Getting this up early since I will be busy until close to gametime.

This will be the official game thread

I swear I did not write this article but it is crystal clear that people other than us fans see the problem. I would love to hear some takes on this. Especially the sunshine pumpers.

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Is he coming here?

Coming soon. Got a few names. Will report back.

I need to know where your head's at, my dudes?

That was a Tim Corbin MASTERCLASS in how you beat that ass. Some great pitching and defense, clutch on offense and on the mound and took all three from Gatuh.

Sully is a dick.

Takeaways:

-I really like how Corbin handled the staff this weekend. JD to Miller Green to Hawks could be a really nice Friday night combo. Bowker to Green to Kranzell to Fennell was a nice way to go Saturday. Sunday was kind of hold on for dear life and we did it with the bats.

-Brodie found a way to impact the game again and even though he's struggling to break through at the moment had a monster defensive play and scored 3 runs, all of which were meaningful in the win.

-Barczi showed out this weekend with a game winning 9th inning HR in Game 2 and 3-5 with 2 RBIs and a run scored today.

-Rustan Rigdon was a man today. Watch out boys, we got a good one. He's not built like a balloon animal but dude looks like a big league hitter to me. He needs to get stronger but that guy squares it up and drives the ball very well. Nice to see his first homerun of his career today (I missed so if anybody has the highlight on twitter, that'd be great).

-Riley Nelson is the best hitter on the team. Great portal pickup, he's just solid and has some pop.

@DoreFan @WorldsStrongestVANDYFAN @Hardcoredore @wkudore

How we feeling, Family?

Are we back? What did you like this weekend? What can we continue to get better at?

Lastly, what did Holcomb do? Have a temper tantrum? Not run out a fly ball? Something may have happened as I was a little surprised not to see him play at UF. He may be on the way out but I hope not, he has potential.

Big episode 310 coming up, me and Trevor will be recording tomorrow (Tuesday) night. We will preview the Vanderbilt Spring Game coming up this Saturday, talk about the tailgate, recap portal activity, and talk about Vanderbilt's sweep over Florida.

Drop any thoughts/questions you have across all 3 sports ⤵️

What an unreal team and coach.

If you didn't watch much of them, it's pretty simple. They have 3 dynamic guards who average 45 pts a game together. And 3 big men, 2 of which do everything well.

If I was to make a team of Vandy players from the past to try and model a team like the Gators I would do this:

Darius Garland
Scott Pippen, Jr
Shan Foster
Damian Jones
Matt Freije

Off the bench:

Dan Langhi
Luke Kornet
Derrick Byers
Jeff Taylor

All of their guys can do it all. None of them were 5 star recruits from what I understand.

Hey yall hate to come on here asking for tickets but I have 2 friends I’m trying to get to their first ever Vandyboys game and Vandy has already sold out their 50 student tickets (I only have one for myself). We’re all broke college kids so just wanted to see if we could save a bit of money lol.

Would be greatly appreciated if anyone has tickets for sale, shoot me a DM if you do!

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We have some stiff competition, but we have to win some of these if we want to get to where we all want to be. Slightly concerned about his size and getting his shot off (5'10") at this level but he's a definite take.

BELOW

TLDR: I don't care that he left. Not a huge loss of human capital. I am excited about our additions.

Hello everyone,

Carey committed to our greatest enemy and had some choice words for us on his way out. My opinion is this: I don't care. Back during my era, I may have felt a type of way. I will not bore you with a long discussion of how everything is transactional now. It is like saying the sky is blue - everyone knows that. The main reason that I do not care is that I do not see his departure as a devastating loss. Sure, he headbutted the pad under the basket and brought some energy, but a 6'8 player with Dwight Howard's skill set is not something that can take this team farther than it went last year. He is not particularly fast, cannot defend a high ball screen when he switches on a guard, and cannot shoot. I am not saying he is without value. He did some wonderful things in rebounding, defense, and getting tough buckets on offense. But, in my opinion, he is not worth getting all up in arms about. If he starts for UT, that is a good sign for us. We have Glock, who plays the same position as Carey, and I truly believe Glock is a standard deviation better than Carey - especially in our offense. Vandy has money now. We got 2 6'10+ transfers with experience and another 6'11 freshman coming in. I have never said this in the history of my fandom as a VU fan, but in this situation, we aren't rebuilding. We are reloading. The DOW and S&P are crashing, but the Vandy stock is rising. Buy now.

We will get our scoring from the wings, so I'm not worried. But, for those of you who are "unimpressed"...


Florida's 6'10 starting center in the final four, Reuben Cheinyelu, averaged 6 ppg and 6 rpg this year.

UTjr's 6'11 starting center, Felix Okpara, had 7 ppg and 6 rpg.

Alabama's 6'11 starting center, Clifford Omoruyi, had 8 ppg and 6 rpg.

