Report: Tulane baseball assistant Billy Jones leaves program
Tulane assistant baseball coach Billy Jones is “no longer with” the Green Wave program, according to a Twitter post by D1Baseball.com’s Kendall Rogers Tuesday night.
.@GreenWaveBSB is in the market for a new hitting coach and recruiting guy. Billy Jones is no longer with the program. #Tulane #American
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogersD1) September 27, 2017
Rogers went on to add that the reason for Jones’ departure is “medical issues,” and out of respect for Jones, he would not elaborate.
Jones, a former head coach at Appalachian State, joined Travis Jewett’s staff last year. He has also been an assistant at Oregon State, Arizona State, North Carolina State and Oklahoma State.
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Lenny was involved in college athletics starting in the early 1980s, when he began working Tulane University sporting events while still attending Archbishop Rummel High School. He continued that relationship as a student at Loyola University, where he graduated in 1987. For the next 11 years, Vangilder worked in the sports information offices at Southwestern Louisiana (now UL-Lafayette) and Tulane;…
