Love him or hate him, his take is interesting. Personally, I think he is right. As a long-time season ticket holder, I feel the hostage factor.
I think there's an element of Stockholm Syndrome with Vanderbilt, which is a top half SEC basketball job, could do so much better than Stallings. He's the definition of a mediocre coach and he's slowly strangled the life out of Memorial Gym.
Stallings has been at Vandy for 16 seasons. During that time he has a losing record in SEC basketball games. He's 122-134. Can you think of any other coach in SEC history who has been able to stay as head coach for either football or basketball for 15 years or more and have a losing record in the conference? I mean, that's crazy.
In the past eight years Stallings has won just one NCAA tournament game. A single game!
I think there's an element of Stockholm Syndrome with Vanderbilt, which is a top half SEC basketball job, could do so much better than Stallings. He's the definition of a mediocre coach and he's slowly strangled the life out of Memorial Gym.
Stallings has been at Vandy for 16 seasons. During that time he has a losing record in SEC basketball games. He's 122-134. Can you think of any other coach in SEC history who has been able to stay as head coach for either football or basketball for 15 years or more and have a losing record in the conference? I mean, that's crazy.
In the past eight years Stallings has won just one NCAA tournament game. A single game!
