Somehow I don’t think four straight seasons of living in the SEC cellar is exactly what the Vanderbilt administration had in mind when they pushed out Kevin Stallings five years ago.
Stallings had been successful and was respected for his offensive basketball acumen while taking Vandy to 7 NCAA tournament appearances over 17 years, 6 of those over the last 10. But despite making the tournament in his last season, the message was a little stale and Stallings’, uh — let’s just say — prickly personality wore thin in Nashville. So this isn’t to say the move was unwarranted, but herein lies the risk with changing coaches— once you open the bad you never know how it’s going to turn out.