The Tulane Green Wave will look to answer a lot of questions in their first spring scrimmage.
The Tulane Green Wave football team will conduct their first real scrimmage of spring camp this Saturday as the final weeks of camp wind down. With just two more practice sessions next week ahead of the Spring Game on April 18, the Green Wave will have a lot to evaluate and look at in the first glimpse this weekend. This has been a pretty valuable spring camp to watch, and it’s a unique one at that for the first time in years knowing that all players who take the field for the final four outings will be on the roster competing in fall camp with the elimination of the second portal window following spring.
When the practice sessions first started, it was clear that they were trying to figure out an identity under new head coach Will Hall. That’s really started to break through in the past week as the team starts to take form. It’s clear that the carryover of the coaching staff and the considerable number of returning players from last season has been impactful to a strong start. That strong start finally translated into some real urgency and competitiveness this last week to go along with the ramping up of physicality at practices.
Fights aren’t exactly something that will tell too much about a team, but you almost want to see them in the spring in a controlled sense. It means that players are really in the game and want it. It took a few weeks for the offense and defense to go at each other a bit, but it was because of playmaking on the field. Not because the coaches are losing control of the players; quite opposite.
They’ve come when one side of the ball is dominating, mainly during 11-on-11 sessions that are sprinkled throughout practice. On Saturday, they’ll be 11-on-11 in a real scrimmage setting. It’ll illuminate a lot about the trenches in particular. Tulane’s defensive line is known for rotating, so much so that it’s been hard to tell who will be the starting three – or four, if you count Bandit.
The quarterback competition has been a lot of equal reps. It’ll be curious to see if there are any quarterbacks getting notable time on Saturday, and how all of them are ramping up ahead of the spring game. There has yet to be a spring game that’s coincided with a quarterback competition and had a strong offensive showing. This year is shaping up to be a bit different under Hall and his staff. Saturday will tell a lot about what this team wants to be next season and how they’re working towards that.