{"id":337319,"date":"2025-12-08T17:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/337319\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:28:14","slug":"tulane-hiring-will-hall-as-new-head-coach-replacing-jon-sumrall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/337319\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulane hiring Will Hall as new head coach, replacing Jon Sumrall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tulane<\/a> is hiring Will Hall<\/a> as the team\u2019s new head coach, per On3\u2019s Pete Nakos. Hall spent the 2025 season as the passing game coordinator for the Green Wave.<\/p>\n

Hall will replace the outgoing Jon Sumrall<\/a>, who will take over the Florida Gators<\/a> upon season\u2019s end. Tulane is the No. 11 seed in the College Football Playoff<\/a> and will play at No. 6 Ole Miss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hall became the target after going after LSU<\/a> DC Blake Baker<\/a>. However, Baker opted to stay at LSU under new coach Lane Kiffin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hall has previous head coaching experience, having coach West Alabama (2011-13), West Georgia (2014-16) and Southern Miss (2021-24). He is 70-50 as a head coach but is coming off a less than stellar tenure with Southern Miss.<\/p>\n

With the Golden Eagles, Hall was 7-6 in Year 2, getting them to a Lending Tree Bowl win. However, he went 4-15 in his final two seasons and was fired after a 1-6 start in 2024.<\/p>\n

But with Sumrall off to the SEC, Tulane made the decision to internally promote Hall to head coach. Under Hall, Tulane QB Jake Retzlaff had a solid season: 2,862 yards, 14 touchdowns, six interceptions, a 62.4% completion percentage, 610 rushing yards and 16 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Will Hall will replace Jon Sumrall as Tulane head coach<\/p>\n

After leading\u00a0Tulane<\/a>\u00a0to a 34\u201321 victory over\u00a0North Texas<\/a>\u00a0in the American Conference Championship on Friday night, Sumrall made sure everyone understood why staying on the sideline, even after accepting the\u00a0Florida\u00a0job, was the only option in his mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said it a lot. I think just as important, if not more important than how you start at a place, it\u2019s how you finish,\u201d\u00a0Sumrall shared postgame<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m forever indebted to Tulane. I was an assistant coach here over a decade ago. It\u2019s been a complete privilege and honor for me to be the head football coach here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you know, I think in my introductory press conference two years ago I said, \u2018We\u2019re going to win the conference championship. We\u2019re gonna go to the\u00a0College Football Playoff<\/a>.\u2019 And I also said, \u2018We\u2019re going to win it,\u2019 so we got work to do. Job\u2019s not done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tulane is hiring Will Hall as the team\u2019s new head coach, per On3\u2019s Pete Nakos. Hall spent the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,170029],"class_list":["post-337319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-will-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}