Tulane football begins homecoming week on a high note

[Harry]

As the Tulane football team heads into its homecoming game against North Texas, it travels the four miles down South Claiborne to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on a high note.

The program already has more wins than it has in any season since 2010, it has the chance to open Conference USA play 2-0 for the first time since 1998, and it appears the team is strengthening each week, correcting mistakes, and seeing that progress in the won-lost column.

But the program found itself having to take the high road, too, from last week's opponent, University of Louisiana at Monroe. Warhawks coach Todd Berry told the media after Tulane won 31-14 on Saturday that he thought the Green Wave wasn’t a “good team.” He took a shot at Tulane in trying to vent some anger about how poorly his team played.

"I've been around some bad teams before, but this one is supposed to be a good team," Berry said of ULM. "Tulane is not very good, and we're worse, so there it is.”

Tulane coach Curtis Johnson took the high road about the negativity from Monroe.

Injury update

“We’re pretty healthy and we got a big win this weekend -- all that does is make the next game more important,” Johnson said. Though there were rumors that quarterback Nick Montana played poorly against ULM because he was injured, Johnson refuted that.

“I think he’s healthy – probably as healthy as he could be in the middle of the season. He’s taken a lot of hits but he played well,” Johnson said.

There is an illness going around the team, however. “The only thing that happened today is Zach Morgan was a little bit sick and Royce LaFrance was out of practice today with the flu so there might be something going down around the locker room – I suggest you guys don’t go down there,” Johnson said.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/2013/10/tulane_football_heads_into_hom.html

[UNT90]

Flu like symptoms??

Good news!!!

[MeanGreenTexan]

Flu like symptoms??

Good news!!!

He's pregnant.

[JKvsHimself]

He's pregnant.

Should we send our congratulations?

This is so exciting.

[UNT90]

He's pregnant.

Players' fault, I'm sure.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Wrong kind of mosquito bite?

I'm sure the Bells of St. Mary's will have rung and healed them all by Game Time. And why not? Don't we want to play them at their best?

Edited October 1, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

[emmitt01]

Flu like symptoms??

Good news!!!

Sand bagging.

[JesseMartin]

As long as there isn't a meningitis outbreak while UNT is in town, it's not worth discussing. Unless they all cough in our players' faces during close contact. Gross.