The collapse under Will Hall has been staggering. One year after an 11-win season and a College Football Playoff appearance, Tulane is 4-5, and the program just suffered a 60-10 Homecoming humiliation against Tulsa, the largest conference defeat in program history and Tulane’s worst home loss since 2012. Tulsa led 46-0 before Tulane scored a point, outgained the Wave 562-204, and Tulane’s lone touchdown came with one second remaining.

This is part of a season-long regression on both sides of the football. Tulane currently ranks 118th nationally in total offense, 114th in scoring offense, 130th in total defense and 134th in rushing defense, an extraordinary decline for a program that entered this season coming off four consecutive conference championship appearances. The roster management has also failed to replace what was lost, with TransferPortl tracking 27 outgoing transfers against only 20 incoming players in the 2026 cycle.

Hall’s broader FBS record offers little reason to believe patience will reverse this trajectory: he is now 18-35 as an FBS head coach, with only one winning season, a 7-6 campaign at Southern Miss in 2022. Tulane cannot afford to wait until the offseason while other programs enter the coaching market, interview the strongest candidates and begin building staffs and recruiting classes. We watched Jon Sumrall leave for Florida last year, and allowing another coaching cycle to develop around us only makes the eventual search more difficult.

David Harris called the 60-10 defeat “unacceptable” but publicly chose to continue toward the Rice game rather than make an immediate change. If the athletic department will not act after a defeat of this magnitude, those who care about the future of Tulane Football need to make their concerns unmistakably clear directly to President Michael Fitts: the program cannot afford another month of deterioration while the rest of college football moves forward.