determine where Green Wave teams would be located and how their seasons could be saved...
Tulane Men's Basketball Preview
CNNSI.com
It doesn't actually seem like that long ago when Tulane was making waves nationally. The little gym. The Posse. Perry Clark. Jerald Honeycutt. All together, it created something special in New Orleans. But it's now been 11 years since Tulane last played in an NCAA Tournament...
Cannon plays up to expectations
Times Picayune
When the season started, Tulane linebacker Anthony Cannon appeared certain to crack the school's top 10 list in career tackles. He entered the season needing 19 tackles to make it onto the elite list. With five games remaining, Cannon will wind up in a much smaller group...
Tulane, Marshall connected by coaches
Baton Rouge Advocate
For two programs that have never played each other in football before, Tulane and Marshall sure have a lot in common. It's a long way from Huntington, W.Va., to New Orleans, or even the Green Wave's temporary home in Ruston. But these programs and their coaching staffs do have several connections as they prepare to meet for the first time Saturday in Mobile, Ala...
Tulane turns to igniting offense by eliminating crucial turnovers
Monroe News Star
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo, faced with another game moved by another hurricane, made no excuses about last week's loss to Central Florida. "The bottom line on it was that we have five turnovers. You can't do that," said Scelfo...
Tulane QB will go long
Charleston (W.V.) Gazette
As Marshall prepares for yet another dangerous Conference USA passing attack, defenders know one thing: Tulane's Lester Ricard isn't going to "dink and dunk" all game long. At some point, the bomb is coming. With tall, physical threats Preston Brown and Bubba Terranova to throw to, Ricard eventually will heave The Big One a few times...
Former Thundering Herd assistant now leading Tulane
Beckley (W.V.) Register-Herald
Chris Scelfo hopes the early 1990s don't come back to haunt him. Scelfo, now in his seventh season as head coach at Tulane, will coach against Marshall (3-4, 2-2 Conference USA) for the first time Saturday. The Green Wave (2-4, 1-3) "host" the Thundering Herd in Mobile, Ala., at 7 p.m. on CSTV...
October 25, 2005
Not riding Wave of momentum
Times Picayune
When Eric Schumann became Tulane's defensive coordinator in 2002, he made it a point to let every defensive player know that every job was up for grabs and the way to move up the depth chart was to create big plays. That season, Tulane forced 43 turnovers, one shy of the school record. Things have not been the same since...
Green Wave hitting land wherever it can
Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail
Chris Scelfo steadfastly refuses to use Hurricane Katrina as an excuse. Sure, the catastrophic storm has turned Tulane into football vagabonds. When Tulane "hosts" Marshall in Mobile, Ala., at 7 p.m. EDT Saturday at Ladd-Peebles Stadium, it will be the Green Wave's seventh game in seven stadiums...
Tulane coach will experience his own homecoming against Herd
Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail
Is there such a thing as a "homecoming game" when a team is playing its entire season on the road? There is for Tulane Coach Chris Scelfo...
Tulane `home' ...in Mobile
Charleston (W.V.) Gazette
It's a home game for the Tulane football program. That means the Green Wave gets to stay home in its familiar surroundings of New... No, check that. The football team hasn't been in New Orleans since it took its road jerseys and fled the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Players are taking classes at Louisiana Tech in Ruston. So, home game in Ruston? No. Once this season, not this week...
October 24, 2005
Tulane anxious to get back to campus
ESPN.com
Tulane senior forward Quincy Davis is not very optimistic about the shape of his campus after Hurricane Katrina. Yet the Green Wave men's basketball team is going back to New Orleans for Christmas Eve anyway, after spending the first semester at Texas A&M...
Tulane Basketball Preview
ESPN.com
Two months after former Maryland assistant Dave Dickerson was hired as Tulane's 22nd head coach, The Sporting News printed a feature and accompanying day-by-day sketch of Dickerson's first 30 days in office, beginning April 1. It was a nice swig of pub for a program that hasn't visited the NCAA Tournament since 1995. Now if the story had just delineated these projected key dates...