Kentucky's 6'10 starting center, Amari Williams, had 11 ppg and 8 rpg.

None of these season averages are anything special. They fulfilled a role on teams that generally got most of their scoring from the wings. These guys we signed are more than equipped to do the same for us, imo. Especially since they will be freeing up Glock to do other things.

These are two significant signings, don't let their mediocre ppg averages make you forget why they were signed, to give us size, bodies, rebounding, and defense in the post.

The stat guru Warren Nolan currently predicts that Vandy will end the regular season at
40-16 overall
18-12 SEC
RPI 8
SOS 2
Quad 1 wins 20 [highest in the country]

If 'ol Warren is right then I believe we'll be a National Seed.

Down here working all week, will have limited access to phone but have some free time to kill so fire away with random masters or Augusta national questions

As always, SEC baseball was very entertaining this past weekend. The Top 5 in Power Rankings are now, as Fat Elvis would say, all shook up.

Last week, TN was 1a, AR 1b, GA 3, LSU 4, and TX 5.
That was all WRONG!

Now it's:
1. Arkansass
2. LAssU
3. TEXass
4. Tennassee
5. Georgia..sssssssss

So many asses for so few spots as Ole Mass lands at #6 again
The rest is more stable:
7a. Auburn
7b. VANDY
9. Bama
10. Oklahoma
11. Kentucky
12. A&M
13. Florida
14. Miss State
15. South Carolina
57. Missouri [somehow fell 12 spots]

Fear not if you don't like these rankings, they'll change soon enough as there are 6 weeks still to go.

JUCO WR Tre Richardson commits to the Dores. Good speed.

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We've got 4 teams tied at the top at 8-1 and another at 7-2. We also have 4 teams at 1-8 and another 0-9. Can't get more lopsided than that.

Here's my current power ranking:
1a. Tennessee
1b. Arkansas [to see is to believe]
3. Georgia
4 LSU
5. Texas
6. Ole Miss
7. Alabama
8. Oklahoma
9a. Auburn
9b. Vandy [only because Auburn won our series, lucky though it was]
11. Kentucky
12. Florida
13. Miss State
14. A&M
15. Carolina [Maineri probably wishes he hadn't un-retired]
45. Missouri

Note that we are unlucky with the schedule in that we don't play #13, 15, or 45. That's somewhat balanced out by playing #4 and 5.

There's several series this weekend that could shake things up a bit.

Thursday series:
LSU at Oklahoma [we go to Oklahoma, otherwise known as the Nothing Sooner State, next weekend]
Oklahoma has some good pitching and are decent offensively. This mostly depends on LSU's starters who are sometimes good/sometimes bad. LSU has played the weakest schedule to date in the SEC [and the nation for that matter] and may have flaws that have yet to surface as a result. This is a coin flip and the coin says "buffalo", not "pelican". Mild upset with Okie taking the series 2-1.
[There were buffalo in Oklahoma weren't there? I do know there are pelicans on the bayou. Maybe I should substitute "Cherokee" for "buffalo" because I know for a fact (from my 12th cousin Little Running Turtle .. he may be slow but he always gets to where he's going -- usually the Reservation liquor store) the Cherokee were imprisoned there by none other than fellow Tennessean Andrew Jackson, having been removed from their ancestral home in Tennessee. How's that for irony?]

Laughers:
Missouri goes to Arkansas. Oh...my...gosh. Pencil in Arkie at 11-1. Just a matter of how many HRs they hit. Kozeal alone will hit 5.

A&M goes to Tennessee. Oh...my...gosh. Pencil in UTjr at 11-1.
[Although there is an ouside chance Laviolette and The Bear could go off and hit 6 HRs in one game and they might win it, but only by a score of 18-17 or such.]
Before the season started this was looked on as a big, big, big series. But then the universe imploded in College Station/Bryan, most likely because they hired the wrong coach at the wrong place at the wrong time. Sometimes that happens [e.g., Drew, Stackhouse.]

Big series:
There's only 2.
Georgia at Texas. Bombs away in Austin; Texas might hold them to less than 4 HRs a game, but probably not. I'd give this to Georgia 2-1
Alabama at Auburn. Should be a good series and Auburn might just pull out a series win at home. But I think not; Bama 2-1.

Other series:
Vandy at Florida .... in the old days this was a big series no matter when it was played; must win series for Vandy; must win series for Florida; either could sweep or be swept. It's that iffy. I'll go Dores 2-1.

So shall it be written, so shall it be done.
I have 0.5% confidence that all this will come to pass.

We will be using this thread for all portal announcements, rumors, and speculations. It is (not) the most wonderful time of the year.

by Alex Kurbegov (@Anchordown0714)

by George Barclay (@Gbarks24)

I know we have some fans that are madder than hornets that we aren’t the best baseball program in the country anymore but wining a series in Gainesville is big.

How ya feelin’, Fam?