Getting an a$$ kicking

Are we only signing Longwell tomorrow? Any transfers? Do we even have any more room?

7:30 pm on SEC Network Tuesday night

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Is C.M. Newton a good comp for Jerry Stackhouse at Vanderbilt? What would a 10-year Stackhouse tenure at Vandy look like? We hit those topics and also give some early takeaways from Friday's baseball media session with Tim Corbin.

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A little bit about Hoops, of course, but a lot about the academic side of "Q's" life experience, in particular, at VU.

Who here has been to a Hawks game and can share some tips? Advice on hotels/parking near State Farm Arena as well as how to get good tickets?

Listening to the Cover 2 podcast discussing overrated teams as they relate to pre season rankings and this fact came up. In the BCS Era only two teams have never been ranked in the pre season top 25…….













Vandy and Duke.

He even addresses his unblocking of fans towards the end.

That halftime speech and game plan was one of your best efforts.

In case you missed it yesterday former gridiron Star Oren Burks saw action in the 49ers game.
Very nice to see him still in the game, impressive young man at VU.

Really happy for the VU women -----their 1st SEC win !! Ciaja Harbison. WOW. An unbelievable game with 41 points. Hopefully more wins to come. I think Coach Ralph is the real deal and will build a strong program.

Getting cooked on ESPN right now. His man has scored 20 on him and the 2nd half just started

That game defined Myles Stute. All show, zero character. Missed key rebounds. Missed key shots. Ran his mouth the whole time and took the loss.

You can’t win with guys like him. I hope he transfers.

We either will catch AL while they are really struggling or serve as “road kill” for the Crimsom Tide as they take out their frustrations on the Dores.

Very young team. Can struggle versus veteran team with more physically mature players. May be “hitting a wall” a little.

Stacks peer group of SEC basketball programs has only a few mediocre or truly "bad" coaches- and even most of those coaches - considered to be on the real hot seat - have excellent track records of success in college basketball.

He's simply outworked, out-recruited and outlearned by the majority of his peer group. It's not new. There are only a very few programs in SEC that you can say has a worse trajectory than Vanderbilt right now.

If you haven't figured what it takes to win consistently in the SEC in FOUR years, you're simply not going to get it.

The work it takes to get to a non-mediocre level is beyond what Stack is willing to put in, IMO. I'd love to be wrong, but this was evident by year 2. He's a smart guy - but it takes WAY more than that. Think about all the previously uber-successful coaches who fail once they get in the SEC.

I don't think it was ever supposed to come to this when Turner hired him - but we're here now - and the sooner we move on, the better upward trajectory we'll see. If we go north of 7-11 this year or even 9-9 next year, I'll come back and eat crow.

16-43 (.271%) SEC fwiw

One question I have been asking myself is why do we not have better talent in the 4th year of Stack’s tenure?

Some say it’s because he plays too much golf or doesn’t care. I don’t buy that. He wants to win as much as anybody.

I think ultimately his downfall from assembling anything better than bottom half SEC talent is he doesn’t have stud recruiters/strong assistants. Yes, we may win the quantity (I can’t even tell you how many people are on our staff) battle but not on quality. Is this because Stack doesn’t want strong personalities around?? I don’t know.

But I seriously seriously doubt that if stack gets fired that our top two assistants will be picked up by better programs in the first 48 hours like happened when Bryce got fired. (Jake D- OH State, RP- Gonzaga).

At the end of the day, lack of talent will be Stack’s downfall. The prior staff was in on big time players. We are not. I think the staff is a HUGE reason why.

The show is presented by Jody Jones, DDS.

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2023 news incoming

Got an update on what VU is offering those season ticket holders? Seeing some folks upset but I don’t have season tickets there so no clue what’s actually being offered or if folks just want to be upset.

Up 43 / 32 over Texas A&M with 8 minutes left in the 3rd.

88-79 ! Harbison 41 points !

1) Get the 1,000 applicants per state to issue Vanderbilt license plates in neighboring states + Texas and Florida. Should be easy for MS, KY, GA, AL

2) Name the VU UTjr rivalry - - should be related to either a nautical theme or something related to the Cumberland Plateau.

Joey's got the night off so I'll cover.