While Tulane's record-setting 2025 squad just capped its season with Saturday's loss at Ole Miss in the opening round of the College Football Playoff, the Green Wave's future leader, Will Hall, is seeking to assemble the 2026 coaching staff.
And sources tell FootballScoop that Hall is closing in on a key coordinator hire.
Tulane is working to bring Chris Forestier into the program as its special teams coordinator, sources tell FootballScoop.
Forestier is finishing his second season on Steve Sarkisian's Texas Longhorns staff as a senior analyst working with Longhorns special teams coordinator Jeff Banks.
Already, Forestier owns deep experience coaching in the state of Louisiana. In addition to seven seasons as a special teams assistant at LSU under both Ed Orgeron and Brian Kelly, Forestier also served a year as a graduate assistant coach at Northwestern State in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
He worked two seasons at Houston as a special teams analyst and was briefly the special teams coordinator for Football Championship Subdivision program Arkansas-Pine Bluff before landing his role on Sarkisian's Longhorns staff.
Hall emerged as the choice to lead Tulane into the future as the program sought to find a new head coach for the second time since 2023.
Willie Fritz departed Tulane for the top job at Houston after the 2023 season, and Jon Sumrall sustained and elevated Fritz's success when he lifted the Green Wave to an 12-1 season this year that included the program's first-ever CFP appearance as the Playoff's No. 11 seed.
Sumrall was hired away earlier this month by the University of Florida but has retained his coaching status atop the Tulane program for the duration of its CFP run.