It is time to finally overhaul the Athletic Department. The football and basketball programs are a mess. Time to get serious if you really want to make the Athletic Experience at VU great and put a good product out there with these new facilities.
Don't need to hear about how good Golf and Tennis are. Those are country club sports and Vanderbilt has a natural advantage there. Football and Basketball (and to a lesser degree baseball) drive your entire Athletic brand reputation. It makes no sense to get people to invest in a vision if you don't think you have the best leadership possible in Athletics.
Its time to get an experienced, excellent AD (and support staff) to fully analyze today's landscape with NIL and the portal. Crate a strategy to use it and focus it on Football and Basketball. Hire excellent/innovative coaches. Fight the university for resources for these coaches. Don't accept the Vanderbilt way and push the university administration to do what it takes to be great. Someone who will really invest in winning and won't sit back and hope results come. Someone who can't sleep at night if they watched what happened in our stadiums against Auburn and Presbyterian. Its a terrible athletic environment on gameday.
Don't need to hear about how good Golf and Tennis are. Those are country club sports and Vanderbilt has a natural advantage there. Football and Basketball (and to a lesser degree baseball) drive your entire Athletic brand reputation. It makes no sense to get people to invest in a vision if you don't think you have the best leadership possible in Athletics.
Its time to get an experienced, excellent AD (and support staff) to fully analyze today's landscape with NIL and the portal. Crate a strategy to use it and focus it on Football and Basketball. Hire excellent/innovative coaches. Fight the university for resources for these coaches. Don't accept the Vanderbilt way and push the university administration to do what it takes to be great. Someone who will really invest in winning and won't sit back and hope results come. Someone who can't sleep at night if they watched what happened in our stadiums against Auburn and Presbyterian. Its a terrible athletic environment on gameday.
