For those that don’t know, former CBJ Offensive Coordinator Des Kitchings is the new OC under Tony Elliott at Virginia.

Last year (which was also Bronco Mendenhall’s last year before an abrupt retirement), UVA was one of the nation’s surprisingly scorching offenses, boasting a record-setting QB in Brennan Armstrong, and 3 highly-productive receivers. They put up massive points.

Even with Mendenhall leaving, Elliott won multiple nattys as Clemson’s OC, so you’d figure with Armstrong and all his wideouts returning this year, the Wahoos would keep that train rolling.

Enter Kitchings and his $#!+ play-calling.

Currently down 16-0 to mighty Syracuse, UVA has already been outscored 40-17 the last couple weeks against Illinois and Old Dominion.

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Doubt Kitchings lasts the season.

CBJ & staff, similar to Lea, proved themselves GREAT talent evaluators of diamond-in-the-rough talents.

But my oh my are they terrible game-day coaches.

It’s Commodore Wednesday!

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My apologies, I would have sworn I posted this earlier in the week but I didn't. Please get your questions in and I'll probably publish answers on Saturday morning.

Oh, and if you missed last week's, you missed your subtle heads-up on AJ Swann's starting vs. NIU.

Here you go…

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Is something wrong with him?

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I gave Lea hell last year. Shoot, I was giving him hell during the NIU game. A lot of people in here have said he takes after his coach Deuce Johnson and coaches not to lose instead of to win.

Lost in the euphoria of A.J. Swann looking like the QB we've all been waiting for, is the fact that Lea was VERY un-Johnson like against NIU.

He benched his starting QB that he took to SEC media days in the fourth game of the season. To start a true freshman. On the road. VERY un-Duece like.

On 4 and 4, down 14 points, on the road, in FG range, midway through the 3rd quarter, what's Lea do? Deuce, and honestly, probably most coaches in that situation, probably kicks the FG. Lea, showing big balls, lets his true freshman QB go for it. TD, and with it, a game changing play.

Point being, Mason was a learning on the job coach that frankly never learned. Lea, well he is a learning on the job coach too. But, apparently, he's figuring this coaching thing out.

I think I may finally be all in on Lea.

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wow...

Huge fan!

Have to give Kevo some props he made a great play on that 4th down play. He split that double team and made that tackle best defense play that I have seen by Vandy in a while.

Madison Greene

Or just want to see it again!!

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Chris Lee and Andrew Allegretta discuss AJ Swann's remarkable performance in a win at Northern Illinois, as well as a number of other true and redshirt freshmen who are making huge impacts for Vanderbilt football.

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The former Virginia commit recently picked up an offer from Vandy back on September 7th. The three-star told me he's very interested in Vandy and is planning to take an official visit with the Commodores. No date is set yet.

UPDATE: Lee told me he has a visit scheduled with Georgia Tech on October 8th. Obviously, Geoff Collins may not be the head coach by then, so that will be interesting to follow

Sorry, meant to have that out earlier but yard work took my entire day today.

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Vanderbilt was the first offer for Hermann back on September 9th. Ohio has since offered while Iowa State, Iowa, Michigan State, and Wisconsin are also expressing interest. Hermann said he's planning to visit Vandy on October 8th when the Commodores host Ole Miss. He also told me he is planning to return later in the winter for an official visit with the Commodores.

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Sorry to all of the atheists in here, but are we witnessing the end times?

Hell must have frozen over. Pigs must be flying. Dogs and cats must be getting along.

I mean, Vanderbilt is 3-1. Duke, Kansas, and Rutgers are all 3-0. For the mathmatically challenged, that's a combined 12-1, by some of the biggest historically awful college football programs of all time! This has to be the end of the world, doesn't it??

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I just searched YouTube and couldn’t find anything other than an NIU based clip. Shouldn’t an SEC school have highlights of a huge win on YouTube? Or am I just being picky?

You probably don’t know this (why would you?), but I design my own exercise shirts. They‘re generally silly: “Here’s a quarter, please call Ric Flair;” “Jolene, I’m begging of you please don’t take my Spam;” “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be lawyers;” “Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting;” and so on. (I like dad jokes and puns. It’s why my office geckos are Art Gecko, David Geckham (a contribution from a member of the forum), and Leggo my Gecko.)

One of my plain exercise shirts just bit the dust, so I’m about to do another one. Any thoughts on lyrics or quotes I can morph into an equally silly shirt?

I know we play them in a few weeks.

Whether you like him or not, he has a way of jabbing GT in the end of this video.