Tulane fighting through tough ordeal
Beckley (W.V.) Register-Herald
Tulane would be winless right now if it was having the same type of trouble as Marshall. While the Thundering Herd is winless on the road this season, the Green Wave would love to have a home to travel from. Instead, Tulane has been displaced since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in early September...
Texas Tech bookstore goes green
Lubock Avalanche-Journal
Now featured at a Raider Red bookstore: green. The Texas Tech campus bookstore began selling Tulane University T-shirts in late September, a nod to the 47 Tulane University baseball and women's basketball athletes currently housed at Tech. Colleges across Texas and the country began accepting students from Louisiana on a temporary basis after Hurricane Katrina closed several New Orleans-area universities, including Tulane...
WNBA Blog Squad
NBA.com
Former Tulane women's basketball standout Janell Burse updates her weekly weblog for NBA.com...
October 22, 2005
Tulane again own worst enemy vs. UCF
Times Picayune
Tulane quickly is turning self-destruction into an art form. On Friday night at the Citrus Bowl, the Green Wave shot committed five turnovers in its 34-24 Conference USA loss to Central Florida. In the past three games, Tulane (2-4, 1-3 C-USA), has committed nine turnovers while forcing none...
Lone first-half penalty proves costly for Wave
Times Picayune
In the first half of Central Florida's 34-24 victory over Tulane on Friday night, the Golden Knights stayed ahead despite a storm of penalty flags, seven for 70 yards. Tulane, meanwhile, drew one first-half flag. It might as well have been white...
Loss drops Wave to 2-4 on season
Monroe News Star (AP)
Kevin Smith ran for 113 yards and a touchdown, and he also threw a pass to Darcy Johnson for a key third-quarter score to lead Central Florida to a 34-24 win over Tulane on Friday night in Orlando, Fla...
UCF grinds out victory
Orlando Sentinel
The combination of scoreboard and statistics show something convincing, something punishing. UCF knows better. The Golden Knights know this was Fortunate Friday. The Knights survived against Tulane despite themselves -- and with plenty of help from the Green Wave...
Green Wave's players deal with changing itenerary
Orlando Sentinel
Friday was one long day for Tulane's football team. The Green Wave woke up on game day in Ruston, La., boarded a plane in Monroe and arrived in Orlando shortly after lunch. That gave players and coaches time to rest in their hotel room for about two hours before pre-game meetings began, Tulane assistant head coach Bill D'Ottavio said...
October 21, 2005
Tulane on the road to battle UCF tonight
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane and the University of Central Florida had the same point of emphasis this week in their preparations for today's Conference USA game (6 p.m. CDT in Orlando, Fla.) -- cut down on turnovers. Another point of emphasis was keeping an eye on Hurricane Wilma, but that issue was settled when kickoff was moved up from Saturday to avoid the storm...
Malone Stadium to welcome Wave
Monroe News Star
Louisiana-Monroe's Malone Stadium will play host to Tulane's final "home" game of the season Nov. 19 when the Green Wave face Tulsa at 1 p.m. The finalized deal means Tulane, displaced from its city, its campus and its home stadium by Hurricane Katrina, will complete the regular season by playing 11 games in 11 different stadiums. The Tulane football team is headquartered at Louisiana Tech...
Tulane still coping with reality of displacement
Orlando Sentinel
They wrap themselves in football. Game plans, video sessions and practices serve as emotional security blankets and protective shields. Digesting X's and O's and cueing in on new task every week still are more appealing than thinking about what's on the horizon...
Tulane vs. UCF
Orlando Sentinel
After a solid start in the wake of a lengthy hurricane evacuation, the Green Wave have lost two in a row, both to C-USA teams (Houston and UTEP). Junior QB Lester Ricard heads a nice passing attack, but the Green Wave is last in the league in rushing (just 85.4 ypg)...
October 20, 2005
Green Wave's game against UCF moved up for Wilma
Times Picayune
You're kidding, right? For the third time this year, a hurricane has altered the schedule of the already hurricane-displaced Tulane football team. Saturday's game at Central Florida has been pushed to Friday night at 6 p.m. because of the threat of Hurricane Wilma hitting the Orlando area this weekend...
