"Chris Scelfo" is an American football coach, who most recently served as the tight ends coach for the Atlanta Falcons. He served as head coach at Tulane Green Wave football/Tulane from 1998 to 2006, including in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and amassed a 37–57 record. Scelfo is the only Tulane head coach to have won two bowl games. He previously held assistant coaching positions at Marshall Thundering Herd football/Marshall and Georgia Bulldogs football/Georgia.

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It goes much deeper than that.

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It's all we have left. We've lost our homes and our city. Now all we have left is our families and football. In that respect, we have all that we need.

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He left. He quit because he felt he was playing for everybody else. His heart wasn't in it. That's sad because we felt he had a great future here.

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A 2½-hour mental health clinic.

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Our team is going to be ready to play. You are going to be amazed. It is a special group with character and pride. We are going to control what we can control.

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I still think our guys don't know how bad it is. From what I've heard, unless you're on the ground in New Orleans, you can't comprehend what has happened there.

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They've had our number the last couple years. Their quarterback is one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

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I told the team last night this isn't about winning or losing. At the end of the year, our message has to be that we persevered. If we go 11-0 ... if we go 0-11 ... they're not going to know our record. They're going to know we persevered. For the millions of people affected in our environment — the ones who survived — it's going to give them some hope. Because right now there is no hope.

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They know how fortunate they are.

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