Tulane's fabulous 2022 football season did have one drawback. See how the Wave dealt with it.

ARLINGTON, Texas — When Tulane opens against South Alabama on Sept. 2, Willie Fritz will be one of the few Green Wave coaches in the same role as a year ago.
Although Joshua Christian-Young will coach the safeties for a second consecutive season, six of 10 game-day assistants are new and three others have different assignments in by far the largest transition during Fritz’s eight years in New Orleans. The mass assistant turnover is the product of success — Tulane’s ninth-place ranking in the final Associated Press poll made numerous staff members more attractive than ever — and some unexpected decisions.
“We’ve got an outstanding staff,” Fritz said Tuesday at American Athletic Conference media days. “The thing that’s good is the NCAA lets you do a lot of stuff in the summer. Ten years ago, you weren’t able to do anything (coaching wise until day one of preseason camp). Now you can do all sorts of drills with techniques and fundamentals, so the (coach) gets to implement his philosophy.”
Here's a summary of the offseason changes:
• Shiel Wood arrived from Troy just before the start of spring practice to be the new defensive coordinator after Chris Hampton left for the same role at Oregon and his first replacement, Lance Guidry, bolted for Miami less than a month into his Tulane tenure. Wood then took over the role of linebackers coach when Mike Mutz, a charter Fritz assistant with the Wave, became defensive coordinator at Stephen F. Austin early in spring drills.
• Longtime tight ends coach Slade Nagle, who took over the play-calling duties from former offensive coordinator Jim Svoboda before the start of last season, earned a promotion to offensive coordinator in January and also will coach the quarterbacks. Svoboda resigned soon afterward.
• Two former Saints assistants joined the staff. Dan Roushar, who was with New Orleans from 2015-22, became the Wave’s offensive line coach in February after Eman Naghavi left for Houston. Greg McMahon, special-teams coordinator for the Saints from 2008-16 and LSU from 2018-21, accepted the same role at Tulane in May, replacing Robby Discher, who left in February for Illinois.
• Tulane also picked up a pair of assistants from LSU. Gerald Chatman is the new defensive line coach, arriving after spring drills when predecessor Travian Robertson left for South Carolina, his alma mater. Chatman joined Brian Kelly’s staff as a defensive analyst in January, having made the same move to Tulane from LSU in January 2022 before departing two months later for Colorado, where he eventually was named co-defensive coordinator at midseason by interim coach Mike Sanford before the entire staff was fired at the end of the year.
Carter Sheridan, an offensive analyst with LSU, joined Fritz’s staff earlier this month as running backs coach. That opening developed because former Tulane wide receivers coach John McMenamin resigned suddenly to spend more time with his family, prompting second-year assistant Derrick Sherman to shift from running backs coach to replace him.
“We’ve got some high-intensity coaches who are just very passionate about their jobs,” Tulane quarterback Michael Pratt said. “Everybody has warmed up to all the new guys and really embraced them. I’m thrilled with coach Nagle. He’s the only guy on the offensive staff who was here when I first got to Tulane, and he’s always been a guy I watched film with and just talked ball with.”
• The two remaining changes were in the secondary. Former Wofford co-defensive coordinator Rob Greene arrived in March midway through spring drills and will coach the nickelbacks. J.J. McCleskey, who coached Tulane defensive backs from 2018-21 but was demoted to analyst in 2022, is back in his old role as a full-time assistant and will work with the cornerbacks.
The reconfiguration gives Tulane three defensive backs coaches.
“It’s unusual, but some of that ties into recruiting,” Fritz said. “All three of them are really good recruiters. Josh is our lead coach in tackling. Rod is our lead coach in takeaways. He just did a presentation yesterday that was outstanding. J.J. is our effort coach, so we really put a premium defensively in those three areas.”
Lagniappe
Tyler Spotts-Orgeron, an offensive assistant a year ago, will work with the tight ends as a quality control coach but will not be one of the 10 primary assistants the NCAA allows. Nagle will retain the titular role of tight ends coach in addition to his other duties. … Most of the assistants are new, but Fritz is the dean of AAC coaches by two years over Rice’s Mike Bloomgren. … Fritz said the new term for nickelback under Wood would be anchor.