Nine of Tulane's football games affected by hurricanes so far
Baton Rouge Advocate
For the ninth time this year, a hurricane has disrupted Tulane's football schedule. The Green Wave will play Central Florida on Friday instead of Saturday to avoid Hurricane Wilma, which is expected to hit central Florida on Saturday...
Green Wave looks to limit turnovers
Monroe News Star
When Tulane takes on Central Florida this Saturday they will face a much different team than the one which finished 0-11 last year. Under second-year coach George O'Leary, the Golden Knights have won three of their last four games, including a stretch of three in a row...
Tulane's new football headquarters get job done
Houston Chronicle
The makeshift locker room isn't even the old-school variety that comes with a row of nails along the wall to hang clothes on. Pads and helmets simply sit upon rows of blue plastic chairs with numbers taped to the back on slips of paper. The football players now meet in one large room at their temporary home. They're separated by position and by foam wall boards held together by duct tape. For the first week on campus, there were no film projectors or VCRs...
Women's Basketball: It's a big jump from Emeril to IHOP
Houston Chronicle
Alendra Brown wanted to play college basketball at Tulane so she could be close to her home in New Orleans. On Aug. 30, the day the levees broke following Hurricane Katrina, that home was washed away. Brown's family has relocated to New York City, her place of birth, and does not plan on returning to Louisiana...
Freshman golfer hangs hat in many homes before Dallas
Houston Chronicle
By the time the Tulane campus reopens, many of the Green Wave athletes will have taken the long road to return. But nobody will have traveled farther than Nick Heather. An incoming freshman, Heather boarded a flight with his mother in Dublin, Ireland, on Aug. 28., the day before Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans...
Volleyball: Temporary Aggie adjusts to new gig
Houston Chronicle
Of all the changes Sara Thorson has been forced to endure during the last several weeks, getting used to the enormous Texas A&M campus has been perhaps the most daunting adjustment. Thorson, a middle blocker for the Tulane volleyball team, has had to get used to the sprawling campus after she and her teammates found a temporary home when their quaint campus was shut down by Hurricane Katrina...
Switching game puts burden on Tulane
Orlando Sentinel
Changing Saturday's kickoff against Tulane to 7 p.m. Friday at the Florida Citrus Bowl will not affect the Golden Knights' workout today, but it will mean another long day for the Green Wave. Coach Chris Scelfo's team will fly in Friday morning, play the game and fly home immediately afterward. The team will keep the charter flight plans it made shortly after moving its base of operations to Ruston, La., in August after Hurricane Katrina...
Wilma forces UCF, Tulane to reschedule
Orlando Sentinel
Due to the impending threat of Hurricane Wilma to the state of Florida, UCF Athletic Director Steve Orsini announced that Saturday's game against Tulane has been rescheduled. UCF and Tulane, as well as Conference USA, agreed to move the game to Oct. 21 and the game will still be played at the Florida Citrus Bowl as scheduled...
October 19, 2005
Wave running on empty
Times Picayune
It's official: There's nothing wrong with Tulane's running game. That word just in from Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo, who says the problem isn't with the offensive line or the running backs, but with the way opposing defenses have played Tulane...
Tulane LB Cannon covers field
Baton Rouge Advocate
Opponents scouting film of Tulane's game against Houston two weeks ago might be confused, but not for long. Middle linebacker Anthony Cannon was forced to change jerseys for the second half. His No. 11 jersey got ripped and since the Green Wave evacuated New Orleans with just one set of jerseys, he put on freshman quarterback Ryan Meyers' No. 10...
Conference USA Basketball Notes
Houston Chronicle
The conference Media Day offered Tulane's basketball programs the opportunity to focus on the season and expedite the process of recovering from Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans on Aug. 29. "It's been such a different year as far as what has taken our attention and our time," Green Wave women's coach Lisa Stockton said...
