NEW ORLEANS—In one of the biggest accomplishments of his life, Angus Lind convinced a group of LSU fans in the spring of 2002 to help save Tulane football. Dozens of folks, some even wearing the purple-and-gold gear of Tulane’s in-state rival, stood along St. Charles Avenue holding signs that read, “Honk if you love Tulane!”
“Twenty years later, who’d a thunk it?” says Lind, a 78-year-old longtime Green Wave supporter and a former sportswriter for The Times Picayune. “Now, people are talking crazy talk about us going to a big bowl game!”
On the 20-year anniversary of Tulane’s attempt to completely shutter its football program or, at the very least, demote it to Division III, the No. 17 Green Wave is having one of its best seasons in the modern era of college football.
