Rusty Whitt, who's been a Power 5 strength and conditioning coach, will rejoin Jon Sumrall to head up Tulane's strength and conditioning program in the Green Wave's football program, sources told FootballScoop Sunday.
Previously atop the strength systems at both Army-West Point under Jeff Monken as well as at Texas Tech, Whitt spent the past four years running the show in Troy's strength program.
He helped Sumrall and the Trojans win a combined 23 games and SunBelt title the past two years.
Previously, Kurt Hester, FootballScoop's reigning strength coach of the year, departed Tulane to remain heading up the strength program for Willie Fritz.
A former Special Forces Sergeant in the U.S. Army, Whitt also logged a half-dozen seasons atop the strength program for the Louisiana Cajuns.
Whitt, a former graduate assistant at the University of Texas, also has worked at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.