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December 8th:

Warren Nolan : 47

Net: 52

BPI: 65

Kenpom: 60

Torvik: 59

Evan Miya: 46

TeamRankings: 70

Average Ranking: 57

Are there any additional rankings to track?

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Congratulations on win number 100 in your coaching career!

Use this thread (or not) as players announce they're hitting the portal.

Here's one of Mason's receivers at Middle. Anybody watch them enough to know if we should look at him? Former Auburn recruit.
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Product of a weak SEC schedule, combo’d with it being a down year. Losing Sampson, Bru, and possibly Thornton, multiple depth receivers in the portal as well.

OL is losing Mays, Spraggins, Campbell, and possibly Karic.

DL is losing Pierce, Eason, Thomas, and Simmonds.

Additionally they’re losing Brooks one of their safety’s and will have another year of relying on youth to cover some of the most dynamic players every week of the season.

Also, they’re already behind in the portal, only having 1 commit so far.

Oh and they’re paying 8 million dollars for a Felipe Franks clone.

- I can confirm that Alabama defensive tackle Hunter Osborne finished up his visit today. The 6-foot-4 and 298-pound defensive tackle also visited Virginia, and some have hinted a possible commitment to UVA because of potential PT. I don't believe a decision has been made just yet.

- Another defensive tackle still in mix is Virginia's Michael Diarra. The former Cane Ridge standout visited Vanderbilt a couple of weeks back, and he has also visited Oklahoma State. I've been told that his recruitment could go a little longer due to being a spring graduate. It does seem that Vanderbilt would like to add another defensive tackle through the portal to go along with De"Marion Thomas, Glenn Seabrooks, Yilanan Ouattara, Zaylin Wood, and Aaron Bryant (Texas transfer).

- Ole Miss offensive tackle Kavion Broussard visited this weekend as well. The 6-foot-6 and 290-pound Louisiana native is down to Arkansas and Vanderbilt. He tells VandySports.com that he plans to make a decision this week. He was a 5.7 three-star in the 2023 class. He is a former tight end in high school that has good quickness and athleticism. He has 4 years of eligibility remaining.

- One of the few transfer running back names that I've seen mentioned with Vandy interest is Penn's Malachi Hosley. The 5-foot-10 and 205-pounder is originally from Georgia, and he ran for over 1,000 yards as a sophomore. He has two years of eligibility remaining. I'm not sure how serious Vanderbilt is here, but it's worth mentioning.

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- As for other visitors this week, I'm very confident that Vanderbilt hosted others, but they've been keeping things close to the vest when it comes to the portal.

I can't help but think that TV sports directors sometimes don't understand what their audience wants to see. Such is the case of Matthew McConaughey and Texas. By now we all know he is a Texas superfan. Show him once so we know he is there (as if we actually care) and that is enough. I can somewhat understand the fascination with showing Taylor Swift at the Chiefs game (I don't care about that either). After all, she is probably the most famous and most recognizable entertainer in the world. But McConaughey----enough is enough.

From comments made last night, it appears Dylan Sampson got hurt late in the Vanderbilt game. I thought it was a strange decision for Huepel to keep Sampson and Nico in on running plays in their last possession in Nashville. I recall his last run and thought he got smashed and he went to sidelines.

You had to be slow to believe Indiana and or SMU deserved to be in over any of South Carolina, Ole Miss or Alabama but they did it anyway and many of you agreed. I saw Herby on Gameday roasting the CFP Committee this morning on Gameday and I’m glad he did.

Don’t pick teams on feels, pick them based on how good they were / are. Those were two miserable games because the Committee chose the feels. Indiana beat nobody and SMU couldn’t beat Clempson with the season on the line.

I think they’ll do the right thing next season and if there are 3 loss at large teams in the Playoff, so be it.

TN, SMU or IND. All 3 had terrible schedules and should never have been in the discussion.

I would assume we have another big visit group lined up. Last weekend a lot of names were known by now or at least by time they were already on campus.

I know Pimpton was supposed to be on campus but I wouldn’t be surprised if they got canceled if word is getting out Stowers is coming back.

Hunter Osborne is visiting Vandy today after already completing a visit to Virginia. 6-4 260. 4 star in the 2023 class with offers from every blue blood team.

I've been wanting to do this crowdsourced thread and the Jerry Palm thread nudged me. No idea if it will work. I'll do what I can to keep this running until Selection Sunday, but I will need a lot of help scouring the out of town scores.

Teams to cheer against

• Saint John's - won 72-70 at Providence Fri.
• Northwestern - won 84-64 vs DePaul (H) Sat.
• Iowa - won 95-88 vs Utah (H) Sat.
• UCF - won 88-68 vs. Jacksonville (H) Sat.
• Washington State - won 76-68 vs Northern Iowa (Las Vegas) Sat.
• Arizona - #26 KP won 91-44 over #209 Central Mich (H) Sat.
• Nebraska - Murray State (Honolulu) Sun.
• Indiana - won 75-64 over Chattanooga (H) Sat.
• SMU - won 103-77 at BC Sat.
• UC-Irvine - #61 (KP) lost 70-54 at Duquesne (#201) Sat.
• BYU - won 103-57 over Florida A&M (H) Fri.
• Ohio State - won vs. Kentucky (NYC) Sat.
• Mizzou - Illinois (H) Sun.
• UT - Northwestern St. (H) 12/29
• Creighton - won 86-79 vs Villanova (H) Sat.

Below us (possibly)

• LSU
• Cincinnati
• Loyola
• Colorado - beat Bellarmine (H) 79-55 Sat.
• Nevada - lost 66-64 to #98 Colo St (H). Not a bad result for us actually -- close loss hurts them on the bubble but doesn't change the "quad" much.

(Lower priority -- I could list those above the bubble. Eventually we might want to see them lose to help our seeding. Way too early.)

Sources (linked)

I'll attempt descending order of recency, no guarantees

• Palm
• Bracket Matrix
• Lunardi

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To be disappointed how we played in the 2nd half today, and we WON BY 30!!

CMB is so much better of a coach than Stack and Drew. I had forgotten how fun good basketball is.

We won't really know how good we are until SEC play starts, but I am really looking forward to our SEC games, instead of dreading them.

Thanks CMB for making hoops fun again on West End!!

Anchor Down!⚓️👇

In reality - what is the practical difference between the "driving iron" and the equivalent "game improvement long iron" besides offset? They often seem similarly constructed (thin face, hollow, some with foam, etc..) Is it which shafts they're designed to take?

What, for example, would the expected difference really be between the a 20 degree 4 game improvement iron and a utility 3 iron at 20 degrees?

I am looking at creating a driving iron from my 20* 4 iron, as I already have a 4 hybrid that is 21* from the same set. It would be an off the tee only club.

My 4 iron is already longer than the Srixon MKII utility 3 iron standard length due to mine being +0.5in. I speced it this way because they are shared brands and technologies for comparison in the table below.

I want to put a hybrid length graphite shaft in it, but will the head being heavier make the tip too soft?

This guy is a nightmare to listen to.

Please, Vanderbilt, end this.

Tennessee is about to get run in Columbus.

Brandon is there covering for us.

O-H…

Bonus question I
Who will you be pulling for in the UT - OSU game?

Bonus question II
What percentage of the fans in The Horseshoe Saturday night will be pulling for the Vols?

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Was not expecting this arc to ever happen. It’s also stupid to offer an 8th grader. And since when did 8th grade have a gpa 😂

Can someone explain to me again why Will Muschamp can't work as a Vanderbilt football coach or analyst?

Thanks in advance.