Tulane coach copes with uncertainty
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Dave Dickerson is in his first year as Tulane's basketball coach. Because of Hurricane Katrina, his team has been uprooted and relocated to Texas A&M's campus. His team won't play a home game until January...
More with Tulane coach Dave Dickerson
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Tulane basketball coach Dave Dickerson spoke at the Conference USA media days this week about the hardships faced by his team, which was driven from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and now calls Texas A&M University its temporary home...
Riding out a stormy senior season
Florida Times Union
Before leaving his two-story townhouse on Aug. 28, Darren Sapp packed three days' worth of clothes. He didn't think he'd be gone any longer. He also took a pillow, his flip-flops, his student ID and his driver's license. But he didn't bother to bring any valuable items with him. This wasn't the first time that Sapp was forced to leave his home because of a hurricane, and like the rest of his Tulane football teammates, the former Stanton Prep standout thought he'd be returning to New Orleans soon...
October 18, 2005
Miscues, big plays hinder Green Wave
Times Picayune
Not even two days of dissecting the tape -- frame by frame -- could make Tulane coach Chris Scelfo view the 45-21 loss to Texas-El Paso on Friday night differently than the way he did minutes after the game ended. For Scelfo, the 60 minutes of misery was brought on by nothing more than three mistakes, two of which led to 10 points by the Miners, and the other prevented the Green Wave from scoring after driving 75 yards and reaching UTEP's 14-yard line...
October 16, 2005
Green Wave can't overcome mistakes
Times Picayune
This time, Tulane couldn't blame its poor performance on a four- or five-hour bus ride. This time, it could only blame itself. And this time, there was plenty of blame to go around...
Ricard puts up big numbers
Times Picayune
Again, Lester Ricard's backup trotted onto the field; again, Ricard was frustrated. But this time, Ricard wasn't benched. Instead, he was replaced by backup Scott Elliot after Texas-El Paso's 45-21 victory Friday night was well in hand. Six days earlier against Houston, when Tulane trailed 21-7 in the third quarter, Ricard was benched...
October 15, 2005
Miners topple Tulane
El Paso Times
Before his team took the field Friday, UTEP coach Mike Price talked about the charge of energy he felt upon returning to the Joe Aillet Stadium -- site of last year's emphatic victory against Louisiana Tech in which the Miners officially qualified for a bowl game...
UTEP pulls away late from Tulane
Alexandria Town Talk (AP)
Jordan Palmer threw three touchdown passes, and Texas-El Paso scored the final 21 points to beat Tulane 45-21 on Friday night in a Conference USA game at Joe Aillet Stadium. Tulane (2-3, 1-2 C-USA) played its fourth "home" game at its fourth stadium. The Green Wave, who normally play home games in the Louisiana Superdome, were displaced by Hurricane Katrina and are currently being hosted by Louisiana Tech...
Tulane fails to muster home win at Aillet, 45-21
Monroe News Star
Tulane could not overcome three costly turnovers Friday night as the Green Wave fell 45-21 to UTEP at Aillet Stadium before an announced crowd of 13,153. Two of the turnovers led directly to UTEP scores and the third turnover halted a possible Tulane scoring drive as the Green Wave lost their second consecutive Conference USA contest...
October 14, 2005
Wave defense eager to make stand against UTEP
Times Picayune
When Tulane's defense ranked No. 1 in the nation after allowing 352 yards in its first two games, Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo cautioned that it had yet to go up against an "offensive juggernaut." The Green Wave has played two games since Scelfo's warning, and its defense has fallen to No. 12...
Tulane/UTEP capsule
Times Picayune
The brawny senior is expected to start his first game this year, after a sturdy showing in last week's loss to Houston. Jackson has been getting carries in previous games -- 11 to Matt Fortè's 21 last week -- but hasn't been the featured back...
Dickerson coping with new kind of 'madness'
Times Picayune
Just two months ago, Dave Dickerson, Tulane's new men's basketball coach, had visions of Midnight Madness giving the Green Wave's 2005-06 season its first spark of enthusiasm. "You know, Lefty Driesell is the one who started Midnight Madness at Maryland," Dickerson said of his former coach...
