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He’s dead to me.

For those of you have been asking, here it is

2023 Baseball Roster.

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Former Vandy WR was at Arizona State, now will finish his career at Northwestern

With Liam Robbins seemingly being out for most of season, let’s hear your predictions for Vanderbilt’s final record and what the administration will decide to do. I’ll go first.

Record: 13-18 (6-12)
Decision: Vanderbilt and Stackhouse “mutually part ways” after the SECT. Vandy hires Pat Kelsey (that’s the dream part for me).

Interested to hear everyone’s predictions.

That fan base was completely demoralized and that gym nearly empty and in less than a year,
Dennis Gates completely turned this around.

On that note, Jerome Tang has done the same at Kansas State in Year 1.

Rough but expected outing. We may have a puncher’s chance in 9 of the next 10.

@Joey Dwyer with this being your old beat, what are your thoughts on this news?

Has now brought in two QB transfers, Spencer Sanders from Oklahoma State and Walker Howard from LSU. Odd considering Jaxon Dart was a big land for them a year ago and while not elite he was very solid and was only a 2nd year player a year ago. Seems odd from a locker room perspective as well as NIL considering they’re spending a lot on 3 QBs when they probably need to really revamp their defense

Jordan Wright played 25 minutes.

Ezra Manjon played 22 minutes.

If he wants to win games, he better put them on the floor for 32+ per night. It’s just dumb at this point.

Florida with 12 points at halftime against A&M. LSU really struggling against Auburn.

Please share your prediction not your opinion. Tell us what you think will happen.

Winthrop's record over two season's before Kelsey's arrival: 25-37
Winthrop's record in Kelsey's first two years there: 34-30

He followed this with four regular season Big South championships and three conference tournament championships in 8 seasons.

Charleston's record over two season's before Kelsey's arrival: 26-24
Charleston's record over Kelsey's first 1.5 season's: 36-16

Currently, he has Charleston at 19-1 and on a 18 game winning streak, with their lone loss of the season coming at North Carolina. They are ranked #18 in the country and just keep on winning. His team's love to shoot the three and they shoot it well.

All this to say, he is a guy who has experience turning around not one, but two programs who weren't in great spots when he took over. If you aren't going for a big name, he is at the top of the board and you hire him as quickly as you can if he's interested.

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Vanderbilt endured foul trouble to Liam Robbins and the short end of the technical foul spectrum to score a 97-84 win over then-No. 15 Arkansas, thanks to a 63-point second half. With Jordan Wright getting healthy and Tyrin Lawrence playing well, do the Commodores have another level in them--and if so, what would it take to make the NCAA tournament? And is officiating bias against coaches and teams a thing? Chris Lee and Luke Wyatt also outline some tentative dates for football facility construction and also take a bunch of mailbag questions.

Marnelle had an INCREDIBLE performance on the road against Arkansas. 31 points and hit every shot in the last minutes of the game.

Unfortunately the ladies lost on a half court buzzer beater, but I wanted to bring attention to the incredible performance that she and the WBB team gave.

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Vanderbilt lost to Alabama in its first game without Liam Robbins, who's out a month or more with a foot injury. Chris Lee and Voice of the Commodores Andrew Allegretta discuss that, who picks up the slack going forward and get into D1 Baseball's preseason Top 25, which has a heavy presence of Vanderbilt opponents.

https://vucommodores.com/gordon-sargent-media-availability/

I wasn't there but passing this along...

Just play for the future and give the 5 freshmen as many minutes as possible. Season is a wash without Robbins and there is no reason for Trey, QMB and Stute to be getting as many minutes as they are.

Paul Lewis in particular should be getting some of Trey’s PT — when Trey isn’t making shots, he is useless.

Three players are getting minutes that they don't deserve, over the freshmen of the future. They must be great in practice, because they suck in games. And, these ppg numbers are skewed in their favor because of the nonconference games, these players ppg is down since SEC play started.


QMB gets 15.7 mpg, and 3.2 ppg. Now, going forward, Stack has no choice here because of the Robbins injury. But, he did before the Robbins injury. Dort should've been getting some of these minutes.

Trey Thomas gets 23.9 mpg and 6.5 ppg. It's absolutely ridiculous that TT gets the minutes he plays. He shouldn't play 10 minutes a game, yet he somehow starts. Lewis should be getting half of his PG minutes and Shelby should be getting half of his SG minutes.

Stute gets 28.1 mpg and 9.9 ppg. This one at least makes some sense, as Stute has been productive as a spot up shooter in the past. But, his shooting percentages have dropped of significantly in SEC play. Dia should be cutting into these minutes.

Now, Colin Smith is stinking up the place too at 16.4 mpg 4.4 ppg. But, he is at least getting minutes that will pay off down the road if he's any good. The other freshmen need to as well.

QMB, TT, and Stute continuing to get the minutes that they are getting with their lack of production just doesn't make any sense.

Offense always looks better when you are making shots. VU made a bunch of shots vs AR. Not doing it tonight. Hopefully that changes last 15 minutes as I like their effort but I was thinking as I was watching the AR game was this the team playing better or simply just shooting better and could they possibly shoot this good even 2/3rds of their remaining. games.

Of course not having Robbins hurts as he helps gives VU space on the perimeter and a dump down option they don’t have for sure as much without him.

Very good coach, very good recruiter, better human being. Answering difficult questions post game in an honest, forthright manner. He handled it as well as you could, realizing there are no easy answers. Impressive.