Rockytop10nessee
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The results. A good coach could get at least mediocre results there. He’s not even getting that. I watch Vandy’s primary and secondary sets, their defensive rotation, etc. They’re a poorly coached squad. Poorly coached squads have poor coaching.And Stackhouse would be fine for them. Not sure why you think he's awful.
Vandy is rock solid in baseball - they won a natty in 2014 - but honestly, I have long believed that both the SEC and Vandy would be better served by Vandy moving to the Sun Belt or something. They're at such a massive disadvantage versus the rest of the SEC in terms of facilities, financial support, and overall fanbase.
Vandy is where they are and Tennessee is where they are because of the University administrations. Randy and Donde support UT athletics and personally invest in it. Vandy....not so muchThis can’t be said enough. I’ve always said Vandy could be a player in the SEC but they don’t care enough. Then again I guess every conference has 1 program that’s bad at almost everything
Vandy is where they are and Tennessee is where they are because of the University administrations. Randy and Donde support UT athletics and personally invest in it. Vandy....not so much
There isn't any good reason why Vandy can't be a decent basketball program that gets into the tournament say, 2-3 times every 5 years. If anything, it is actually harder to be good at the sport they are good at (baseball) than basketball because in baseball there are simply many more players on a roster.
They still were exploiting it better than their competition was, though.In baseball they enjoyed the private institution exemption for need based assistance (don't remember exactly what it was called) so they were essentially able to give full rides to more players than public schools could. The NCAA has expanded that to all D1 schools so between that and NIL Vandy has been brought down a few notches in baseball.