Green Wave women small on numbers, big on desire
Times Picayune
The basketball team has only 10 players. Three potential starters are out for the year. And there isn't one senior on the roster. That's enough to make a coach peruse the 401K. Then, try moving the team to a campus 866 miles away, missing half of preseason conditioning and, oh yeah, wondering about where some players will live once they return to their tattered homes...
Tulane to battle UTEP in C-USA clash tonight
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's defense has fallen from its lofty ranking the last two weeks and it faces another big test when it plays UTEP at 7 p.m. today in Ruston (ESPN). The Green Wave (2-2 overall and 1-1 in Conference USA) was first in the country in yards allowed two weeks ago. It dropped to second after allowing a season-high 309 yards in a 28-21 victory against Southeastern Louisiana...
Green Wave now at home at Aillet
Monroe News Star
UTEP probably figured it had seen the last of Ruston and Joe Aillet Stadium after last season's football game against Louisiana Tech when the Miners accepted an invitation this summer into Conference USA. But here the Miners (3-1, 1-1) are, a year later, facing Tulane (2-2, 1-1) in a crucial game in their new conference -- in Ruston today -- in what is a home game for the displaced Green Wave. Kickoff for this nationally televised game on ESPN is set for 7 p.m...
October 13, 2005
Tulane rebounds from Hurricane Katrina
Fox Sports
Perhaps the biggest recruiting story among all the teams in college football this year is the story of the Tulane Green Wave. Tulane, located in New Orleans, La., is a team on the move due to Hurricane Katrina. Like the NFL's New Orleans Saints, the Green Wave had to find a new home. First they shared the facilities with Southern Methodist in Dallas. Two weeks ago, they moved to Ruston, La., and Louisiana Tech. The NCAA told Tulane they did not have to attend class this fall. Instead, the entire Green Wave football team enrolled in classes at Louisiana Tech...
At Tulane, Pain and Wisdom
Washington Post
Five weeks ago, Dave Dickerson met with his Tulane men's basketball players for the first time since Hurricane Katrina rendered their New Orleans campus inoperable and displaced them to this new home at Texas A&M. With players searching for direction, the first-year coach spoke about a topic he had mostly avoided in his coaching career...
October 12, 2005
RB Jackson regains starting role
Times Picayune
When the season started, Tulane's Jovon Jackson had failed to reclaim the starting tailback spot from sophomore Matt Fortè. But after four games, the senior from St. Petersburg, Fla., is back in the Green Wave's starting lineup. Following two weeks of hard running, Jackson will make his first start at tailback against Texas-El Paso on Friday night...
Scelfo says Ricard needs more consistency
Baton Rouge Advocate
Lester Ricard is still Tulane's quarterback, but recently he hasn't looked like the quarterback the Green Wave has been counting on. Ricard has been inconsistent through four games and he struggled so much during a 35-14 loss to Houston last week that coach Chris Scelfo benched him for two series during the third quarter...
Home Sweet Home
Monroe News Star
It's not the Superdome, and there isn't artificial turf, but Joe Aillet Stadium will be a welcome sight for Tulane's football team Friday night. After bussing all over the state to play its first three home games, Tulane -- which has taken temporary residence at Louisiana Tech -- will play host to a home football game at their new home in a crucial Conference USA showdown against UTEP...
October 11, 2005
Tulane's Ricard struggling
Times Picayune
Tulane offensive coordinator Frank Scelfo believes quarterbacks get too much credit and too much blame. But in Tulane's offense, one that even Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo admits is quarterback driven, that may not be the case. Just how well quarterback Lester Ricard plays has a huge bearing on how successful the offense is...
Sagging Green Wave searches for off
Shreveport Times
If there were any doubts about the value of Lester Ricard to the Tulane offense, those should have been dismissed Saturday night. As Ricard struggled against Houston, so to did his Tulane University Green Wave teammates in a 35-14 loss to the Cougars...
