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7th, 3rd and 7th last 3 years, currently sit at #5 in 2025 with just 14 commits.

Gotta do better in the portal.

Just became the first guy to go 50-50 in the history of baseball today. He did it with a six-hit, three-homer, two-steal, 10-RBI game.

Nobody in baseball history who'd ever hit 50 homers in a season had more than 24 steals in that season.

We're watching the most talented player in the history of baseball. I'm not sure it's up for debate anymore. I'm not a Dodger fan but I'm getting chills watching what he's doing today.

Oh, BTW, the Dodgers clinched the playoffs and this will be the first time he's ever been.

Awesome spot. It’s a must for us every time we are in Waco. Close by to the original Noshville.

To answer a question posed earlier in the week: I wanted to get some solid info before I answered it and think I got some today. From what I was told (and source has been extremely reliable through the years), Clark Lea is not in danger of losing his job. They know they need to get their NIL situation in order (currently it doesn't seem to be, I guess that could change tomorrow, that's life with NIL these days) and they feel like they've hit on something that's paid immediate dividends with Jerry Kill and what he's brought.

Anyway, carry on.

Charlie Crème has his early bracketology out. Vandy is a nine seed. 11 SEC teams are in. Vandy is one of the last four byes in. Of The 11 SEC teams, Vandy is tied for 10th ranking. Tennessee is listed as an 11 seed. despite our improvements, the experts, don’t see us gaining much ground at this point. Admitting my bias , I think the ceiling for this team could be a 5 seed.

Rhule can coach. Amazing how a good coach can build a winner.

Ok, gonna lift the dark cloud and get back on the horse for a minute…

I think we still have a good offense. It operates better with a healthy Cole Spence and Eli Stowers, but Pavia is still a good engine for Beck’s system.

A) Are Spence and Stowers going to play?

B) Can Pavia and the boys produce points against Mizzou?

C) Are we getting any defensive players back? Our line was awful on Saturday night.

D) Is Clark Lea still our DC?

E) Can Jerry Kill be our head coach?

We have heard the excuses for not firing coaches by ADCSL. Mason, Stackhouse, Clark Lea all have had excuses made for them by ADCSL that they get more time or a "reset" because they havent had the resources needed to compete.

Does she even realize that getting them the resources to compete falls on her? She makes these excuses and doesn't even realize that in doing so, it points the finger right back at her. She really is completely clueless and over her head in so many ways. She says she loves VU, but she loves that paycheck even more or she would move aside. She knows she isn't fit for the job, but she isn't going to voluntarily move on.

… to remember one of the all-time post game interviews in program history.

I hope to see Clark Lea with this passion after the 2024 upset of Missouri.

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Sounds like it’s likely to happen along with potentially Tulane, UTSA, and USF. Vanderbilt should be trying to schedule one of these schools asap as the required power conference out of conference game.

https://sports.yahoo.com/go-west-the-next-wave-of-realignment-is-in-memphis-hands-135625431.html

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Finishing under .500 ten years in a row. Thanks Mason and Lea.

We are #16 in everything, except coaching, where we are #15 behind Mississippi States new coach.

Reality check for some of you. A lot of us know what's coming this year.

I just got the new 2024 Lindys college football magazine. Another good write up by @Chris Lee.

Every year, they have a couple of paragraphs from an anonymous SEC coach.

This year, the coach says about Vanderbilt's talent " They get good players in spots, but you have to have about 18 on offense and 18 on defense to have a solid team, and they have 8-12 total."

You just can't be competitive when you're that far behind in talent. We better hope Kill and Beck are magicians.

pretty significant to see Coach Kill seek out Clark in the postgame madness and Clark pick him up with a bear hug. Indicates how Coach Kill feels about Coach Lea (and vice versa). Don't think someone like Jerry Kill would be anything but honest in his emotions.

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I'm here until Sunday. Staying right by brick town. About a mile from the thunder arena. Any suggestions of stuff to get into or places to eat

Vanderbilt football coach Clark Lea detailed Thursday how his team fell behind in NIL early in his coaching tenure.

While Lea finally saw increased investment in NIL prior to the 2024 season, that money was mostly used to add transfers.

"We still have not engaged in the paying of high school players, and we are behind because of it," Lea said. "There's not a world anymore that exists where that's not a part of the equation."

According to Lea, in 2023 the team had access to a "minuscule" amount of NIL. That amount was set to triple in the offseason, but then doubled again in the span of a week, allowing the Commodores to invest more heavily in transfers such as quarterbacks Nate Johnson and Diego Pavia, tight end Eli Stowers, offensive linemen Chase Mitchell and Steven Losoya, linebacker/safety Randon Fontenette and pass-rushers Zaylin Wood and Khordae Sydnor.

In his first year with the program, Lea said, the team had to focus on how to get recovery shakes after practice. NIL was a long way from anyone's minds. Now, Vanderbilt has built up its infrastructure, but there's a constant demand for more in every program.

"I expect (our NIL) to probably double again," Lea said. "That still puts us somewhere in the bottom half of our league. And then with high school players involved in that too, there's addition there.

So again, we're moving forward, but we're still behind."

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sp...-football-nil-clark-lea-missouri/75292848007/