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I feel like there's a gray area between "pre-internet era" and "modern era." Chris Young and Jimmy Williams were both huge recruits in the mid-to-late 1990s. Is that pre-internet? I know the internet was around then, but was it as influential pre-social media? Or are they consid...

Mitch Light writes a recruiting piece in the Athletic about Vandy's all-time biggest signee, biggest bust, most influential recruit, and best developmental story in school history. All his conclusions are debatable of course, but I'd say he's pretty on target with his selections. The Athletic (premi...

In Larry Black Jr.'s post, you get an early glimpse of Demarion Thomas and Ted Gregoire, the two freshmen Vandy brought in to shore up the defensive line, and whom they are very excited about. (The other photo is of Bradley Mann, who took a medical redshirt last season.) It's exciting to see them on...

Johann Cardenas, a 6-0, 215 running back from Houston-St. Thomas Catholic, Texas, will be among several making official visits this weekend. He claims to run a 4.47 40; I think one or more of the rating services has him at four stars. Vandy signed three running backs in last year's class, all from T...

Several months ago Clark Lea appeared on Bronco Mendenhall's podcast "Head Coach U", and it was one of the best interviews anyone has ever done with him. In a more recent episode Mendenhall interviews James Franklin and asks him about leaving the Vanderbilt job for Penn State. Franklin giv...

P.S. It was about this time last year, in June, that I visited the Wisconsin campus. THIS TIME of year, it's a very beautiful and impressive place, right on the lake, with gorgeous weather. But recruits get caught up in that and don't think about what it's going to be like in December and January.

Luke Fickell, the former Cincinnati coach who took the job at Wisconsin, is off to a great start with recruiting for the Badgers. This week he got commitments from two recruits Vandy very much would like to have had... Hank Weber of Brentwood Academy is one of the top DL recruits in the midstate. Ry...

White plays wide receiver and free safety at Parkview HS in Lilburn, GA, a huge Gwinnett County school with great tradition that has produced a number of Vandy players in the past. I see no evidence on Twitter that he has committed... it may be that he deleted the tweet. It's possible that there may...

And here are the new freshman guys who will be blocking for them... about 1,500 pounds of fresh beef... From left: Cooper Starks (Girard, Ill.); Barrett Maddox (Clinton, Tenn.); OL Coach A.J. Blazek; Misael Sandoval (San Diego, Cal.); Keegan Wechsler (Frisco, Tex.); Anthony Miles (Birmingham). [img=...

RB's Coach Jayden Everett posted this photo of the two newest Vandy running backs, who are now on campus taking summer classes. From left: OC Joey Lynch; RB A.J. Newberry (Grand Prairie, TX); RBs Coach Jayden Everett; RB Deago Benson (Midlothian, TX). [A third freshman running back from Texas, Sedri...

This year it's Hawaii that will have to deal with the jet lag. There are five hours' difference between Nashville and Honolulu, so for them it will be like playing at 1:30 pm, but it messes with your eating schedule and body clock. It will be interesting to see how Hawaii deals with all that.

I think the Wake Forest time will be the earliest game in Vanderbilt football history... it will be on the ACC Network, and I think they try to televise four games in a day sometimes... Three of the four are at night, and the other starts right after breakfast, so it could be worse... Vandy will avo...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxZGn-mWABkXRSG?format=jpg&name=small Vandy's summer football camps get underway this Sunday, and there will be five of them in the month of June. It's an important time in the coaches' calendar. A number of prospects use this time to make their official visits, and ...

Tom Lemming was in Nashville over the weekend to scout out 2025 prospects. Quite a few were at Lipscomb Academy, CPA, and Ensworth and have been on already on Vandy's radar for a long time. But Lemming pointed out one name I hadn't heard mentioned... Jon Adair is a 6-5 280 left tackle at Lipscomb Ac...

One coach has called him "the best athlete in the state of Tennessee." VU football signee London Humphreys, now a graduated senior from CPA, capped off his four-sport athletic career by winning two events at the Division II-AA state meet at MTSU, and placing in two others. Here were his re...

Tennessean (premium): Tax records reveal Clark Lea's Vanderbilt football salary, Derek Mason's severance by Aria Gerson You should keep in mind, 2021 was Coach Lea's first year, and he had no prior coaching experience. For comparison's sake, here's an article listing what other SEC coaches made in ...

Yo Don, looks like the board now recognizes Apple podcast links, which is great, but I don't see how you would access them or make them play based on how it presents it above.