Injury bug bites Miners' wideouts
El Paso Times
It appears UTEP senior receiver Chris Francies may miss Friday's game against Tulane in Ruston, La. Francies suffered bruised ribs in a 27-20 loss at Memphis on Oct. 1. He has not practiced since...
October 10, 2005
Tulane teams just happy to be playing
Golf World
There's little risk in even the most casual college observer confusing last week's Memphis Intercollegiate tournament with the NCAA Championship. And typically a seventh-place finish in such a modest, 15-team event doesn't produce fist pumps and high fives. Yet when you're part of a group of golfing refugees trying desperately to resume simply being student-athletes, the first step on the journey can be the most satisfying even when it's not the most difficult...
Tulane analysis: Houston loss a real stinker
Times Picayune
As Tulane coach Chris Scelfo stood outside of Louisiana-Lafayette's athletic building following his team's 35-14 defeat to Houston on Saturday night, he shepherded his players through the doors leading to the team's locker room. Shortly after a few players passed through the double steel doors, he said: "Don't start taking your stuff off"...
October 9, 2005
Gilbert, Houston roll past Tulane
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
It wasn't Ryan Gilbert's first trip back to Louisiana, but it was the most meaningful. Houston's senior running back will head back across the Sabine River with a three-touchdown effort here Saturday, one that led the Cougars to a 35-14 win over Tulane in the Green Wave's displaced home game at Cajun Field...
Houston runs past Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate
Ryan Gilbert often returns to Louisiana, but this time he was a running back on a mission. Gilbert, who played at LSU, was the main University of Houston weapon that shredded Tulane's No.2-ranked defense Saturday in a 35-14 victory at Louisiana-Lafayette's Cajun Field...
Neutral site plays little role in game
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
Both Tulane and Houston had bus rides of three and one-half hours Saturday to get to Cajun Field, but both coaches said that wasn't a big factor in their Conference USA contest won 35-14 by the "visiting" Cougars...
Gilbert helps UH dazzle Tulane 35-14
Houston Chronicle
Now that's more like it. The Houston Cougars, who have alternated moments of brilliance with spells of lackluster play, put together a brilliant second half that wore down the already worn-out Tulane Green Wave 35-14 on Saturday night before 15,454 at Cajun Field...
October 8, 2005
Tulane goes for third Cajun Field win
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
Tulane's Green Wave football squad has appeared at Cajun Field twice in the program's history and has emerged with two widely-diverse wins. The Wave topped the host UL Ragin' Cajuns 56-0 in 1997 and then escaped with a 38-37 victory in 2000. Today, they won't be picky. They'll take either one...
Inside the Tulane-Houston game
Times Picayune
Last Saturday, three starters spent time nursing injuries on the sideline. The three were the only three seniors. Left tackle Chris McGee, left guard Matt Traina and center Joe Traina are expected to play against Houston, but are still battling pain...
Tulane hoping to improve against Houston
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane had plenty of good and bad in all three phases during its 28-21 victory against Southeastern Louisiana last weekend. The Green Wave (2-1, 1-0 in Conference USA) will need more of the good and less of the bad if it expects to succeed against Houston (2-2, 1-1) in a C-USA game at 5 p.m. today at Cajun Field in Lafayette...
Houston vs. Tulane Capsule
Houston Chronicle
A quick look at how the two teams match up and notes on their previous meetings...
October 7, 2005
Scelfo keeping Tulane together
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
His football team has been nothing short of a vagabond band of gypsies ... displaced, sleeping on floors, existing only due to the kindness of others. He hasn't led his team out of a familiar locker room and onto a true home field this year, and won't for the foreseeable future. Most of them haven't seen home - or what now passes for home - in six weeks. And Tulane head coach Chris Scelfo says they're the fortunate ones...
Future still full of questions for Wave
Times Picayune
For Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson, the odyssey began Sunday morning, Aug. 28, Katrina Minus 1. It began with a get-out-of-town bus trip to Jackson, Miss., with the football team and soccer team, after which the evacuees spent the night on air mattresses in a gym on the campus of Jackson State...
