Video: Tulane opens spring football practice
NEW ORLEANS – It was just 59 days ago that Tulane closed out its 2019 season with a resounding second-half comeback to defeat Southern Miss 30-13 in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.
The Green Wave returned to the practice field Tuesday morning to begin work on 2020.
It will have to replace a two-year starter at quarterback Justin McMillan. Keon Howard, who was McMillan’s backup last year, and incoming freshman Michael Pratt worked with the first two units on Tuesday.
Pratt, who enrolled in January after signing with the Green Wave in December out of Deerfield Beach (Florida) High School, was one of two quarterback signees in the 2020 recruiting class, joining Country Day’s Justin Ibieta, who will enroll this summer.
Tuesday was also the first time on the practice field in a Tulane uniform for Patterson native and Oklahoma graduate transfer Mykel Jones. The one-time four-star prospect graduated from OU in December and enrolled at Tulane in January.
Tulane will practice primarily on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Its spring game is scheduled for March 28.
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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;…
