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Tennessean: All-2000s Midstate High School Team
(by Mike Organ)

Vanderbilt is doing something right in its identifications and evaluations of players, it seems to me... it's struck me lately how many players that Vanderbilt has offered that Georgia has come along and offered a month or so later. Ethan Utley, a 2025 DL out of Ensworth, is the latest one. It's lik...

London Humphreys knows these next few weeks will be his last as a track and field star. His future will be in college football with Vanderbilt as a wide receiver. But maybe it's OK to say the three-sport athlete at CPA is a track kid at heart. "Selfishly I'd like to see him keep it going,"...

The NFL Academy is an initiative in London England that takes high-school age young men with football talent, develops them, and allows them to market their skills to American high schools and colleges. Darren Agu is a product of it. [img=https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1577420940912328705/167...

Brycen Coleman sat down for an interview about his commitment... worth a listen!

Wright appeared to be the second-team QB (to Will Rogers) in Mississippi State's spring game. He QB'd one of the two squads, and his team lost to the Rogers-led team 17-7. Wright had a 2-yard run for his team's only score. It remains to be seen how much PT Wright can get this year behind the solid s...

Dallas-Highland Park is becoming a pipeline for Vandy... Jackson Heis, a senior WR from the private school, has announced he will be attending Vandy in the fall and playing football (presumably as a walk-on; VU can't acknowledge this until he enrolls). Heis had previously announced he would be enrol...

Five commitments are in for the class of 2024. Other prospects are seeing the graphic below, along with the question: Who will be next?

First time I've heard it mentioned that Worship might be a Day 3 draft pick...

https://titanswire.usatoday.com/2023/04 ... l-pro-day/

"The Baptists allow more dancing than Earl did after that touchdown." --Bobby Johnson

Confirmed…

He reportedly runs a 4.48 40 and is a multisport star at his high school. (Folks, you will take as many athletes with this combination of size and speed as you can find, and figure out what to do with them later.) Had offers from Minnesota, Boston College, East Carolina, and a number smaller and aca...

A.J. Swann will take No. 5, which is a number of special significance to him.

Fred Pancoast obituary

Tennessean story on Fred Pancoast

VUCommodores story

C.J. Taylor, who was named Vandy's defensive player of the year in 2022, will switch jersey numbers from No. 13 to No. 1 in 2023, I am told, in honor of his late brother.

Another thing that was disappointing: there were at least three times when defensive players got their hands on poorly thrown passes, but couldn't hang on for the interception. De'Rickey Wright had the defense's one interception, but there probably should have been three others.

Quarterback.