When Mack Brown returns to Tulane for the first time since 1987, he will walk through the James W. Wilson Jr. Center, a three-story building the football coach helped design before the $7.2 million project was completed in 1990.
Before then, Brown had an office inside a trailer with only one film projector, and the Tulane athletic facilities weren't anything like they are now.
"As bad as those years were," Brown said about his three seasons coaching the Green Wave, "it really helped me so much more than if as a young assistant I would have (gone to a school) where it was easy to win.