Anchor Drop, July 8, 2021: 58 Days to Kickoff

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We are now 58 days away from Vanderbilt football’s season opener against East Tennessee State. 58 for the Commodores is long snapper Wesley Schelling. The 6’5”, 245-pound sophomore (redshirt freshman) from nearby Pearl-Cohn High School appeared in one game for Vanderbilt last year, executing all of the long snaps at Missouri.

And, the basketball team got some very big news last night: Scotty Pippen Jr. has elected to return for his junior year. Pippen was a First-Team All-SEC selection as a sophomore after averaging 20.8 ppg, second only to LSU’s Cameron Thomas. So Vanderbilt’s prospects go from probably being…