Tulane hiring Will Hall as new head coach, replacing Jon Sumrall
Tulane is hiring Will Hall as the team’s new head coach, per On3’s Pete Nakos. Hall spent the 2025 season as the passing game coordinator for the Green Wave.
Hall will replace the outgoing Jon Sumrall, who will take over the Florida Gators upon season’s end. Tulane is the No. 11 seed in the College Football Playoff and will play at No. 6 Ole Miss.
Hall became the target after going after LSU DC Blake Baker. However, Baker opted to stay at LSU under new coach Lane Kiffin.
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.
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.
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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.
Will Hall will replace Jon Sumrall as Tulane head coach
After leading Tulane to a 34–21 victory over North Texas in the American Conference Championship on Friday night, Sumrall made sure everyone understood why staying on the sideline, even after accepting the Florida job, was the only option in his mind.
“I’ve said it a lot. I think just as important, if not more important than how you start at a place, it’s how you finish,” Sumrall shared postgame. “I’m forever indebted to Tulane. I was an assistant coach here over a decade ago. It’s been a complete privilege and honor for me to be the head football coach here.
“And you know, I think in my introductory press conference two years ago I said, ‘We’re going to win the conference championship. We’re gonna go to the College Football Playoff.’ And I also said, ‘We’re going to win it,’ so we got work to do. Job’s not done.”