Houston QB has dominated Green Wave
Times Picayune
Kevin Kolb provides more headaches than a Sunday morning in Vegas. In the past two seasons, Houston's electric quarterback peppered Tulane's defense with his misdirections, short passes and long heaves, dominating the Green Wave. The schedule reunites Kolb and 11 angry men 5 p.m. Saturday in Lafayette...
Tulane-UTEP tickets on sale at Ticketmaster
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane announced Thursday tickets for the Green Wave's game against UTEP on Oct. 14 at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Friday game kicks off at 7 p.m. and will be televised live by ESPN...
No matter the score, Tulane wins
Mobile Register
Through all the destruction and devastation, the displacement, confusion, on-the-run decisions and "flurry of chaos" that has been part of everyday life, Tulane athletics director Rick Dickson has also experienced pride, amazement, wonder and strength...
October 6, 2005
Tulane's offense out of sync against SLU
Times Picayune
They couldn't even fake smiles. As Tulane's offensive players departed the field on Saturday, each player glumly stared ahead, even as dozens of fans near the locker room dutifully cheered. Tulane beat Southeastern Louisiana, 28-21, but the Green Wave's offense -- notably its ground game -- was invisible...
Much work ahead for Tulane's athletic director
Times Picayune
Now that Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson has gotten a handle on all but one of the sites for the Green Wave's remaining `home' football games, you'd think he could sit and take a deep breath. Not a chance. For Dickson, there aren't any free moments...
Tulane-Marshall game slated for Mobile
Baton Rouge Advocate
Forced from its city, its school and its stadium by Hurricane Katrina, the Tulane Green Wave will play its fifth home football game of the 2005 season in its fifth different city when they host Conference USA foe Marshall at 6 p.m. on Oct. 29 in Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala...
Tulane's Terranova catches on
Monroe News Star
Tulane receiver Bubba Terranova's four-catch, 120-yard performance in the Green Wave's win over Southeastern Louisiana was a welcome sight. Terranova, for the second straight year, underwent knee surgery during fall camp. The Wave's only senior receiver also caught a 74-yard touchdown pass last Saturday to cap off the biggest game of his college career...
October 5, 2005
Just For Argument's Sake ...
ESPN.com
What passes for normal with the Tulane football team these days? Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo laughed heartily at the question...
Beyond Southern hospitality
Honolulu Advertiser
You have to be specific when you talk about "the football team" at Louisiana Tech these days. Is it the one that practices from 1 to 3 p.m. each week day? Or the one on the field from 4 to 6 p.m? The one that wears blue or the one that you'll find in green?...
Scelfo backing off on practice time
Times Picayune
In Tulane's first practice following three weeks of road games, two of which it was the home team, Green Wave coach Chris Scelfo said it is time to start easing up and preparing for the long haul. Saying he felt his team is beginning to show signs of tiring, Scelfo cut back on Tuesday's workout by about 15 minutes...
Tulane WR Terranova gets chance to sparkle
Baton Rouge Advocate
Bubba Terranova spent the first three years of his Tulane career in the shadows of other wide receivers. But three games into his senior season he is emerging from the shadows and becoming a key playmaker for the Green Wave...
Tulane road warriors fighting fatigue
Monroe News Star
The rigors of being a displaced football team might finally be catching up to Tulane. The Green Wave have been on a physical and emotional roller coaster since Hurricane Katrina hit a little more than a month ago and Chris Scelfo can see the wear and tear. Last Saturday the Green Wave (2-1) was less than sharp in a surprisingly close 28-21 win over Southeastern Louisiana...
October 4, 2005
Tulane to play at Ladd
Mobile Register
Tulane is making a return to Mobile's Ladd-Peebles Stadium, this time as the home team. The Green Wave will play Marshall in a Conference USA matchup here at 6 p.m. on Oct. 29. The game will be televised by College Sports Television (CSTV)...
Tulane will play Marshall in Mobile
Times Picayune
Tulane football will play its Oct. 29 home game in Mobile, Ala., a school source has confirmed. The Green Wave will host Marshall at Ladd-Peebles Stadium at 6 p.m., the first Conference USA meeting between the two teams...
