Tulane kicked off the first day of spring practice on Friday at Yulman Stadium and things are much different for the team then they were at this same time last year.
The Green Wave are heading into their second season under head coach Willie Fritz, and with a large portion of last year's roster returning, the team hopes to use the spring as an opportunity to build on what it accomplished last year.
"(It's a) night and day difference," said Fritz. "Guys understand what we're looking for, there's probably only five or six guys that had problems with what we were doing and they were the new guys.