Now's a good time to start believing in Wave's depth, backbone
Times Picayune
Last year, probably, the result would have been a loss. And, truth be told, that likely would've been the case almost every year before that -- six in all -- that Chris Scelfo has been Tulane's football coach. But, somehow, having two punts and an extra point blocked and throwing an interception was only a major inconvenience for the Green Wave, not crippling...
Tulane looks to learn from win
Gannett News Services
Tulane University head football coach Chris Scelfo knew their would be days like Saturday this season. His nomadic Green Wave football team defeated Southeastern Louisiana 28-21, but the win did not come easily...
Tulane comes through on big plays, but offense still lacking
Times Picayune
One week after calling out his offense for not producing enough big plays, Tulane coach Chris Scelfo was handed a slew of them, making huge difference in the outcome of Saturday's game over Southeastern Louisiana...
October 3, 2005
Unconvincing win could help Wave
Times Picayune
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo has said many times that he's never met a bad win. That isn't always the case with fans, and dwelling on the positive after beating Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday, isn't something Tulane's faithful will be doing this week...
October 2, 2005
Tulane defeats SE Louisiana, 28-21
The Associated Press
Lester Ricard threw for 324 yards and two touchdowns as Tulane, displaced by Hurricane Katrina and playing in LSU's Tiger Stadium, defeated Division I-AA Southeastern Louisiana 28-21 Saturday...
Tulane slips past SLU in Tiger Stadium showdown
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane removed the "Homecoming" designation from its game against Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday afternoon at LSU's Tiger Stadium. That didn't stop Lester Ricard from celebrating his return home...
Wave Squeaks By
Times Picayune
If Tulane defensive end Billy Harrison had to play the game over again, he probably wouldn't. A win is a win, he said, but it certainly wasn't the kind of performance Harrison thought was going to produce a victory...
He put the Izzy in dizzy
Times Picayune
After Tulane's 28-21 victory against Southeastern Louisiana, Izzy Route slouched against a locker room wall, his mind spinning like 20-inch rims...
Tigers' den not so comfortable for Wave fans
Times Picayune
It was all Colby Omner - in a camouflage Tulane hat, green slacks, tie, and collared shirt - could do after facing the opening minutes of what should have been his school's homecoming game...
TU awaits invitation from Mobile
Times Picayune
Tulane football is awaiting an offer from Mobile, Ala., to play the Oct. 29 game at Ladd-Peebles Stadium. Representatives from the city, stadium and the GMAC Bowl will decide Tuesday whether or not to offer the stadium to the homeless Green Wave, Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson said...
October 1, 2005
Brown adjusts after hurricane
South Jersey Courier-Post
Tulane University wide receiver Preston Brown hasn't been back to his school's New Orleans campus since Hurricane Katrina battered Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi...
Inside the Tulane-SLU game
Times Picayune
Just like Ricard originally planned, he'll play at Tiger Stadium. The former LSU quarterback transferred to Tulane in 2003, and now he will start in Death Valley - Tulane's home on Saturday against SLU...
Tulane's defense shines, No. 1 in the nation
Times Picayune
Tulane defensive coordinator Eric Schumann's philosophy is very simple: If you can't stop the run, you won't stop the opposing team. During the past two seasons, Tulane's defense against the run was its major weakness. The unit's youth and inexperience during that span made it an easy target...
SLU, Tulane to meet in Tiger Stadium
Baton Rouge Advocate
It was supposed to be a homecoming game where the home team was on the road. It is a football afternoon in Baton Rouge where the team that wears gold also wears green -- not purple -- and a Saturday in Tiger Stadium without the Tigers...
Wave returns to south La.
Gannett News Services
As hard as Tulane head coach Chris Scelfo has tried to establish normalcy for his players in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 season will be remembered as one of transition. The football team has traveled great lengths to even play their season, moving from Jackson, Miss., to Dallas, Texas, and finally Ruston to elude Katrina...
